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A Meaningful World – How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature

A Meaningful World – How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature


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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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Meaning-fulness and Meaninglessness
2. Hamlet and the Search for Meaning
3. Shakespeare and the Elements of Genius
4. The Geometry of Genius
5. The Periodic Table: A Masterpiece of Many Authors
6. A Cosmic Home Designed for Discovery
7. The Genius of the Elements
8. The Reemergence of the Living Cell
9. The Restoration of the Living Organism
10. The End of the Matter: A Meaningful World
Index



About the Author :

Jonathan Witt, PhD, is a senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and author or coauthor of many books and articles, including two from IVP, A Meaningful World with Benjamin Wiker and Intelligent DesignUncensored with William Dembski.


Benjamin Wiker (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) is lecturer in theology and science at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. He is also a senior fellow of Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington. His work has appeared in such publications as Crisis, First Things, National Catholic Register and the New Oxford Review. He is the author of Moral Darwinism.



Review :
"It is fully as gratifying to hear from teachers and writers who know science and literature as well as theology and who use their energy to assign God his rightful place." "A good book for the math or science lover." "Several outstanding books argue for Intelligent Design. However, A Meaningful World explores newer ground. In this book the authors widen the focus to the meaning and genius that are evident all around us." "A Meaningful World offers a compelling rebuttal to modern materialism and its reductionistic view of nature. The professional critics of intelligent design didn?t see this book coming, and are unlikely to have a ready response to its argument." "Wiker and Witt submit: 'A poison has entered human culture. It's the assumption that science has proven that the universe is without purpose, without meaning.' This is the primary popular assumption the authors tackle in A Meaningful World."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780830827992
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Inter-Varsity Press,US
  • Height: 9 mm
  • No of Pages: 257
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 6 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0830827994
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jul 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 440 gr


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