These are just a few of the questions that keep going around and around in a never ending debate.  Religions try desperately to maintain their position in the face of a growing body of scientific evidence against God and creation.  Scientists fight to educate the public against alternative therapy and medicines.  Thousands of people claim to have seen UFOs and yet our search for life on other planets has yielded nothing.  With so many conflicting religious, scientific and personal views, defining one model to describe life and the universe would appear an impossible task, but that is exactly what David Rippenburn has achieved in this book.

Approaching the problem from the perspective of a systems analyst, Rippenburn strips away any misconceptions we may have about the various beliefs before moving on to take a layman's look at life's processes.  Having presented arguments on both sides of the big debate between creationists and evolutionists, Rippenburn introduces Psychl as the hypothetical model underlying our perception of everything real, then returns to apply the model to popular theories and beliefs.