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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Old Testament Lesson 7 \u201cTo Be a Greater Follower of Righteousness\u201d<\/em>: Genesis 12\u201317; Abraham 1\u20132<\/a><\/p>\n Shorn of commercials and other distractions, the Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Old Testament Lesson 7,\u00a0\u201cTo Be a Greater Follower of<\/em> Righteousness,\u201d on Genesis 12\u201317; Abraham 1\u20132, is now archived and available at no charge for your edification and entertainment. The panelists for this roundtable were Neal Rappleye, Jasmin Rappleye, and Hales Swift, with special guest Martin Tanner. This roundtable was extracted from the 3 January 2022 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. The complete broadcast (absent the commercials and other such interruptions) may be heard at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-January-3-2022\/<\/a>. The Interpreter Radio Show can be heard in Salt Lake County each and every Sunday evening from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or, if you\u2019re located anywhere else on Earth, you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.\u00a0 If you\u2019re trying to listen in from space, there may be delays according to your distance from the Salt Lake Valley.\u00a0 The Interpreter Foundation disclaims any responsibility for such delays.\u00a0 They are the result of seemingly immutable laws of nature.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cCome, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps Lesson 7, February 7-February 13: Genesis 12\u201317; Abraham 1\u20132 \u2014\u00a0\u201cTo Be a Greater Follower of Righteousness\u201d<\/em>\u201c<\/a><\/p>\n Another generous contribution from Jonn Claybaugh<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Nibley Lectures: Come, Follow Me Old Testament Lesson 7 \u201cTo Be a Greater Follower of Righteousness\u201d: Genesis 12\u201317; Abraham 1\u20132<\/a><\/p>\n During the Winter Semester of 1986 at Brigham Young University, Dr. Hugh W. Nibley, at the time a professor emeritus of ancient scriptures, at Brigham Young University, presented a series of 26 lectures to an Honors class on The Pearl of Great Price. This class was videotaped in the Maeser Building and made available by FARMS as both video and audio recordings. The text was then transcribed and included in Ancient Documents and the Pearl of Great Price<\/em>, published by Deseret Book.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I find myself curiously serene about this prospect:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhat climate change means for the future of coffee and other popular foods: While farming coffee will be more challenging in a warmer climate, some countries will be able to grow more cashews and avocados, a new study finds.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I continue to go through previous blog entries here, extracting entries that I think have continuing relevance to topics on which I\u2019m writing.\u00a0 Here are two more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The first comes from the astronomer and physicist Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001), who was typically an overt atheist.\u00a0 As time went by, however, he appeared to mellow, and to have Doubts:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Would you not say to yourself, in whatever language supercalculating intellects use, \u201cSome supercalculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be less than 1 part in 10<\/b>40000<\/sup><\/b><\/span>.\u201d \u00a0Of course you would. . . . \u00a0I have always been intrigued by the remarkable relation of the 7.65 Mev energy level in the nucleus of\u00a0<\/b>12<\/sup><\/b><\/span>C to the 7.12 Mev level in\u00a0<\/b>16<\/sup><\/b><\/span>O. If you wanted to produce carbon and oxygen in roughly equal quantities by stellar nucleosynthesis, these are the two levels you would have to fix . . . \u00a0A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. \u00a0<\/b>[Sir Fred Hoyle, \u201cThe Universe: Past and Present Reflections,\u201d\u00a0Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics <\/i>20 (September 1982): 16]<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The second comes from the relatively recently departed\u00a0Freeman J. Dyson (1923-2020), an eminent English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician who was associated for many years with Princeton\u2019s Institute for Advanced Study:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. \u00a0The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. \u00a0Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. \u00a0Both leave out essential features of the real world. \u00a0And both are worthy of respect. . . . \u00a0 Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. \u00a0Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. \u00a0By their arrogance they bring both science and religion into disrepute. \u00a0The media exaggerate their numbers and importance. \u00a0The media rarely mention the fact that the great majority of religious people belong to moderate denominations that treat science with respect, or the fact that the great majority of scientists treat religion with respect so long as religion does not claim jurisdiction over scientific questions.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And please don\u2019t forget that tomorrow, 2 February, is Groundhog Day.\u00a0 Perhaps you\u2019ll find time to watch the great film that bears that title.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a blog entry about it that I posted several years ago:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And I\u2019m not the only one who thinks so:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cA Movie for All Time,\u201d by Jonah Goldberg<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Of course, that\u2019s not denying that there are some other good ones out there, like\u00a0Das Leben der Anderen<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and the original\u00a0Manchurian Candidate<\/a>.<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n