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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... explanation for this strange marriage of prosperity and despondency, O travels to the great universities of the West—but, alas, he is unable to arrange a single conversation with a professor. The intellectuals are either too busy ...
... explanation for this strange marriage of prosperity and despondency, O travels to the great universities of the West—but, alas, he is unable to arrange a single conversation with a professor. The intellectuals are either too busy ...
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... explains, “but even there it was the exception.” Finally, a self-published poet in Birkenstocks looks up from his ... explain in any detail how science has proven meaninglessness. Finally, an iron-haired religion professor looks over ...
... explains, “but even there it was the exception.” Finally, a self-published poet in Birkenstocks looks up from his ... explain in any detail how science has proven meaninglessness. Finally, an iron-haired religion professor looks over ...
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... explains. “It's the assumption that science has proven that the universe is without purpose, without meaning—proven it so clearly that one need not even produce an argument.” The extraterrestrials are, of course, fiction. The poison ...
... explains. “It's the assumption that science has proven that the universe is without purpose, without meaning—proven it so clearly that one need not even produce an argument.” The extraterrestrials are, of course, fiction. The poison ...
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... explained, and all attempts to portray truth are merely fictions masking the will to power.3 Nietzsche's own attempts to create meaning upon ultimate meaninglessness ended. 2For a thorough account of the pedigree of materialism, see ...
... explained, and all attempts to portray truth are merely fictions masking the will to power.3 Nietzsche's own attempts to create meaning upon ultimate meaninglessness ended. 2For a thorough account of the pedigree of materialism, see ...
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... explains, “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”6 DNA involves ... explanation. But in even the simplest cells, the more than 30,000 different kinds of protein chains—each tailored to ...
... explains, “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”6 DNA involves ... explanation. But in even the simplest cells, the more than 30,000 different kinds of protein chains—each tailored to ...
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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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