About the author: quoting from the book's dust jacket: "Roy Abraham Varghese is editor of the best-selling "Cosmos, Bios, Theos". . .[One of his books] won a 1996 Templeton Book Prize for Outstanding Books in Science and Natural Theology. Varghese was a panelist at the science and religion forum in the Parliament of World Religions held in Chicago in 1993 and an invitee and participant in the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders held at the United Nations in August 2000." About the book, Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the laser, said of this work, "Varghese explores the basic and critical questions we face concerning this remarkable and wonderful universe. Why are we here? Where are we going? This is no doctrinaire treatise, but a sensitive, profound and clear discussion of the important issues of our universe and our existences, including questions, answers, and uncertainties. It is written with a deep understanding of philosophy, spirituality, and the complex science involved, yet expressed in a way which is interesting and very understandable to the non-specialist."