The author takes on the toughest questions about the nature of existence:
• Why is there something rather than nothing? • Why is there this particular something? • What exactly is this something? • Why is this something governed by rules? • What are we to make of the human experience? • How can the human experience help to answer other existential questions? • Does God exist?
And, on the basis of fact and through the application of reason, he ruthlessly dissects each issue to provide the best available answers. He invites the reader to join him on a journey. What do you need? An open mind. A willingness to accept conclusions if they are clearly based on facts and reason, even if the conclusions are counter-intuitive.
He promises there will be nothing complicated as you move forward. It's a journey anyone can take. Only those, whose minds are closed will fall by the wayside.
Anyone who is hoping they will find absolute truth, whatever that means, will be disappointed. As you progress, the author concedes, you will have to make compromises at every stage. But, the journey is still worthwhile because, at the end, although you won't have absolute truth, you will have come as close to it as is possible.
And, you will have avoided the irrational excesses of the extremists on either side of the existential debate.
