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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... century, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer asserted against the rationalism of his day that nature is neither rational nor purposeful, that there is no benevolent God behind it and no goal after which it strives. Rather, nature is blind ...
... century, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer asserted against the rationalism of his day that nature is neither rational nor purposeful, that there is no benevolent God behind it and no goal after which it strives. Rather, nature is blind ...
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... centuries, materialism had a credibility problem. How could blind chance fashion something as intricate as an orchid or a butterfly? How could it create life? Half way through the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin suggested an answer ...
... centuries, materialism had a credibility problem. How could blind chance fashion something as intricate as an orchid or a butterfly? How could it create life? Half way through the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin suggested an answer ...
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... century, nihilism was fashionable. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre offered a literary account in Nausea, a novel about the utter meaninglessness of human existence with a thinly disguised Sartre as the lead character, Roquentin. Here was ...
... century, nihilism was fashionable. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre offered a literary account in Nausea, a novel about the utter meaninglessness of human existence with a thinly disguised Sartre as the lead character, Roquentin. Here was ...
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... century, we understand that that the cell includes an alphabet and an extraordinary amount of functional genetic text. As software giant Bill Gates explains, “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ...
... century, we understand that that the cell includes an alphabet and an extraordinary amount of functional genetic text. As software giant Bill Gates explains, “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ...
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... century: 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 ...
... century: 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 ...
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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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