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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... materialism, a view of the cosmos that can be traced back to the Greek atomists and, in particular, the philosopher Epicurus (341-270 B.C.).1 Building on the ideas of Leucippus and Democritus, Epicurus argued that the gods did not make ...
... materialism, a view of the cosmos that can be traced back to the Greek atomists and, in particular, the philosopher Epicurus (341-270 B.C.).1 Building on the ideas of Leucippus and Democritus, Epicurus argued that the gods did not make ...
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... 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. He argued ...
... 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. He argued ...
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... materialist, eminent British philosopher Antony Flew, revisited the origin-of-life problem recently and began to rethink his position. Flew has long been held up by atheists and skeptical scientists as a beacon of reason and as a model ...
... materialist, eminent British philosopher Antony Flew, revisited the origin-of-life problem recently and began to rethink his position. Flew has long been held up by atheists and skeptical scientists as a beacon of reason and as a model ...
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... materialism, and that blindness has infected virtually every intellectual discipline. A first step in breaking the spell is to investigate what exactly is meant by the term meaningless. The most obvious sense is associated with words ...
... materialism, and that blindness has infected virtually every intellectual discipline. A first step in breaking the spell is to investigate what exactly is meant by the term meaningless. The most obvious sense is associated with words ...
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... materialism. To break that spell, we must look for those things on the stage of materialism that are out of place, train our eyes on what doesn't fit. Rather than leap right into an analysis of nature or even of scientists studying ...
... materialism. To break that spell, we must look for those things on the stage of materialism that are out of place, train our eyes on what doesn't fit. Rather than leap right into an analysis of nature or even of scientists studying ...
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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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