Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad things happen at all? Do things happen for a reason? Or, is all of life just an inexplicable, chaotic crapshoot? And, while we're at it, what exactly is the point of life, anyway? We've struggled to answer these questions ever since the capacity to pose them first popped into our heads. The results have ranged from the philosophical to the religious to the laughably superstitious. No one definitively knows the answers, of course, despite our seemingly inexhaustible proclivity for analyzing them, debating them, and even violently dispatching...