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2022-12-26T17:22:51-07:00

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Physics in Wonderland

Last updated on: December 26, 2022 at 5:22 pm By Dan Peterson

I now return briefly to writing up some notes that are inspired by and/or are based upon Michael Guillen’s Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Refresh, 2021). They are, as I’ve previously explained, an initial hasty and unpolished pass on the topic that they address. I’ve been getting a kick, by the way, out of the overeager attempts by some on the Peterson... Read more

2022-12-25T19:58:36-07:00

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Notes on the Nativity, and a Christmas Carol’s Back Story

Last updated on: December 25, 2022 at 7:58 pm By Dan Peterson

“Opinion: The true power of Christmas in a world filled with violence and hate: For people in Ukraine and other war-torn nations, Christmas may offer little joy this year, and yet the true power of Christmas remains the world’s great hope” “Zelensky rallies Ukrainians with defiant Christmas message after deadly Russian barrage in Kherson”: By the way, I have no patience for anybody who tries to tell me — as a dwindling number of people have tried to do... Read more

2022-12-25T20:04:14-07:00

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‘Twas the night before Christmas

Last updated on: December 25, 2022 at 8:04 pm By Dan Peterson

Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world, to show unto the world that I will fulfil all that which I have caused to be spoken by the mouth of my holy prophets. (3 Nephi 1:13) Sic et Non is absolutely rolling in the Christmas spirit. It’s difficult not to be,... Read more

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2022-12-25T08:57:44-07:00

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“Puritans, Pagans, and Imperfect Christmas Gifts”

Last updated on: December 25, 2022 at 8:57 am By Dan Peterson

For the better part of a decade now, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship has published special essays — usually more personal, and not necessarily academic — for Christmas and Easter. They always appear on the Friday prior to the holiday (or sometimes, obviously, in the case of Christmas, on the Friday of the very holiday itself). This year’s Christmas essay has now appeared, accompanied by an audio version that is read by the author: ... Read more

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2022-12-23T16:31:42-07:00

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Noting tomorrow’s anniversary of the birth of Joseph Smith

Last updated on: December 23, 2022 at 4:31 pm By Dan Peterson

Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the super-holiday of Christmas, Joseph Smith’s birthday would have been widely commemorated among contemporary Latter-day Saints in the manner of, say, Pioneer Day. I rather doubt it, but perhaps. As it is, like a celestial object that’s positioned adjacent to the sun in the daytime sky, any thoughts of Joseph’s birth that might arise among members of the Restored Church are overwhelmed by the festival of Christ’s birth and... Read more

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2022-12-24T22:10:18-07:00

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“It’s like a teeter-totter.”

Last updated on: December 24, 2022 at 10:10 pm By Dan Peterson

A new link has been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conference Talks: “Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology,” given by Ron Hellings In this Interpreter presentation, originally given in 2013, the late physicist Ron Hellings took a look at some of the teachings of Joseph Smith to try to understand these in light of modern cosmology, the study of the foundations of matter, time, and energy throughout the universe. He found reasonable ways to harmonize these perspectives,... Read more

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2022-12-23T16:42:10-07:00

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A non-Christian Christmas

Last updated on: December 23, 2022 at 4:42 pm By Dan Peterson

“The New Testament in Context Lesson 1: “We Are Responsible for Our Own Learning” In this week’s Come, Follow Me segment of Interpreter Radio, our hosts Bruce Webster, Kris Frederickson and Martin Tanner introduce our new show format. Each show will be divided into a number of segments that may vary from week to week. One segment will provide information that will supplement the study of the Come, Follow Me lesson material for 2023 and will be called “The New Testament in... Read more

2022-12-23T16:37:03-07:00

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“Unintended Corruption” and Other Quirks in Current Physics

Last updated on: December 23, 2022 at 4:37 pm By Dan Peterson

Herewith, I share some more notes that have been inspired by and/or are based upon Michael Guillen’s Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Refresh, 2021). Dr. Guillen, who grew up in East Los Angeles (not too terribly far from where I myself was raised, although he’s a few years younger than I am) before studying mathematics, physics, and astronomy at UCLA and Cornell,... Read more

2022-12-18T20:07:01-07:00

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Behind the tinsel

Last updated on: December 18, 2022 at 8:07 pm By Dan Peterson

I published this column in the Deseret News for Christmas 2016: Behind the tinsel and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, beyond Santa Claus, Christmas represents an enormously serious claim—the incarnation of God or, literally, God’s “enfleshment.” “And the Word was made flesh,” says John 1:10, “and dwelt among us.” It’s a proposition unique to Christianity among the Abrahamic religions; Judaism and Islam make no such claim about the divine. In the first chapter of Genesis, God repeatedly observes... Read more

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2022-12-17T21:04:26-07:00

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“The beginning of the end of death’s dominion”

Last updated on: December 17, 2022 at 9:04 pm By Dan Peterson

I spoke today at the U.S. Hazara Conference 2022, which was held in Provo, at the BYU Conference Center. The program describes it as “the first ever Hazara conference.” “The conference aims to gather the Hazaras across the U.S., harmonize with the interfaith groups of Utah, provide them with an interactive platform, strategize about the future of the Hazaras in the U.S., and organize the Hazara genocide case.” The Hazaras (هزاره) are a persecuted ethnic group that is... Read more

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