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2022-12-21T12:41:36-07:00

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“Reflections on the Importance of Scientific and Theological Humility”

Last updated on: December 21, 2022 at 12:41 pm   By Dan Peterson

    Last night, my wife and I attended the first evening of the annual three-night Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir program in the magnificent and magnificently decorated Conference Center in Salt Lake City.  We thoroughly enjoyed it.  The special guests this year are Lea Salonga and Sir David Suchet, and they were very good.  Every year, the program includes narration of the Nativity story, as recounted in the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke; Sir David did it... Read more

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2022-12-16T20:32:40-07:00

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Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (2)

Last updated on: December 16, 2022 at 8:32 pm   By Dan Peterson

    Yesterday, I posted a brief preliminary note inspired by and drawing 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).  It concerned the modern collapse of confidence in the “certainty” of mathematics and logic, which have surely seemed the most certain of all human intellectual pursuits.  But I didn’t finish my note, and so I continue it here.   This is... Read more

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2022-12-16T20:30:57-07:00

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Are logic and mathematics purely rational? (1)

Last updated on: December 16, 2022 at 8:30 pm   By Dan Peterson

    The following went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks: “The Scale of Creation in Space and Time,” given by John S. Lewis In this presentation, which was given at the 9 November 2013 Interpreter Symposium on Science and Mormonism: Cosmos, Earth, and Man, the distinguished planetary scientist John S. Lewis, an adult convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, discusses several aspects of the creation stories in scripture for... Read more

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2022-12-13T17:42:56-07:00

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“More protective than any pill, than any therapy, than any program.”

Last updated on: December 13, 2022 at 5:42 pm   By Dan Peterson

    But, first, here are three items that went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Nibley Lectures:  Time Vindicates the Prophets — Prophets and Reformers Between 7 March 1954 and 17 October 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of thirty weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also published as pamphlets. The series, which was called “Time Vindicates the Prophets,” was given in answer to those who were challenging the right of members of the Church... Read more

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2022-12-12T21:47:05-07:00

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Big News

Last updated on: December 12, 2022 at 9:47 pm   By Dan Peterson

    If you haven’t yet watched this eighteen-minute video from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I encourage you to do so between now and the end of Christmas day.  If you already have, but not recently, it would probably be worth seeing it again.  And it would be very good if you were to share it with family and friends, in and out of the Church.  I think that it’s one of the best official Latter-day... Read more

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2022-12-12T22:48:24-07:00

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“This single truth”

Last updated on: December 12, 2022 at 10:48 pm   By Dan Peterson

    For the past several years, Jeri Covey and her husband, Stephen M. R. Covey, have invited us to the annual Christmas dinner and musical event that they put on at their home.  We were there again last night.  For this year, along with a wonderful spread of food, they had a BYU faculty/staff male quartet that performed together and individually, along with superb pianists, a violin soloist, a chamber orchestra of (I think) BYU students, and at least... Read more

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2022-12-12T22:36:04-07:00

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I’ll never forget Kate What’s-Her-Name

Last updated on: December 12, 2022 at 10:36 pm   By Dan Peterson

    We held our quarterly Interpreter Foundation Board meeting this morning.  It was very pleasant to welcome two new members — Matt Bowen and Jim Graham —  to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.  There are really interesting things on the horizon.  (See here for biographies of the current members of the Interpreter Board.)   ***   It seems that a former student of mine — Dan McClellan, who was an impressive participant in a seminar on “celestial ascents” that... Read more

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2022-12-09T22:53:43-07:00

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“The Words of Gad the Seer”

Last updated on: December 9, 2022 at 10:53 pm   By Dan Peterson

    A new article went up today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:  “The Words of Gad the Seer: An Apparently Ancient Text With Intriguing Origins and Content,” written by Jeff Lindsay Review of Meir Bar-Ilan, Words of Gad the Seer (Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Publishing, 2016); Christian Israel, The Words of Gad the Seer: Bible Cross-Reference Edition (self-published, 2020); and Ken Johnson, Ancient Book of Gad the Seer: Referenced in 1 Chronicles 29:29 and Alluded to in 1 Corinthians 12:12... Read more

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2022-12-08T21:14:33-07:00

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Videos of the Tenth-Birthday Party for the Interpreter Foundation

Last updated on: December 8, 2022 at 9:14 pm   By Dan Peterson

©   On Saturday, 17 September 2022, we held a special tenth-birthday party for the Interpreter Foundation at the Riverside Country Club in Provo.  (Our tenth birthday had actually occurred the previous month.)  Invited guests included Foundation volunteers and major donors. Unfortunately, limitations of space and budget precluded us from inviting everybody who has stepped forward to support and advance the work of the Foundation.  So we’re now making video recordings of the event freely accessible to all who might... Read more

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2022-12-08T21:31:13-07:00

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Science, Religion, Agency, and Flowers

Last updated on: December 8, 2022 at 9:31 pm   By Dan Peterson

    Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   Conference Talks: “Science, Religion, and Agency,” originally delivered by Richard N. Williams in 2013 Almost all conceptions of human agency are rooted in libertarianism and grounded in a set of assumptions about the nature of the non-human world, the nature of causality, and the nature of determinism. The effect of this is that agency is always understood around two mutually exclusive positions, compatibilism and incompatibilism. Within this... Read more

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