ARE YOU MAKING OUT A CASE FOR SCIENCE AS OPPOSED TO CREATIONISM OR INTELLIGENT DESIGN?

YOU USE POETRY AND VERSE QUITE EXTENSIVELY. WHAT WAS YOUR THINKING AROUND THIS?

THAT SOUNDS AS IF YOU’RE DOING A 180°?

YOU SPOKE EARLIER OF A TRILOGY. DOES THIS IMPLY THAT FURTHER BOOKS IN THIS VEIN ARE ENVISAGED?

WHAT WILL YOU REPLACE RELIGION WITH IF YOU COULD?

SOME PROPHETS ARE SAID TO HAVE PREDICTED THAT SOMEONE WILL ATTACK ALL RELIGIONS AND THAT THIS WILL SIGNAL THE ‘END OF TIMES’. DID YOU WRITE YOUR BOOK

RELIGIONISTS COULD LABEL YOU AS THE ULTIMATE ANTI-CHRIST. ARE YOU?

THE APOCALYPSE SCENARIO WAS INDEED QUITE STARTLING AND DRAMATIC. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS COULD HAPPEN, OR HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST?

YOUR MAIN CHARACTERS IN BOTH ERAS ARE WOMEN. WHY?

YOUR BOOK WAS WRITTEN IN AN INTERESTING MANNER, SOMETIMES CONFUSING IN ITS STRUCTURE. WHY DID YOU USE THIS APPROACH?

YOUR COMMENTS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL AID AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POOR COUNTRIES IS INTERESTING. WHAT QUALIFIES YOU TO COMMENT ON THIS?

THE SO-CALLED ‘MORALITY’ YOU REFER TO IS QUITE CONTENTIOUS AND SEEMS TO FLY IN THE FACE OF MODERN ALTRUISM AND COOPERATION.

YOU ALSO MAKE THE POINT THAT POLITICAL LEADERS USE MYSTICISM TO MISLEAD AND MANIPULATE THEIR PEOPLE. ARE YOU SAYING THAT ALL POLITICIANS ARE GUILTY OF

IS YOUR BOOK AND THEREFORE YOU, NOT BLASPHEMOUS?

BUT IF THIS IS SO, ARE YOU NOT FUNDAMENTALLY INCORRECT BY SAYING THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BELIEVE AND NOT BE LOYAL TO THEIR PARTICULAR DIETIES?

CHARISMATIC PREACHERS AND CHURCH LEADERS ARE ABLE TO GATHER HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF FOLLOWERS IN PRAYER AND WORSHIP. HOW MANY DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD

YOU ATTACK INSTITUTIONALISED RELIGIONS GENERALLY, DESPITE THE REALITY THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL OPPOSE YOUR VIEWS AND INDEED REJECT YOUR PHILOSOPHY

DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?

ISN’T VERY ARROGANT TO STATE THAT RELIGIONISTS DON’T THINK? MANY RELIGIONISTS ARE KNOWN TO BE WRITERS, PHILOSOPHERS, RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS EVEN.

WHO ARE YOU EXPECTING TO READ THIS BOOK?

AREN’T YOU USING MYSTICISM YOURSELF; AREN’T YOU THE ULTIMATE MASTER MYSTIC?

DID MOSES LIE AND HOW DO YOU PROVE THIS?

THE TITLE IS VERY PROVOCATIVE, WAS THIS INTENTIONAL?

WHY DID YOU WRITE THE BOOK?