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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... Scientists said it, you believe it, so that settles it?” “Not the beaker jockeys. I'm talking about the visionaries—Dawkins, Sagan, Weinberg.” “And how did they arrive at their conclusions?” “Why are you asking me? Do I look like a ...
... Scientists said it, you believe it, so that settles it?” “Not the beaker jockeys. I'm talking about the visionaries—Dawkins, Sagan, Weinberg.” “And how did they arrive at their conclusions?” “Why are you asking me? Do I look like a ...
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... scientists, among others, continue to discover. It's a point we'll come back to again and again. Our argument is borne along, not in spite of recent scientific discoveries, but by those discoveries. We now know, for instance, that even ...
... scientists, among others, continue to discover. It's a point we'll come back to again and again. Our argument is borne along, not in spite of recent scientific discoveries, but by those discoveries. We now know, for instance, that even ...
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... scientists as a beacon of reason and as a model of incisive, rigorous and enlightened thinking about the question of design. For many years he argued that there should be a presumption of atheism when approaching the question of origins ...
... scientists as a beacon of reason and as a model of incisive, rigorous and enlightened thinking about the question of design. For many years he argued that there should be a presumption of atheism when approaching the question of origins ...
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... scientists again and again found a depth of meaning, of intricate, intelligible order, in the natural world. In exploring this meaning we will move forward by philosophical, literary, mathematical and scientific analysis. This broad ...
... scientists again and again found a depth of meaning, of intricate, intelligible order, in the natural world. In exploring this meaning we will move forward by philosophical, literary, mathematical and scientific analysis. This broad ...
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... scientist. Does he behave like someone who believes the world is intrinsically meaningless? Can a scientist be a ... scientists accept this level of meaning without considering the trouble it might cause for the notion of wholesale ...
... scientist. Does he behave like someone who believes the world is intrinsically meaningless? Can a scientist be a ... scientists accept this level of meaning without considering the trouble it might cause for the notion of wholesale ...
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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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