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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... imagination before he had begun the play, or perhaps a scrap of his opening speech. Nevertheless, a close study of the play and of the creative process among literary artists generally shows that absent a sense of the larger plot and ...
... imagination before he had begun the play, or perhaps a scrap of his opening speech. Nevertheless, a close study of the play and of the creative process among literary artists generally shows that absent a sense of the larger plot and ...
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... imagination, one that pounds all within its reach into his drab, reductionist psychology. While the Freudian reading of Hamlet is (happily) less fashionable than it once was, the attempt to reduce Shakespeare's work to the lowest urges ...
... imagination, one that pounds all within its reach into his drab, reductionist psychology. While the Freudian reading of Hamlet is (happily) less fashionable than it once was, the attempt to reduce Shakespeare's work to the lowest urges ...
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... imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands.” Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981), 2:327. 23Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New York ...
... imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands.” Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981), 2:327. 23Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New York ...
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... imaginations have been improperly constricted by this mechanistic analogy. What do we find elsewhere, further back? Whether we think of the morally compromised gods of Mount Olympus meddling in the affairs of their various mortal ...
... imaginations have been improperly constricted by this mechanistic analogy. What do we find elsewhere, further back? Whether we think of the morally compromised gods of Mount Olympus meddling in the affairs of their various mortal ...
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... imaginative, even whimsical designer of our actual universe? Such a deity might serve nicely as the national god of the Nazis, matching Adolph Hitler stroke for stroke—Hitler in his disdain for humanity's sprawling diversity, the tidy ...
... imaginative, even whimsical designer of our actual universe? Such a deity might serve nicely as the national god of the Nazis, matching Adolph Hitler stroke for stroke—Hitler in his disdain for humanity's sprawling diversity, the tidy ...
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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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