Here's a new story beginning that starts what I think is a new concept in science fiction, at least I haven't read it before, and that's the ability to communicate across the universe instantaneously.  This is something that has bothered me since I was around 10 years old...why can't we talk to whomever is out there on planets just like ours?  The answer to communicating must be at our very fingertips.  I may be have come up with the answer in this story.   If you like it and want to see the rest of the story, email me or leave a comment.  Ted

The God Model

By Ted Bailey

Race Rankin stole away with his favorite coffee cup to the living room to seek out his favorite overstuffed chair to read the Internet news.  It was full of the same old stories for the past six months, just different angles to keep it interesting. 

In them, God was suddenly being revealed, and it wasn’t a happy scene.  Race took a cautious sip from his cup, set it down on the coffee table, and picked up the reader.  The home page of the Jackson Hourly News, June 6, 2055, 5:00 AM Pacific Time, flashed on the screen, preset to Race’s exacting reading settings.

“Recent discoveries in the new field of space archeology have led to another controversy in the evolution-creation debate:  It’s no longer the question of is there a God, but more to the point of who is God?”

Oh, this ought to be good, he thought to himself, taking a sip of his coffee.  Ever since the data started pouring in, the news was dominated by speculations of alien gods seeding Earth with humans some 2 million years ago, not once, but possibly several times.  The controversy between the religious groups and the scientists was immense.

Race continued reading. 

“The stronger case for the creation side of the coin is even more controversial than the original God theory, since records of human modeling continue to be downloaded from the Galactic Database as the data flows, seemingly unending through the radio astronomical systems around the world.” 

“The Human Model, as it is being called more by the journalists for lack of a better name, is the science of creating humans on certain types of planets after the terra-forming process has been completed, which is phenomenal in itself.”

“To make it worse, finding evidence of super-intelligence in the universe threatens the convictions of both the scientific and the religious communities, making them unusually quiet, lately. 

“The lack of an argument has the press wondering which side will take credit for the answers once representatives from both sides of the fence closely examine the results in today’s closed-door Scientific-Religion Discovery Committee (SRDC) meeting.”

Race smiled to himself at the thought of the religious community having to face the scientists in that meeting.  He’d pay admission to watch if it was allowed.

Behind closed doors… Why is that?  It’s the fear factor of governing bodies across the world that they’ll lose their power to the knowledge of the people, he thought.  He’d read enough. 

He flipped the reader Frisbee-style to the sofa and headed to the kitchen for another cup of coffee.