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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... creature the evolution of which a truly comprehensive theory of evolution must give some account. Darwin himself was well aware that he had not produced such an account. It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of ...
... creature the evolution of which a truly comprehensive theory of evolution must give some account. Darwin himself was well aware that he had not produced such an account. It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of ...
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... creatures before our eyes have been designed. Add to this the aside about Jesus in the clouds—a clever barb at Christians, implying as it does the nebulous origins of their beliefs—and we have before us an ingenious and meticulously ...
... creatures before our eyes have been designed. Add to this the aside about Jesus in the clouds—a clever barb at Christians, implying as it does the nebulous origins of their beliefs—and we have before us an ingenious and meticulously ...
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... creature escapes, for all creatures, great and small, are in such a world mere epiphenomena of the smallest matter's pointless shufflings. “Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the ...
... creature escapes, for all creatures, great and small, are in such a world mere epiphenomena of the smallest matter's pointless shufflings. “Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the ...
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... creature that, considered narrowly, would seem to fall short of an optimal design. Here they not only make a theological claim but ignore key questions at once practical and aesthetic: How. 27Gregory Nazianzen Orations 27-28, in Nicene ...
... creature that, considered narrowly, would seem to fall short of an optimal design. Here they not only make a theological claim but ignore key questions at once practical and aesthetic: How. 27Gregory Nazianzen Orations 27-28, in Nicene ...
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... creature play a part in the overall drama of life? Again, as with Dawkins and his sentence-generating computer program, they overlook the larger context. They fault the designer, for instance, for not giving pandas opposable thumbs. An ...
... creature play a part in the overall drama of life? Again, as with Dawkins and his sentence-generating computer program, they overlook the larger context. They fault the designer, for instance, for not giving pandas opposable thumbs. An ...
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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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