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This book offers scholars, administrators and the broader public an original proposal for the humanities. It argues that these disciplines, while serving society, are intrinsic to our humanity. It offers new bold ideas about how to think with greater humanistic coherence.

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Creation stories are universal and have been told through the ages. They express what moved people, what excited them, hurt them, made them feel grateful. Wonder about existence, awareness of dependence upon forces beyond our control, responsibility: these themes are now often articulated in the context of the scientific view of our world, from the Big Bang to the present, "from nothing until now." Presenting a brief and accessible overview of...

Willem Drees argues that religion and morality are to be understood as rooted in our evolutionary past and neurophysiological constitution.

Can one call nature 'evil'? Or is life a matter of eating and being eaten, where value judgments should not be applied? Is nature beautiful? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Scientists often pretend that their disciplines only describe and analyze natural processes in factual terms, without making evaluative statements regarding reality. However, scientists may also be driven by the beauty of that which they study. Or they may be appal...

This is a discussion of the Big Bang in which the arguments of scientific and biblical theories are scrutinised. Drees shows how the two interpretations may be related, but contends that ultimately they serve different purposes, the one to explain and describe, the other to prophesy.

Willem Drees argues that religion and morality are to be understood as rooted in our evolutionary past and neurophysiological constitution.

This brief and accessible overview of contemporary scientific thought, assesses the religious and philosophical impact of scientific developments on our understanding of evolution and the natural world.

Willem Drees argues that scientific understanding leaves open certain ultimate questions & thus allows for belief in a creator, but also for religious naturalism or serious agnosticism.

Can one call nature 'evil'? Or is life a matter of eating and being eaten, where value judgments should not be applied? Is nature beautiful? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Scientists often pretend that their disciplines only describe and analyze natural processes in factual terms, without making evaluative statements regarding reality. However, scientists may also be driven by the beauty of that which they study. Or they may be appal...