Willem Drees - The Mystery of Existence

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If all that exists—everything imaginable, physical and nonphysical—is ‘something’. Why is there ‘something’ rather than ‘nothing’? Wouldn’t ‘nothing’ be simpler than any sort of ‘something’? It’s a haunting wonderment. It’s the biggest possible question. Why is there anything at all? There must be an answer. But who can know it?

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Willem Bernard Drees is professor of philosophy of the humanities at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He was the editor-in-chief of Zygon Journal of Religion & Science, and professor of philosophy of religion at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

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