💥Why you should read my book

Twenty-five years ago, as I was getting my masters in mathematics and wondering what to research further, I was surprised to find an unsolved puzzle about infinity at the heart of modern mathematics. Some of my first thoughts were published in philosophy journals, so I went on to do a masters in philosophy. I got it with distinction, and by thinking laterally as well as logically, I eventually found the solution that academics would not find in a hundred years. I decided to write my discovery up for a general reader with no background in philosophy, logic or mathematics, and five years later I had it down to 25,000 words.

In my book I describe and solve logical puzzles, because the only perfectly logical solution to one of the puzzles—that puzzle about infinity—is only a logical possibility if there is a logical kind of God. In short, my book amounts to a perfectly logical proof that there is such a God.

      A hundred years ago, the mathematical puzzle was proving to be so puzzling that mathematicians translated the whole of mathematics into a new "language" (akin to a programming language) in order to lose it in that translation. And that sea-change to academic mathematics trickled down to school mathematics in the form of the new math. Which you may have heard of, because it was quite controversial fifty years ago. The mathematicians’ responses were logical enough, but this puzzle is essentially a logical puzzle. And philosophers like Bertrand Russell responded to it by modernizing logic.

      For a hundred years, scientific philosophers have been treating logical thinking as though it was a kind of computing: Something that might be done better on a computer. By explaining these logical puzzles properly, my book will revitalize philosophy. My book may also help to defuse America’s "culture war" by making logic more interesting to religious people while simultaneously showing that atheism is not really very scientific. And because scientific research will progress in directions that are more realistic as a result of my book, my book could even herald the next scientific revolution. And of course, a lot of people will find it helpful to know that there is a reasonable sort of God.