In this chapter I introduce the character Jeff Saunderson. I back up several hours to before the alien unveiling to show the tension in the world, which is analogous to the tension that was building in my mind before my epiphany, the sudden realization that the logical extension of the theory of evolution is that highly advanced alien beings interacted with ancient man and created all our religions and beliefs about God. In the story, Jeff is attacked by a well-known customer that has become possessed by an alien, but just before the attack, Jeff is told not to believe any aliens that might unveil and deny the existence of God. This attack is very confusing to Jeff, picturing my own confusion in life prior to my epiphany, as human teachers and scientists I know and respect both great and small have pretty much become universally possessed by evolutionary dogma (pictured by an alien possessing Clarence) yet deny any validity to religion or a belief in God. You could say that the Clarence-alien hybrid pictures my intuition warning me that scientists who deny any validity to the concept of God are being disingenuous. Why? Because scientists' evolutionary theory holds room for a God and or gods! Logically, the "God(s)" of scientific evolutionary theory must be extra-terrestrial being(s) that have advanced sufficiently to become something like pure energy that has consciousness and no need of a physical body. Perhaps this energy-thought being can manipulate the very fabric of space-time and can pretty much do anything one can imagine a "God" could do, and appear in any form it so desires. Most scientists waffle at this idea, yet it is plausible if you really believe in evolution. I mean, really, who can predict what the final evolved state might be for mankind millions of years from now (assuming we find some way to co-exist and not destroy ourselves)? Why do scientists deny that they believe in some sort of "God", even if it's just a highly evolved alien? Then Jeff is rescued by a human woman named Monica, who subsequently disappears. He reasons he is either crazy or he imagined her, a picture of me questioning my own sanity prior to my epiphany. Could I really be on to something that both the scientists and religionists seem unable to comprehend? Could there be a way to merge both faith and science? My subconscious started to work on this idea with intensity, building to "the unveiling" later in Chapter One. Then Jeff's wife Valerie talks to him on the phone and confirms that millions have disappeared all over the world, which is analogous to my starting to realize there is something more going on here. There must be a true answer to this dilemma. Keep reading and you'll see indeed there is. |