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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... materialist world of Darwin. Many since Darwin have attempted to reduce Shakespeare's gifts to blind material causes like sexual selection, but a journey through Shakespeare's most celebrated work, Hamlet, shows that all such attempts ...
... materialist world of Darwin. Many since Darwin have attempted to reduce Shakespeare's gifts to blind material causes like sexual selection, but a journey through Shakespeare's most celebrated work, Hamlet, shows that all such attempts ...
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... materialist attack on the Author of nature led to a loss of confidence in the literary author as source to stabilize meaning. In the latter half of the twentieth century, it was considered gauche to try to get at an author's intended ...
... materialist attack on the Author of nature led to a loss of confidence in the literary author as source to stabilize meaning. In the latter half of the twentieth century, it was considered gauche to try to get at an author's intended ...
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... materialist and 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 ...
... materialist and 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 ...
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... Materialists (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), p. 27. Bradshaw quotes Leonard Tennenhouse, Power on Display (London: Methuen, 1986). 22Darwin asserted that, just as the males of most other 48 A M EANINGFUL W ORLD.
... Materialists (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), p. 27. Bradshaw quotes Leonard Tennenhouse, Power on Display (London: Methuen, 1986). 22Darwin asserted that, just as the males of most other 48 A M EANINGFUL W ORLD.
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... materialist wasteland, the stultifying flatland of modernity at its most clinical, lifeless and, hence, most nihilistic. This reductionist urge in both Shakespearean studies and biology, this fixation on hypertidiness, no doubt has a ...
... materialist wasteland, the stultifying flatland of modernity at its most clinical, lifeless and, hence, most nihilistic. This reductionist urge in both Shakespearean studies and biology, this fixation on hypertidiness, no doubt has a ...
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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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