Sometimes it seems as if nothing changes in the field of philosophy.  The fundamental questions remain the same.  What is the purpose of life?  Where do good and evil come from?  Why are we here?  Hundreds of religions attempt to answer these same questions.  Even the answers put forth by ancient philosophers thousands of years ago are still studied today.  But given the explosive emergence of new knowledge in the last couple of centuries, do those ancient answers still stand up?  Don't the fundamental questions deserve to be re-examined in the light of this incredible landscape of new knowledge? Life!, by Martin G. Walker, does exactly that.  And not surprisingly, the answers do change.  Human prejudices melt away and the answers become simpler, though arguably less satisfying to the always-hungry human ego.  But the scientific age has proven the worth of objective analysis, and Martin Walker is not afraid to pursue philosophy from this new vantage point.  The results are satisfying in a new way, revealing where our egos have led us astray in our thinking and how the fundamental questions are indeed related to the fundamentals of physics and chemistry so recently discovered.  Everything is related and connected, but for reasons quite different from the mysterious ramblings offered up by the modern spiritualist.  People all over the world have the same basic need to answer the fundamental questions.  Life! provides a modern perspective with the potential to expand your mind.