Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1081

“Ant knows how to self-medicate to fight off fungal infection”

    This is a weird one:   https://www.newscientist.com/article/...   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah    

“The natural ‘temples’ of the Grand Canyon”

    This weekend’s Hamblin-Peterson column in the Deseret News:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   It’s already irritated a pair of irritable atheists.   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah    

“Video tour gives first look inside newly renovated Mexico City Temple”

    http://lds.net/blog/faith/video-tour-...   Posted from Salt Lake City, Utah    

A night to remember

    After four days of BYU Education Week lectures on Omar Khayyam, al-Ghazali, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and Farid al-Din Attar, I had another fun experience tonight:   At the kind invitation of Elder Marlin K. Jensen, formerly of the First Quorum of the Seventy and former Church Historian and Recorder, I spoke to the [Read More...]

“The greatest good you can do for another”

    The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli Salt Lake City, Utah    

“Sources: No. 2 ISIS leader likely killed in Iraq”

      This won’t end the organization.  It probably won’t even break its stride very much.  Not for now, anyway.  Still, it’s a fairly big deal:   http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/21/middlee...    

New Testament 246

    John 8:37-47   This is very forceful teaching.   Jesus is again saying that biological parentage means virtually nothing if one has the wrong spiritual “parentage.”   For people who took their special status as the “chosen people” so seriously, to be told that their real father — in this sense, the only [Read More...]

“The case for complex dark matter”

    What in the world is dark matter?   https://www.quantamagazine.org/201508...    

“The Treason of the Geographers: Mythical ‘Mesoamerican’ Conspiracy and the Book of Mormon”

    Another week, and another article in Interpreter:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/the-...   This one, I predict, won’t be well received in some circles.    

New Testament 245

    John 8:30-36   I’ll note two ideas in this passage:   First is the concept that knowing the truth makes one free — and that, by implication, ignorance of the truth is a kind of bondage.  That’s remarkable, actually.   And the more important the truth in question, the richer the freedom (or [Read More...]