WHY

Every child asks it before they can tie their shoes: Why? Most of us never stop asking. We only trade the small questions for larger ones-until we reach the question behind them all: Why is there something rather than nothing? WHY descends that question like a ladder, one rung at a time. Why is there a universe? Why is there life? Why is there a "you" who can ask? Why are good and evil real? Why do pain and death exist? Is there a future-and why does any of this matter? At every rung, Samuel D. Thomas Sr. gives the strongest available scientific and philosophical answers a fair hearing. He examines the Big Bang, fine-tuning, the origin of life, consciousness, morality, suffering, death, the future of the universe, and the human search for meaning. Then he opens the King James Bible and lets Scripture answer each question in its own words. Clear, direct, and unwilling to settle for a shrug, WHY follows the evidence to the bottom of the ladder: the God who spoke the first word, gave life its meaning, entered human suffering, defeated death, and still invites the questioner to know Him. For readers of Christian apologetics, biblical worldview, science-and-faith discussions, and books about life's deepest questions, WHY offers a single connected journey from the existence of the universe to the personal question no reader can avoid.