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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... human race. However, something does puzzle him. Although he finds that humanity has stumbled on the powerful investigative method we call science and, therefore, is experiencing unparalleled prosperity, the intellectuals in the very ...
... human race. However, something does puzzle him. Although he finds that humanity has stumbled on the powerful investigative method we call science and, therefore, is experiencing unparalleled prosperity, the intellectuals in the very ...
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... human culture,” O explains. “It's the assumption that science has proven that the universe is without purpose, without meaning—proven it so clearly that one need not even produce an argument.” The extraterrestrials are, of course ...
... human culture,” O explains. “It's the assumption that science has proven that the universe is without purpose, without meaning—proven it so clearly that one need not even produce an argument.” The extraterrestrials are, of course ...
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... Human beings themselves became just one more accident of 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 ...
... Human beings themselves became just one more accident of 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 ...
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... human existence with a thinly disguised Sartre as the lead character, Roquentin. Here was the truly philosophical man who alone recognized the hideous nature of reality, hideous enough to bring on a kind of metaphysical sickness (hence ...
... human existence with a thinly disguised Sartre as the lead character, Roquentin. Here was the truly philosophical man who alone recognized the hideous nature of reality, hideous enough to bring on a kind of metaphysical sickness (hence ...
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... human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three ... human commerce is only superficially meaningful, for the ostensible pointlessness of the beginning robs any of the busy ...
... human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three ... human commerce is only superficially meaningful, for the ostensible pointlessness of the beginning robs any of the busy ...
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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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