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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... sense that life is meaningless?” the alien asks the sullen ones. They complain about this or that politician, a war here or there. O points out that whereas tyranny and war have always been around, thousands of people sitting around ...
... sense that life is meaningless?” the alien asks the sullen ones. They complain about this or that politician, a war here or there. O points out that whereas tyranny and war have always been around, thousands of people sitting around ...
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... sense is associated with words, with speech as an act of communication. When we think of meaningless speech we have in mind gibberish. Unlike the speech of an impenetrable foreign language, gibberish is not merely unknowable information ...
... sense is associated with words, with speech as an act of communication. When we think of meaningless speech we have in mind gibberish. Unlike the speech of an impenetrable foreign language, gibberish is not merely unknowable information ...
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... sense that the letters probably were semantically meaningless (though not without purpose). Omniscient knowledge of all languages everywhere combined with an intimate and complete knowledge of the two authors of this book would merely ...
... sense that the letters probably were semantically meaningless (though not without purpose). Omniscient knowledge of all languages everywhere combined with an intimate and complete knowledge of the two authors of this book would merely ...
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... sense of meaninglessness, one that differs from gibberish. In a second sense, something can be meaningless, not in itself, but to us because we haven't deciphered it yet. In this sense, something isn't meaningless in itself (as with the ...
... sense of meaninglessness, one that differs from gibberish. In a second sense, something can be meaningless, not in itself, but to us because we haven't deciphered it yet. In this sense, something isn't meaningless in itself (as with the ...
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... sense of sensation. Most scientists accept this level of meaning without considering the trouble it might cause for the notion of wholesale pointlessness in the universe. Indeed, Weinberg is sufficiently myopic about this inconsistency ...
... sense of sensation. Most scientists accept this level of meaning without considering the trouble it might cause for the notion of wholesale pointlessness in the universe. Indeed, Weinberg is sufficiently myopic about this inconsistency ...
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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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