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I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I. The Future. I'm Andrew McDermott. Today we're sharing the second half of a recent interview with Dr Jonathan Witt, conducted by the Denison Forum Podcast.

Dr. Witt is executive editor at Discovery Institute Press

and a senior fellow and senior project manager

with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.

In this interview, Dr. Witt and host Dr Mark Turman discussed the central question and

main points of Witt's 2006 book A Meaningful World, How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, co-written

with Benjamin Weicker.

The book tackles the question of whether the world is meaningful or meaningless, purposeful or pointless.

Witt argues that the Cosmos is charged with both meaning and purpose.

From the works of Shakespeare to Euclid's geometry, from everyday substances like water and carbon to the

intricacy of biological organisms. Today you'll hear the second half of the

conversation. Dr Witt shares the four characteristics of genius that he and

co-author Weiker identified in iconic works of great literature and art, and he

explains that the same characteristics are evident in the natural world too.

He provides several examples of such genius in art as well as in biology, mathematics and

cosmology.

Let's get back to the conversation now. Here again is Dr. Mark

Termin hosting Dr. Jonathan Witt. Let's go down a couple of those roads because

just to kind of give people a framework of what this this book and

this conversation is about it's it it might be expected by people to say how

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