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Willem Drees鈥檚 Religion, Science and Naturalism (Cambridge University Press,
拢40/$59.95, ISBN 0 521 49708 6) is a profound and taxing book. For
Drees, the lines normally drawn by those engaged in the religion versus science
debate are too rigid. He contends that religion and morality are as much natural
phenomena as the subjects of the natural sciences are, and that they have
evolved in the same way. To follow his argument, it is essential to understand
what he means by 鈥渘aturalism鈥�, so the reader must wrestle with Drees鈥檚 long
dissertation on his terms鈥攏aturalism may be 鈥渉ard鈥� or 鈥渟oft鈥�, for
instance. It isn鈥檛 easy.