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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... the Living Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 9 The Restoration of the Living Organism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 10 The End of the Matter: A Meaningful World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Index ...
... the Living Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 9 The Restoration of the Living Organism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 10 The End of the Matter: A Meaningful World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Index ...
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... cells are full to overflowing with meaningful form. Thanks to discoveries in the second half of the twentieth century, we understand that that the cell includes. 4See Thomas H. Hibbs, Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from ...
... cells are full to overflowing with meaningful form. Thanks to discoveries in the second half of the twentieth century, we understand that that the cell includes. 4See Thomas H. Hibbs, Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from ...
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... cells. These four letters are used to construct the larger alphabet of 20 amino acids used to build proteins. If only a little code were needed for the simplest self-reproducing cell— say a dozen amino acids of the right type and order ...
... cells. These four letters are used to construct the larger alphabet of 20 amino acids used to build proteins. If only a little code were needed for the simplest self-reproducing cell— say a dozen amino acids of the right type and order ...
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... cell isn't a set of requisite parts existing in an indiscriminate pile, or even a neatly ordered series of piles, any more than all the parts lined up neatly on shelves at your local car parts store are a car. As we discuss at greater ...
... cell isn't a set of requisite parts existing in an indiscriminate pile, or even a neatly ordered series of piles, any more than all the parts lined up neatly on shelves at your local car parts store are a car. As we discuss at greater ...
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... cell that makes possible the work of DNA. The discovery of the cell's riches is just one instance of what occurred so often in the twentieth century: scientists again and again found a depth of meaning, of intricate, intelligible order ...
... cell that makes possible the work of DNA. The discovery of the cell's riches is just one instance of what occurred so often in the twentieth century: scientists again and again found a depth of meaning, of intricate, intelligible order ...
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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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