Bill Myers, author of The God Hater, is an accomplished author, producer, director, screenwriter, and more. He has written books for every age–adults, teens and children. According to an official bio, his work has won more than 60 national and international awards, including the C.S. Lewis Honor Award for his teen series Forbidden Doors.

McGee and Me, a Bill Myers DVD and book series, has sold 4.5 million copies, won 40 Gold and Platinum awards and has been aired on ABC as well as in 80 countries. His My Life As… series has sold 2.1 million copies. He has written, directed and done voice work for Focus on the Family’s Adventures in Odyssey radio series and is the voice of Jesus in Zondervan’s NIV Audio Bible. Nearly all of Myers’ children’s book series have made the bestseller list, as well as seven of his adult novels.

Bill Myers holds a degree in Theater Arts from the University of Washington and an honorary doctorate from the Theological Institute of Nimes, France, where he taught.

On this final day of the CSFF blog tour of The God Hater, I encourage you to check out what the other CSFF bloggers have to say. Links can be found in the sidebar to the right.

For more information, you can find Bill Myers on the web at:
http://www.thegodhater.com/ and http://www.billmyers.com.

His Facebook page is:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bill-Myers/44983396181

The God Hater by Bill Myers
Publisher: Howard Books
Publishing Date: September 28, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1439153260
List Price: $14.99

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An atheistic philosophy professor, befriended by a Christian microbiologist, pulled into a secret artificial intelligence project by his brilliant computer programmer brother.

This is the frame upon which The God Hater is built.

Nicolas Mackenzie is a selfish, skeptical old curmudgeon of a philosophy professor who turned his back on God after the death of his son and wife. His only two friends in the world are Aristotle, his loyal golden retriever, and Annie, a fellow university professor who seems to understand him better than anyone else. When his taxi is commandeered by a stranger who claims to be a U.S. Homeland Security agent, Mackenzie’s world is turned upside down, never to be the same again.

Annie Brooks, professor of microbiology at UC Santa Barbara, found a friend in Mackenzie when she was shunned by her Christian friends for becoming an unwed mother. Now against all odds, Annie mothers her atheist friend who has found a soft spot in his heart for Rusty, her five-year-old son. As friends and colleagues, Annie and Mackenzie keep a bantering rivalry going at the university that pits the philosophy professor’s atheistic ideology against Annie’s belief that the universe was not formed randomly but by the hand of an intelligent Creator. Individually, Mackenzie seeks to destroy the faith of every Christian student who enters his class while Annie makes sure to point out to her students how incredibly improbable the theory of random evolution is. After hearing of Mackenzie’s wild taxi ride and then finding herself being shadowed by unknown persons, Annie finds a protector and confidant in handsome Homeland Security Agent Matthew Hostetler. Is it possible that he is attracted to her as she is to him?

Travis Mackenzie is the polar opposite of his brother Nicholas. Not only is he an irresponsible shifter, he’s also a brilliant computer programmer working on a secret project, something Nicholas–someone who doesn’t use even a telephone at home–cannot understand. When Annie finds several identical cryptic e-mails on her home computer, she wonders if Travis is trying to contact his long-lost brother. When Mackenzie disappears after seeing the notes, the hunt is on as Annie tries to find out what has happened to her dear friend.

I found that the book’s greatest strength lies in the development of these diverse characters. Bill Myers has created an unlikely trio of people who are not only accomplished professionals in each of their fields, but who are also as different from each other as different can be. Not only are Nicolas and Travis opposites, so are Nicolas and Annie. While it is not uncommon to find an atheist philosophy professor at a public university, it is not so common to find a microbiologist academician who eschews her colleagues by promoting belief in universe creation by intelligent design.

Come back tomorrow for my third and final post in the three-day CSFF blog tour of The God Hater. Meanwhile, I encourage you to check out what the other CSFF bloggers have to say about this thought-provoking book. Links are found in the sidebar to the right.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Disclosure of Material Connection: At times, some of the links in my posts are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

“Granted, there were further atrocities, on both sides–but basically we’re talking two million killings over the entire history of Western civilization due to religion, versus a hundred and thirty-four million in just seventy years based upon atheistic systems.” She reached for the door. “You tell me which is more toxic, Professor: faith or atheism.”

Nicholas Mackenzie hates God with a passion rivaled only by religious zealots–a passion that makes this philosophy professor determined to declare the nonexistence of God as loudly as he can, particularly to incoming freshman who have been raised with “delusions” regarding the existence of a righteous Creator.

Bill Myers’ latest book, The God Hater, is an adult suspense thriller based on artificial intelligence with a faith-based twist. Unlike Hal in the movie 2001, the computer in The God Hater is not sentient, but the programmers have discovered how to create personas within the software who are.

Imagine if we could build a computer program that could create identities who could think for themselves in a world duplicate to ours. What if these personas were given human personalities that included everything except spirituality? The result would be the creation of a world that is atheistic by default. Would that system fail or succeed?

Professor Mackenzie is about to find out.

This post is the first of three posts written in conjunction with this month’s Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy Blog Tour. Come back tomorrow for a discussion of the vibrant personalities found in The God Hater.

Meanwhile, I encourage you to check out what the other CSFF bloggers have to say about this thought-provoking book. Links are found in the sidebar to the right.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned above for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Disclosure of Material Connection: At times, some of the links in my posts are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”