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Review title: Well-written, but muddled thinking
Product review: I have to respectfully disagree with some other reviewers regarding this book. The author attempts to achieve balance, but simply ends up presenting many differing points of view, some of which are obviously flawed, logically or theologically inconsistent, and simply not worthy of our attention. (No, I'm not talking about the actions of the fundamentalists.) For example, one of the first dialogues with Hallus is a clear example of applying the anthropic (hmm, probably not the best term in this case) principle to science in an inappropriate manner: [Human]life has a purpose, life entails certain antecedent conditions, those conditions must have existed by design, "design" entails a designer, and therefore there is a designer who has a purpose for life. A bit tautological and unworthy of an "advanced" race.The book is well-written, however, and the characters are great.
