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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... reductionist, materialistic system—did contribute to the modern focus on the atom, even while causing much intellectual mischief. In chapter five we will explore the complex and fascinating web of influences that led early chemists to ...
... reductionist, materialistic system—did contribute to the modern focus on the atom, even while causing much intellectual mischief. In chapter five we will explore the complex and fascinating web of influences that led early chemists to ...
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... 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 parts as ...
... 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 parts as ...
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... reductionist materialism, which insists that the material realm is all that exists and that ultimate reality is to be ... reductionism seeks to give an entirely material explanation of human intelligence, one that reduces it to a string ...
... reductionist materialism, which insists that the material realm is all that exists and that ultimate reality is to be ... reductionism seeks to give an entirely material explanation of human intelligence, one that reduces it to a string ...
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... reductionist appropriations of Shakespeare. These appropriations go far beyond tales of monkeys or computers randomly generating Shakespearean prose. Darwinists like Dawkins aren't the only ones who have tried to grind Shakespeare into ...
... reductionist appropriations of Shakespeare. These appropriations go far beyond tales of monkeys or computers randomly generating Shakespearean prose. Darwinists like Dawkins aren't the only ones who have tried to grind Shakespeare into ...
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... reductionist psychology. While the Freudian reading of Hamlet is (happily) less fashionable than it once was, the attempt to reduce Shakespeare's work to the lowest urges has not abated. In the appropriately titled Rewriting Shakespeare ...
... reductionist psychology. While the Freudian reading of Hamlet is (happily) less fashionable than it once was, the attempt to reduce Shakespeare's work to the lowest urges has not abated. In the appropriately titled Rewriting Shakespeare ...
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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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