God, Chance & Necessity

" 'God, Chance & Necessity' is Ward's considered reply to those who insist on conflating their science with a materialist metaphysics....The nobler forms of religious belief matter to Professor Wad, because they offer release from the bondage of egotism. There is no reason, moreover, why the sciences, however proficient they may be in explaining the world in terms of efficient causation, need exclude belief in a God whose purposes can be recognized in the opportunities for goodness, beauty, and truth that have arisen through the emergence of human consciousness...The ultimate difference between Ward and his opponents consists in the fact that, in his construction, the Cosmic whole includes the God of Anselm in all its alleged simplicity--that Being than which nothing greater, or more desirable, can be conceived or imagined."Ward, Keith is the author of 'God, Chance & Necessity', published 1996 under ISBN 9781851681167 and ISBN 1851681167.