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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... cosmos. But nihilism reaches much further back in Western culture. It is rooted in the modern acceptance of philosophical materialism, a view of the cosmos that can be traced back to the Greek atomists and, in particular, the ...
... cosmos. But nihilism reaches much further back in Western culture. It is rooted in the modern acceptance of philosophical materialism, a view of the cosmos that can be traced back to the Greek atomists and, in particular, the ...
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... cosmos, we ponder, as Albert Einstein did, the striking fact that the universe is comprehensible, that mathematics illuminates nature by mapping forms of order as small as the bonds within an atom and as broad as the universe. On ...
... cosmos, we ponder, as Albert Einstein did, the striking fact that the universe is comprehensible, that mathematics illuminates nature by mapping forms of order as small as the bonds within an atom and as broad as the universe. On ...
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... Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery (New York: Regnery, 2004), p. 307. 17The book is in progress with the provisional title Darwin and Shakespeare: Aesthetics and Bad-Design Arguments Against Intelligent Design. It builds on Jonathan Witt ...
... Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery (New York: Regnery, 2004), p. 307. 17The book is in progress with the provisional title Darwin and Shakespeare: Aesthetics and Bad-Design Arguments Against Intelligent Design. It builds on Jonathan Witt ...
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... cosmos as watch (one crafted, ironically, to underscore how elegantly designed the universe is). We can see how Enlightenment thinkers arrived at this metaphor, confronted as they were with fresh insights concerning the mathematical ...
... cosmos as watch (one crafted, ironically, to underscore how elegantly designed the universe is). We can see how Enlightenment thinkers arrived at this metaphor, confronted as they were with fresh insights concerning the mathematical ...
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... cosmos. The trouble comes when the analogy is reified. It is an illuminating analogy but only an analogy. Where a single metaphor crowds out all others in a matter as complex as our living world, it produces an intellectually ...
... cosmos. The trouble comes when the analogy is reified. It is an illuminating analogy but only an analogy. Where a single metaphor crowds out all others in a matter as complex as our living world, it produces an intellectually ...
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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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