A Meaningful World by Benjamin Wiker
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.
Witt, Jonathan: - Jonathan Witt, Ph.D., is a research fellow with the Acton Institute and a former a professor of literature and writing. He has scripted three documentaries that aired on PBS and served as the lead writer for the PovertyCure Series. The co-author of A Meaningful World, his essays have appeared in Touchstone, The American Spectator, Crisis, Philosophia Christi, The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, and Oxford's Literature and Theology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780830827992 |
| ISBN 10 | 0830827994 |
| Title | A Meaningful World |
| Author | Benjamin Wiker |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
| Year published | 2006-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 257 |
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