Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1015

“The Holy City of Byzantium”

    After the conference meetings today, we went out to dinner at the rooftop restaurant of the Hotel Arcadia Blue with some of the Latter-day Saints here, including senior missionaries (among them Kent and Gayle Brown) and Sharon Eubank, who dropped in to speak at the conference here on her way back from refugee [Read More...]

“Ben Carson, Science, and Seventh-Day Adventists”

    An interesting article by Ben Spackman about Ben Carson and the history of “creation science”:   http://religionandpolitics.org/2015/1...   Posted from Istanbul, Turkey    

“What Daniel meant to the persecuted Christians”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11...   Posted from Istanbul, Turkey    

“The hangover that led to the discovery of ibuprofen”

      The story behind one of the most popular painkillers now available without a prescription:   http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34798438   Posted from Istanbul, Turkey    

Infallibility?

    The Mormons are deeply concerned only with what they accept as scripture.  Non-Mormons, raised in the tradition of the infallible Bible, are unable to conceive of a man’s being a prophet and at the same time a fallible mortal. They persist in thinking  .  .  .  that the discovery of any slightest flaw [Read More...]

“Studying the Brains of Neuroscientists”

    An amusing new study:   http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neu...   Posted from Istanbul, Turkey    

“Being a Mormon at Cambridge”

    I found this interesting partly because I’ve always loved the University of Cambridge and wish that I had been able to spend some serious time there:   http://www.varsity.co.uk/features/9299   Posted from Istanbul, Turkey    

A report from Istanbul

    What on earth am I doing in Turkey right now?   Some may have noticed that President Barack Obama is here in Turkey for the 2015 G-20 Summit.  Well, I’m here for the G20 Interfaith Summit, which is devoted to the theme of “Religion, Harmony and Sustainable Development.”  If anybody’s in town, please drop [Read More...]

“The Vision of the Tree of Life”

    In this, the 147th scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation, Jeff Bradshaw, Craig Foster, Ben McGuire, and Dan Peterson discuss 1 Nephi 8-12, 15, in connection with 2016 Gospel Doctrine lesson 3   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   Posted from Istanbul, Turkey    

“An alleged new revelation . . . in the age of . . . railways”

    Some years ago I made a long study of just what objections had been raised against Mormonism in the past. From the beginning it was always the same. Nobody was really worried about polygamy, which was in fact a welcome stick to beat the Mormons with; the ferocious denunciations from press and pulpit, [Read More...]