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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... reality. Epicureanism provided the prototype of the meaningless universe—godless, governed by chance, purposeless. Nihilism is its heir.2 But for centuries, materialism had a credibility problem. How could blind chance fashion something ...
... reality. Epicureanism provided the prototype of the meaningless universe—godless, governed by chance, purposeless. Nihilism is its heir.2 But for centuries, materialism had a credibility problem. How could blind chance fashion something ...
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... reality, hideous enough to bring on a 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 ...
... reality, hideous enough to bring on a 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 ...
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... reality, to say something about something. And so the following is also gibberish: “Under crying the of trundle breakfast paladin glint.” The string of. 12Of course, nouns are regularly and rightly stretched to name all kinds of things ...
... reality, to say something about something. And so the following is also gibberish: “Under crying the of trundle breakfast paladin glint.” The string of. 12Of course, nouns are regularly and rightly stretched to name all kinds of things ...
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... reality of gibberish where there was no continuity between events and things just blinked in and out of existence, changing from one shape to the next in completely unpredictable ways. In such a universe, every event would be ...
... reality of gibberish where there was no continuity between events and things just blinked in and out of existence, changing from one shape to the next in completely unpredictable ways. In such a universe, every event would be ...
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... reality is to be found in the smallest constituent parts we can find. The everyday experience of these men and women is one of searching out the intrinsically intelligible order of nature, but the materialist dogma barks out that blind ...
... reality is to be found in the smallest constituent parts we can find. The everyday experience of these men and women is one of searching out the intrinsically intelligible order of nature, but the materialist dogma barks out that blind ...
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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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