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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... existence. At the end of the nineteenth century, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche provided the West with the most ruthless account of the meaningless universe. Taking both Schopenhauer and Darwin to heart, Nietzsche proudly declared that ...
... existence. At the end of the nineteenth century, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche provided the West with the most ruthless account of the meaningless universe. Taking both Schopenhauer and Darwin to heart, Nietzsche proudly declared that ...
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... existence with a thinly disguised Sartre as the lead character, Roquentin. Here was the truly philosophical man who alone recognized the hideous nature of reality, hideous enough to bring on a kind of metaphysical sickness (hence the ...
... existence with a thinly disguised Sartre as the lead character, Roquentin. Here was the truly philosophical man who alone recognized the hideous nature of reality, hideous enough to bring on a kind of metaphysical sickness (hence the ...
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... existence, changing from one shape to the next in completely unpredictable ways. In such a universe, every event would be meaningless against a backdrop of total disorder. Events could be neither connected nor disconnected, no patterns ...
... existence, changing from one shape to the next in completely unpredictable ways. In such a universe, every event would be meaningless against a backdrop of total disorder. Events could be neither connected nor disconnected, no patterns ...
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... existence in one fell swoop. Rather, evolution always works by cumulative steps, building slowly to the goal through a long series of functional intermediates. And so, according to Dawkins, if we allow the Shakespearean phrase to be ...
... existence in one fell swoop. Rather, evolution always works by cumulative steps, building slowly to the goal through a long series of functional intermediates. And so, according to Dawkins, if we allow the Shakespearean phrase to be ...
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... existence. We do not fault Dawkins the biologist for a bogus. 11The distinction is from E. D. Hirsch Jr., Validity in Interpretation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1967). The materialist attack on the Author of nature led to a ...
... existence. We do not fault Dawkins the biologist for a bogus. 11The distinction is from E. D. Hirsch Jr., Validity in Interpretation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1967). The materialist attack on the Author of nature led to a ...
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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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