Alan Hall Chaos and Creation examines why it is that mankind feels compelled to find explanations for the origins of ‘life, the universe and everything’, whether through myth, reason or faith.

Contributors include cosmologists Mark Hindmarsh and Kathy Romer, the classicist and Christian minister Teresa Morgan, the politician Phil Willis, the mythologist Sian Hawthorne and an evangelical physicist, Karl Giberson. Their reflections upon the value of seeking an explanation for creation – and their challenging of whose purposes it serves – are set within an analysis by Sharon Choa of Joseph Haydn’s musical depiction of chaos and creation in Die Schöpfung – The Creation.

Press

...this was a glittering, multi-textured feature about myths and concepts of origin, full of boggling questions ("What's the origin of the origin of the origin?") and clever people with minds that twinkle like the brightest stars."

Elisabeth Mahoney
Guardian, 08 June 2009