It often seems today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the 20th century leave little room for God. Swinburne uses the methods of scientific reasoning to argue that the best answers to these questions are given by the existence of God.
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A medical historian narrates the last century of scientific struggle against an enduring enemy: deadly contagious disease. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite ...
The text draws upon philosophy, ethnography, literature and natural science to suggest that life and death are best understood not in opposition, but as continuous tendencies acting upon one another. Austin Locke argues that the failure to give nuanced consideration to the connections between the living and nonliving devalues both life and death.
