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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... strange marriage of prosperity and despondency, O travels to the great universities of the West—but, alas, he is unable to arrange a single conversation with a professor. The intellectuals are either too busy writing carefully worded ...
... strange marriage of prosperity and despondency, O travels to the great universities of the West—but, alas, he is unable to arrange a single conversation with a professor. The intellectuals are either too busy writing carefully worded ...
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... strange despair infecting Western civilization in the wake of unparalleled prosperity. His alien coworkers, however, insist he is pulling their legs. In desperation, he shows them holographic PowerPoint slides of sullen graduate ...
... strange despair infecting Western civilization in the wake of unparalleled prosperity. His alien coworkers, however, insist he is pulling their legs. In desperation, he shows them holographic PowerPoint slides of sullen graduate ...
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... was a secret code. Strange, yes, but are we sure it's meaningless? Perhaps the kid isn't kidding. Or perhaps it's a phrase written in an ancient tongue known only to a handful of obscure linguists. Or maybe 20 A M EANINGFUL W ORLD.
... was a secret code. Strange, yes, but are we sure it's meaningless? Perhaps the kid isn't kidding. Or perhaps it's a phrase written in an ancient tongue known only to a handful of obscure linguists. Or maybe 20 A M EANINGFUL W ORLD.
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... strange capacity to understand it. Recall the film A Beautiful Mind, in which future Nobel laureate and schizophrenic John Nash imagines he has been enlisted to intercept and decode enemy messages hidden in seemingly innocuous magazine ...
... strange capacity to understand it. Recall the film A Beautiful Mind, in which future Nobel laureate and schizophrenic John Nash imagines he has been enlisted to intercept and decode enemy messages hidden in seemingly innocuous magazine ...
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... strange and supposedly substandard organs and organisms. Out with that great big prodigal Gothic cathedral we call the world; in with a modern and minimalist blueprint for a new and neater cosmos, a drab but efficient flatland of ...
... strange and supposedly substandard organs and organisms. Out with that great big prodigal Gothic cathedral we call the world; in with a modern and minimalist blueprint for a new and neater cosmos, a drab but efficient flatland of ...
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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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