A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of NatureInterVarsity Press, 20 сент. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 257 Meaningful or meaningless? Purposeful or pointless? When we look at nature, whether at our living earth or into deepest space, what do we find? In stark contrast to contemporary claims that the world is meaningless, Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt reveal a cosmos charged with both meaning and purpose. Their journey begins with Shakespeare and ranges through Euclid's geometry, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, the periodic table of the elements, the artistry of ordinary substances like carbon and water, the intricacy of biological organisms, and the irreducible drama of scientific exploration itself. Along the way, Wiker and Witt fashion a robust argument from evidence in nature, one that rests neither on religious presuppositions nor on a simplistic view of nature as the best of all possible worlds. In their exploration of the cosmos, Wiker and Witt find all the challenges and surprises, all of the mystery and elegance one expects from a work of genius. |
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... EARTH. ONCE EVERY thousand years, a sort of intergalactic park ranger making the rounds, filing reports, just doing his job. Call him O. When he arrives at the turn of the third millennium, O is not surprised to find murder, envy, strife ...
... EARTH. ONCE EVERY thousand years, a sort of intergalactic park ranger making the rounds, filing reports, just doing his job. Call him O. When he arrives at the turn of the third millennium, O is not surprised to find murder, envy, strife ...
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... earth looks very soft and comfortable—fluffy clouds here and there, snow turning pink as the sun sets, roads stretching straight across the country from one town to another. It is very hard to realize that this all is just a tiny part ...
... earth looks very soft and comfortable—fluffy clouds here and there, snow turning pink as the sun sets, roads stretching straight across the country from one town to another. It is very hard to realize that this all is just a tiny part ...
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... Earth and an atmosphere to hold it, but also the presence of the complex hydrological cycle, the heat of vaporization of water itself and the presence of cloud condensation nuclei from biological and nonbiological sources. Beyond this ...
... Earth and an atmosphere to hold it, but also the presence of the complex hydrological cycle, the heat of vaporization of water itself and the presence of cloud condensation nuclei from biological and nonbiological sources. Beyond this ...
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... developing a history of Middle Earth for years, all the way back to his time in the trenches of World War I. 14Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884; reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1992). Hamlet and the Search for Meaning 45.
... developing a history of Middle Earth for years, all the way back to his time in the trenches of World War I. 14Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884; reprint, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1992). Hamlet and the Search for Meaning 45.
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... Earth?28 Pandas as comic relief, as divine whimsy? To spurn the notion as if it were patently ridiculous, as beneath consideration, is merely to expose one's utilitarian presuppositions. Why, after all, should the designer's world read ...
... Earth?28 Pandas as comic relief, as divine whimsy? To spurn the notion as if it were patently ridiculous, as beneath consideration, is merely to expose one's utilitarian presuppositions. Why, after all, should the designer's world read ...
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3 Shakespeare and the Element of Genius | 58 |
4 The Geometry of Genius | 83 |
5 The Periodic Table | 111 |
6 A Cosmic Home Designed for Discovery | 148 |
7 The Genius of the Elements | 170 |
8 The Reemergence of the Living Cell | 194 |
9 The Restoration of the Living Organism | 220 |
10 The End of the Matter | 241 |
Index | 253 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 258 |
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