Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1032

“Some Thoughts on ‘Bracketing’ and the Relationship of Reason and Revelation”

    A nice piece from Neal Rappleye:   http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/201...   Posted from San Francisco, California    

“Biblical Archaeology’s Top Ten Discoveries of 2014″

    You may or may not have heard of these items, but this is a very handy and interesting annotated list:   http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2...   Posted from San Francisco, California    

Ted Koppel: Mormons are ready for massive power grid failure and economic crisis

    http://www.sltrib.com/home/3038794-15...   Incidentally, I typically shoot most of the people who approach my house, just to keep my skills up for when they’re really needed.   Posted from San Francisco, California    

Other peoples’ religious beliefs conflict with science. Mine don’t, of course.

    This extremely interesting study was kindly brought to my attention by Wally Paxton:   http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/22...   It seems that irreligious people are more certain that religion conflicts with science than religious people are.   Posted from San Francisco, California    

Esse quam videri

    “I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.” St. Ignatius of Antioch   Posted from San Francisco, California    

Elder Ballard’s supposed anti-Catholic bigotry

    You may or may not have noticed the very recent tempest — there’s always a tempest, but its focus constantly changes — concerning a brief, passing, unscripted remark made during February 2014 by Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Council of Twelve in Buenos Aires, Argentina.   Referring to Catholics, he remarked before a [Read More...]

New Testament 276

  Matthew 21:23-27 Mark 11:27-33 Luke 20:1-8 Compare John 2:18-22   These passages represent the chief priests and scribes of Jerusalem in Jesus’ day as rather cynical political calculators.   But they also raise another matter: the issue of authority.  Some visions of earliest Christianity suggest (or say outright) that “authority” meant nothing to Jesus and [Read More...]

Why the government and everybody else ought to care about the health of the family

    Two stimulating articles on the topic:   “Family Structure Matters — Science Proves It”   “For Shame: Catherine Rampell and the Debate We’re Not Having Over Halting the Decline of Marriage”   Posted from San Francisco, California    

“Equal Opportunity Terrorism: The Islamic State’s Female Officials”

    Many people imagine that the so-called Islamic State is a clear-cut case of men using religion to oppress and exploit women.  Well, unfortunately it’s nowhere near that simple.  Some of the most poisonous and evil people in the leadership of the Islamic State are — amazingly enough — themselves women.  And, in at [Read More...]

“Making It All Up: The Behavioral Sciences Scandal”

    I read this stunning, devastating, article while flying over Nevada today:   http://www.weeklystandard.com/article...   If the physical sciences were as ideologically-driven and devoid of rigor as this piece suggests the behavioral sciences to be, I wouldn’t have survived to read it.  Firemen would still be trying to extinguish the flames from the twisted metal [Read More...]