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It is not by chance that the launching of the ID Arts website coincides with the publication of the fascinating work by Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt: A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature. In this book the authors explore the genius of Shakespeare and how his works fly in the face of a materialist universe:

“Many of today’s leading Shakespeare scholars reject theism. The awkward thing for them is that William Shakespeare’s work—the work they have dedicated their professional lives to—does not. The playwright’s themes pose a profound challenge for materialism, assuming as they do the ontological categories of flesh and spirit, good and evil, heaven and hell. But more fundamental still is the challenge Shakespeare’s genius poses to any worldview that would reduce everything, including the human mind, to the mindless flux of matter and energy. Not only does his genius seem irreducible to anything so mean, the fruits of that genius find a striking correspondence in the ingenious forms of nature.” – pg 58