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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... modern architecture heaped next to stone buildings older and infinitely more beautiful, book titles testifying to the death of meaning, and wealthy fashion models half-starved and aping death with charcoal makeup. Only then do his ...
... modern architecture heaped next to stone buildings older and infinitely more beautiful, book titles testifying to the death of meaning, and wealthy fashion models half-starved and aping death with charcoal makeup. Only then do his ...
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... modern acceptance of philosophical 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 ...
... modern acceptance of philosophical 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 ...
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... modern reductionist, materialist framework for describing nature—a program bent not only on denying anything beyond the material realm, but also on reducing everything to an ever smaller set of constituent parts and emphasizing these ...
... modern reductionist, materialist framework for describing nature—a program bent not only on denying anything beyond the material realm, but also on reducing everything to an ever smaller set of constituent parts and emphasizing these ...
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... the word (things like incoherence), but these ultimately depend on direct connections to things that are (e.g., coherence). 13Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of Meaning-fullness and Meaninglessness 21.
... the word (things like incoherence), but these ultimately depend on direct connections to things that are (e.g., coherence). 13Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of Meaning-fullness and Meaninglessness 21.
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... 13Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (New York: Basic, 1977), p. 154. grace of tragedy.15 14See the insightful essay by physicist Eugene Meaning-fullness and Meaninglessness 23.
... 13Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (New York: Basic, 1977), p. 154. grace of tragedy.15 14See the insightful essay by physicist Eugene Meaning-fullness and Meaninglessness 23.
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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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