Christmas Card from Siple Station, Antarctica
March 27, 2018Awake all night where no night conies
she trasmits waves into the sky
from sixty feet beneath snow.
Some arc into the solar winds
DiaBLOGue
The Human Genome Project, Modern Biology, and Mormonism: A Viable Marriage?
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 61–71
THE WORLD IS RAPIDLY CHANGING as new technologies change the way we think, act, and live. This is particularly true with the many changes biology has wrought in our lives over the last few years.
Syllabus
March 27, 2018Astronomy
The earth
Or sky wobbles,
We don’t know which
Mormonism and the New Creationism
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 39–59
This paper will deal with a more specific form of creationism, which is often termed “creation science” or “scientific creationism” (these terms
will be used synonymously).
The Mormon Myth of Evil Evolution
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 19–38
In the years since this event, I’ve found that there are a number of members who believe that evolution is a doctrine of the devil.
Thoughts on Mormonism, Evolution, and Brigham Young University
March 27, 2018Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 1–18
Well, I was raised in a rather unscientific environment , a little farming community.
Hugh Nibley | Boyd Jay Petersen, Hugh Nibley: “A Consecrated Life”
March 27, 2018This authorized biography of one of Mormonism’s greatest minds and most prolific scholars is a wonderfully accessible entry point to the life and work of Hugh Nibley. Boyd Jay Petersen, married to Nibley’s youngest daughter,…
A Landmark in Mormon Thought | Blake T. Ostler, Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 1: The Attitudes of God
March 27, 2018It is difficult to make comparisons between previous works in LDS philosophy and theology and Blake Ostler’s Exploring Mormon Thought: The Attributes of God. This is the first volume in a projected trilogy that will include…
Mormon Polygamy and the American Constitution | Sarah Barringer, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America
March 27, 2018The Mormon Question is a good book: smart, amusing and yet sensitive to pathos, full of new insights about an old subject—the clash of Mormon polygamy and American law. Sarah Barringer Gordon has taken the…
Mormonism, Death, Salvation, and Exaltation | Douglas J. Davies, The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory
March 27, 2018Douglas Davies “gets” Mormonism, as demonstrated by his latest book. This book is not his first. Mormon Spirituality: Latter-day Saints in Wales and Zion was published in 1987 and is also a must for scholars…