A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of NatureInterVarsity Press, 20 вер. 2009 р. - 257 стор. 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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... abstract, formal relationships of numbers and figures and the order of nature? Why, in short, is nature amenable to mathematical analysis? From a consideration of mathematics, we turn to the world of chemistry, to which materialists ...
... abstract, formal relationships of numbers and figures and the order of nature? Why, in short, is nature amenable to mathematical analysis? From a consideration of mathematics, we turn to the world of chemistry, to which materialists ...
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... abstract, floating world of the vertebrate eye isn't even enough. Vision is more than the eye. In vision, we are not receiving isolated patches of color, but experiencing whole objects that are colored, and we see them as existing ...
... abstract, floating world of the vertebrate eye isn't even enough. Vision is more than the eye. In vision, we are not receiving isolated patches of color, but experiencing whole objects that are colored, and we see them as existing ...
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... abstract, straw theory that can produce abstract, straw men. Thus, the thinking person is wise to ask, to what extent is the universe watchlike? To what extent should it be watchlike? All metaphors break down if pressed far enough, and ...
... abstract, straw theory that can produce abstract, straw men. Thus, the thinking person is wise to ask, to what extent is the universe watchlike? To what extent should it be watchlike? All metaphors break down if pressed far enough, and ...
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... abstract elegance over other and often more vital attributes like variety, imaginative exuberance, freedom and even moral complexity. In their attempt to master everything, they deny anything that exceeds their grasp. They lose the ...
... abstract elegance over other and often more vital attributes like variety, imaginative exuberance, freedom and even moral complexity. In their attempt to master everything, they deny anything that exceeds their grasp. They lose the ...
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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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