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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.
Abortion. Euthanasia. Infanticide. Sexual promiscuity. Ideas and
actions once unthinkable have become commonplace. We seem to live
in a different moral universe than we occupied just a few decades
ago. Consent and noncoercion seem to be the last vestiges of a
morality long left behind. Christian moral tenets are now easily
dismissed and have been replaced with what is curiously presented
as a superior, more magnanimous, respectful and even humble
morality. How did we end up so far away from where we began? Can
the decline be stopped? Ben Wiker, in this provocative and
insightful book, traces the amazing story that explains our present
cultural situation. Wiker finds the roots of our moral slide
reaching all the way back to the ethical theory and atheistic
cosmology of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. Christian
teaching had been in contention with this worldview long before it
reached its pinnacle with the rise and acceptance of Darwinism. But
it was Darwinism, Wiker contends, that provided this ancient
teaching with the seemingly modern and scientific basis that
captured twentieth-century minds. Wiker demonstrates that this
ancient atomistic and materialistic philosophy supplies the guiding
force behind Darwinism and powerfully propels the hedonistic bent
of our society while promoting itself under the guise of pure
science. This book is a challenge not only to those who believe
Darwinism to be purely scientific fact but to Christian who have at
times inconsistently lived out their Christian moral convictions
and so have failed to recognize and address the ancient corrosive
underpinnings of our present moral and intellectual crisis.
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