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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... evolution.” “Scientists said it, you believe it, so that settles it?” “Not the beaker jockeys. I'm talking about the visionaries—Dawkins, Sagan, Weinberg.” “And how did they arrive at their conclusions?” “Why are you asking me? Do I ...
... evolution.” “Scientists said it, you believe it, so that settles it?” “Not the beaker jockeys. I'm talking about the visionaries—Dawkins, Sagan, Weinberg.” “And how did they arrive at their conclusions?” “Why are you asking me? Do I ...
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... evolution, and a quite unfortunate one at that, for they alone of all the animals had been given the regrettable ability to grasp the ultimate meaninglessness of their own existence. At the end of the nineteenth century, philosopher ...
... evolution, and a quite unfortunate one at that, for they alone of all the animals had been given the regrettable ability to grasp the ultimate meaninglessness of their own existence. At the end of the nineteenth century, philosopher ...
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... Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Chevy Chase, Md.: Adler & Adler, 1986), p. 250. 8See Stephen Meyer, “DNA and the Origin of Life: Information, Specification and Explanation,” in Darwinism, Design and Public Education, ed. John Angus ...
... Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Chevy Chase, Md.: Adler & Adler, 1986), p. 250. 8See Stephen Meyer, “DNA and the Origin of Life: Information, Specification and Explanation,” in Darwinism, Design and Public Education, ed. John Angus ...
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... 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 DNA research ...
... 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 DNA research ...
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... evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.13 On Weinberg's view, the retail meaning ...
... evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.13 On Weinberg's view, the retail meaning ...
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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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