Lauren Smith: Why did you write this book? 

The Numious Legacy

Lauren Smith: What beliefs do you feel this book dispels?

Adair Butchins: It describes how the effect of the Copernican Revolution in the seventeenth century has steadily undermined the basic structure of the three great monotheistic religions of our day, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, especially with respect to their eschatological concepts. The Eastern religions, being less anthropomorphic, are less affected.

 Lauren Smith: How much research went into writing this book?

Adair Butchins: Three years intense research into various religions and the corresponding literature in addition to my own background as a D. Phil in Astrophysics.

Lauren Smith: Who do you feel needs to read this book and Why?

Adair Butchins: This book is aimed at the intelligent reader, curious about our place in the universe, the reader of such books on popular astronomy and cosmology as Stephen Hawking's best selling book 'A Brief History of Time' and Penrose's 'The Emperor's New Mind.'

In general, the readers of these books are interested not only in the science presented but in a further question. Where does this leave religion? Most scientists tend to shy away from religion as a very contentious subject, which of course it is. On the other hand, there are those firm believers, scientists or otherwise, who write religious apologies in the scientific idiom; for instance, Schroeder's 'Genesis and the Big Bang' and Peacock's 'A brief History of Eternity.'