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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... reducing everything to an ever smaller set of constituent parts and emphasizing these parts as ultimate reality. Epicureanism provided the prototype of the meaningless universe—godless, governed by chance, purposeless. Nihilism is its ...
... reducing everything to an ever smaller set of constituent parts and emphasizing these parts as ultimate reality. Epicureanism provided the prototype of the meaningless universe—godless, governed by chance, purposeless. Nihilism is its ...
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... reduces it to a string of pointless material causes. It must kill the soul and, in the process, reduce all the evident genius of humanity to dust. To this end, some materialists have gone after Shakespeare with a tireless ingenuity. In ...
... reduces it to a string of pointless material causes. It must kill the soul and, in the process, reduce all the evident genius of humanity to dust. To this end, some materialists have gone after Shakespeare with a tireless ingenuity. In ...
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... reduced, from nature itself to the very activity of scientists who study nature. Against this materialist claim, we again offer the evidence of genius, studying the string of geniuses who discovered and assembled the periodic table of ...
... reduced, from nature itself to the very activity of scientists who study nature. Against this materialist claim, we again offer the evidence of genius, studying the string of geniuses who discovered and assembled the periodic table of ...
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... reduce Shakespeare's gifts to blind material causes like sexual selection, but a journey through Shakespeare's most ... reduced to far less than it is. As literary critics were just beginning to try to force the beauties of Shakespeare ...
... reduce Shakespeare's gifts to blind material causes like sexual selection, but a journey through Shakespeare's most ... reduced to far less than it is. As literary critics were just beginning to try to force the beauties of Shakespeare ...
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... reduce the odds to better than one chance in 10150. And our plucky computer has only begun. Each more complex level would entail that it trudge through ever greater numbers of functionless, meaningless deserts in its effort to conjure ...
... reduce the odds to better than one chance in 10150. And our plucky computer has only begun. Each more complex level would entail that it trudge through ever greater numbers of functionless, meaningless deserts in its effort to conjure ...
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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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