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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... words, with speech as an act of communication. When we think of meaningless speech we have in mind gibberish. Unlike the speech of an impenetrable foreign language, gibberish is not merely unknowable information. In gibberish, there is ...
... words, with speech as an act of communication. When we think of meaningless speech we have in mind gibberish. Unlike the speech of an impenetrable foreign language, gibberish is not merely unknowable information. In gibberish, there is ...
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... words, the recognition of disorder depends on order, so that without meaning, the notion of gibberish (ironically) wouldn't mean anything. This is evident in the very term meaningless, a subtraction or falling off from meaning ...
... words, the recognition of disorder depends on order, so that without meaning, the notion of gibberish (ironically) wouldn't mean anything. This is evident in the very term meaningless, a subtraction or falling off from meaning ...
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... words doesn't have meaning, even though the individual words do, because the string of words is not governed by an overarching unity or pattern that refers to something. A sign of this is that it has no defined subject and predicate ...
... words doesn't have meaning, even though the individual words do, because the string of words is not governed by an overarching unity or pattern that refers to something. A sign of this is that it has no defined subject and predicate ...
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... words of physicist Steven Weinberg in the penultimate paragraph of The First Three Minutes: It is almost irresistible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less ...
... words of physicist Steven Weinberg in the penultimate paragraph of The First Three Minutes: It is almost irresistible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less ...
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... words formed into the integrated whole of the larger order of a meaningful sentence, as governed by syntax, grammar, spelling and the accepted meaning of the individual words.6 If the computer program had been set up to properly mirror ...
... words formed into the integrated whole of the larger order of a meaningful sentence, as governed by syntax, grammar, spelling and the accepted meaning of the individual words.6 If the computer program had been set up to properly mirror ...
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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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