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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... kind of metaphysical sickness (hence the title). Later the theme found its way into a variety of brooding plays, poems, stories and films and eventually begat a popular disciple in Woody Allen, who offered moviegoers a friendlier, self ...
... kind of metaphysical sickness (hence the title). Later the theme found its way into a variety of brooding plays, poems, stories and films and eventually begat a popular disciple in Woody Allen, who offered moviegoers a friendlier, self ...
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... kind of intellectual blindness caused by the ingrained habits of dogmatic materialism, and that blindness has infected virtually every intellectual discipline. A first step in breaking the spell is to investigate what exactly is meant ...
... kind of intellectual blindness caused by the ingrained habits of dogmatic materialism, and that blindness has infected virtually every intellectual discipline. A first step in breaking the spell is to investigate what exactly is meant ...
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... kind of split personality wherein they act as if the universe is knowable, as if it has intrinsic meaning that they are discovering in the data, even while they proclaim that the universe is ultimately meaningless. The view isn't quite ...
... kind of split personality wherein they act as if the universe is knowable, as if it has intrinsic meaning that they are discovering in the data, even while they proclaim that the universe is ultimately meaningless. The view isn't quite ...
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... kind of midway point—mathematics, one of the great intellectual tools that we human knowers use to investigate the order of nature, the very tool which scientists like Weinberg so successfully employ to uncover the meaning of 26 A M ...
... kind of midway point—mathematics, one of the great intellectual tools that we human knowers use to investigate the order of nature, the very tool which scientists like Weinberg so successfully employ to uncover the meaning of 26 A M ...
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... eventually they would generate the entire works of Shakespeare. This claim has cast a kind of malignant charm for far too long. Thus, it wasn't until 2002 that enterprising researchers 2 "Hamlet" and the Search for Meaning.
... eventually they would generate the entire works of Shakespeare. This claim has cast a kind of malignant charm for far too long. Thus, it wasn't until 2002 that enterprising researchers 2 "Hamlet" and the Search for Meaning.
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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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