2017-03-17T09:38:28-06:00

    An interesting chapter from the history of the relationship of science and religion:   https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2017/03/12/two-priests-a-pope-and-the-big-bang/#702061c17dbe   It’s not the simplistic tale that some polemicists favor, of constant warfare between the two (with religion always gratifyingly on the retreat and triumphant science advancing boldly against superstition), but it’s interesting nonetheless.   I went through a brief period of reading the works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin during my senior year of high school.  I recently posted an item on “Why... Read more

2017-03-17T09:00:52-06:00

    A thoughtful talk delivered at a sacrament meeting last weekend (by Walker Wright) that might be particularly helpful to some:   “Neither Shall There Be Any More Pain”: Trials and Their Purpose     Read more

2017-03-16T22:35:02-06:00

    Some have thought that the demise of religion would inaugurate the dawn of a beautiful new world lacking the ugly divisions with which we’re all too familiar.   Listen, here, to Pentatonix, beautifully rendering a remarkably stupid song:     Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for... Read more

2017-03-16T21:55:45-06:00

    It’s very dangerous, as Will Rogers liked to point out, to know things that aren’t so.  Here’s one of them, discussed by the invaluable Christina Hoff Sommers:       Read more

2017-03-16T21:40:46-06:00

    “No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.” Samuel Johnson       Read more

2017-03-16T17:19:56-06:00

    Thanks to Matthew Wheeler for calling this item to my notice:   http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-skullcaps-idUKKBN16K15Y   As a devotee of free markets, I’m strongly of the opinion that voluntary exchange can be and often is a mighty instrument for peace.   “There are,” remarked Samuel Johnson, “few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”     Read more

2017-03-16T17:05:30-06:00

    It remains remarkably complex, and quite mysterious to us:   http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2017/03/16/radical_rethink_needed_to_understand_the_brain_110215.html     Read more

2017-03-16T15:39:12-06:00

    Some of you, I expect, will be entirely unfamiliar with this classic talk by Truman Madsen.  But, even if you’ve heard or read it before, listening to it while you’re puttering around with something else would be a good thing to do.  It’s about a half hour long:       Read more

2017-03-16T09:46:34-06:00

    Amid all the fear, suspicion, hate, sensationalism, incitement, misleading cherry-picked facts, prejudice, and bigotry loudly emerging from some quarters, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to ask us to think and act like disciples of Christ.   This new little video shares a vitally important message:   https://www.facebook.com/LDS/videos/10154951574121550/?pnref=story.unseen-section   In watching it, I couldn’t help but be reminded of one of my favorite passages in the Qur’an:   “To every one of you We have appointed a... Read more

2017-03-16T08:56:23-06:00

    The title isn’t mine — I would have avoided the term intelligent design because, for good or bad reasons, it tends to elicit something of a knee-jerk negative reaction from some folks — but, anyway, here’s this week’s installment of my regular Deseret News column:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865675712/Intelligent-design-vs-God-of-the-gaps.html   (I actually think that faithful Latter-day Saints must believe in “intelligent design” in at least some sense.  It’s impossible to read the first chapters of Genesis, or Moses, or Abraham, or to... Read more

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