What if belief was a sample-and truth, the unknowable population?A World Connected Within the Bounds of Interpretation is a bold, interdisciplinary exploration of faith, science, and meaning. Engineer and thinker Lawrence Morris weaves together theology, statistics, philosophy, and personal memoir to ask one fundamental question: can spiritual truth be approached the same way we approach data?Drawing on experiences ranging from data science at NYU Stern to doctrinal questio...

A student asked:I have heard the phrase "listening to the book in all three centers" and I am not clear on how it can be done.Orage:It isn't a matter of how it can be done, but of understanding what it means and then wishing to hear the book that way. Remember how you listened to stories you heard when you were a child, so that you participated, your hair stood on end and your eyes shone or you wept? That is readi...

The Time Ship_SynopsisDr. Brian Miller, a physicist is investigating what might be a buried ship along with the military and NASA. During the investigation, he accidentally triggers a time travel mechanism designed for ultra-long distance communications.He discovers he's landed in his 18 year old body, but the original occupant is still present. In the process of visiting his young self he gives himself the courage he needs to pursue the one girl he has always loved and save...

Officer Paul Lee has been on the Waverly police force his entire working life. Now, nearing retirement, he finds he's lived a life filled with regrets.Having seen the worst that humanity has to offer, he lives in fear and distrust. As a result, he is not liking the man he's become.In the course of a murder investigation, he learns of an experimental drug that reverses aging. While collecting evidence, he gives in to his hope for a new life and steals some of the tablets, hopi...

JR Ferguson is a retired farmer. His acreage has been leased to a young couple he once rescued from the muddy access road that runs through his cornfield. As a result, he examines the road after every heavy rain both for stranded lovers and to examine the roads condition.One day he finds trash in the form of various kinds of medication bottles strewn on the side of the road. With his boots sinking in the soft mud, he collects the litter and returns with the bottles some of which are...

After a tornado, Jason is trapped with his son for two years in the cellar of their new home. Once rescued they discover that a horrible virus has decimated the planet leaving in it's wake only children and women. Every grown man at or beyond puberty died within weeks of the outbreak.Jason, who previously worked at the Center for Disease Control makes it his mission to find the cure knowing that both he and his son lacked the immunity the young boys acquired during the outbreak.

Due to a side effect of a medication taken in an experimental drug trial, four people with dramatically different backgrounds regain their youth.After a brutal murder, only two remain. The remaining couple begin new lives—not knowing the killer is looking for them.After a series of self-defense killings, Mark Aaron is arrested for murder.Will all the results of their efforts be destroyed when they're forced to reveal their tale to the police?

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate“[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra KleinFor most of hu...

If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what’s true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without complex jargon. A complete worldview is presented and defended, covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics. Topics include free will, the nature of the universe, the meaning...

Part I asks: Is evolving Nature all there is self-generated, self-sustaining, self-contained? Are human beings, as the topmost outgrowth of Nature, responsible to none other but themselves? That is the stance of naturalist and atheist Richard Dawkins. Or is evolving reality derived from, and dependent on, a transcendent Source and Destiny, to whom humans are accountable and whose benevolence reaches out to humans as persons because humans are persons? That is the conviction of the Christia...

Unlike many books about the afterlife, Life after Death makes no appeal to religious faith, divine revelation, or sacred texts. Drawing on some of the most powerful theories and trends in physics, evolutionary biology, science, philosophy, and psychology, D'Souza shows why the atheist critique of immortality is irrational. It is not only reasonable to believe in life after death; it is also beneficial. Such a belief gives depth and significance to this life, a path to happiness, a...

In this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.