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Seminar of the Science, Reason and Faith Group. The great enigma. Atheists and believers facing the uncertainty of the afterlife Javier Montserrat. Pamplona, April 19, 2016. Javier Montserrat, Jesuit, is a professor at the Comillas University (theory of knowledge, epistemology and theory of science) and a Senior Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Department of Basic Psychology in the Faculty of Psychology). He was director for 25 years, until 2011, of the magazine Pensamiento. Since its foundation, he is a permanent member of the Advisory Board of the Science, Technology and Religion Chair at the Higher School of Engineering of the Comillas University. He has been a member of the X. Zubiri Seminar since 1978. Zubiri's thought has had a great influence on his copious philosophical, theological and scientific production. The seminar is based on the subject of the speaker's latest book, published by San Pablo Publishing House in June 2015, which bears the title of this seminar. Speaker's summary: The God of Revelation in Jesus Christ is the same God of Creation. Therefore, the Christian theological tradition has always understood that the Voice of the God of Revelation must be in harmony with the Voice of the God of Creation. One could therefore speak of the Book of Revelation and the Book of Nature. This bidirectional illumination between Revelation and Nature leads to a hermeneutics of religion and Christianity that depends on the image of how the world created by God really is. But, how is the world created by God really like? This question must be answered, in part, through the exercise of natural reason, in science and in philosophy. Now, it seems that current science today establishes the most reliable path and the basic data to understand how the universe was really created by God. Therefore, the modern image of the universe, of matter, of life and of man, in science and in philosophy, to what hermeneutics of religion and of Christianity does it lead us, in dialogue with philosophy?