Does life have meaning? Is evolution true? Do spirits exist? These are the issues argued in
the three lively debates transcribed in this volume. The featured speakers include: Frank Harris,
outspoken journalist, biographer, novelist, and playwright; rationalist Percy Ward; anti-evolutionist
George McCready Price; Joseph McCabe ex-priest and "the world's greatest scholar"; and
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and defender of spiritualism. All the issues
covered in these classic exchanges are still current and hotly debated: personal immortality
versus finitude and death as the fate of humankind; evolution versus creationsim and rational
skepticism versus belief in the paranormal. All the combatants make forceful case for thier own
side of the issue; each debate will engage and delight the reader.ISBN 0-87975-828-7
