Much of the novel's action takes place deep inside the arcane world of the Vatican, and yes, some of the factual information revealed there is startling, but I think most people understand that an organization as old and powerful as the Vatican could not possibly have risen to power without acquiring a few skeletons in their closets. The final message of the novel, though, without a doubt, is a positive one. People ask me which do I think will ultimately win the war. That's a difficult question because in many ways I see science and religion as the same thing. Both are manifestations of man's quest to understand the divine.
Religion savors the questions while science savors the quest for answers.
Science and religion seem to be two different languages attempting to tell the same story, and yet the battle between them has been raging for centuries and continues today. The war in our schools over whether to teach Creationism or Darwinism is a perfect example. We live in an exciting era, though, because for the first time in human history, the line between science and religion is starting to blur. Buddhist monks are reading physics books and learning about experiments that confirm what they have believed in their hearts for centuries and have been unable to quantify. For the launch of the book, I wanted to do something different.