Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1094

On ordinary daily faith

    “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”  (Paulo Coelho, Brida)   Posted from Victoria, British Columbia    

A Muslim scientist centuries ahead of his time

    Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, [Read More...]

Allan Sandage on science and faith

    Allan Sandage (1926-2010) was one of the most influential astronomers of the twentieth century.  A graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the leading protégé of Edwin Hubble, he discovered the first quasar and was the first to determine reasonably accurate values for the “Hubble constant” and for the age of the [Read More...]

“My Theory of the Church’s Statement on the Change in BSA Policy”

    My former student Nate Oman trains his law-professorial eye on the recently publicized crisis in the relationship between the Boy Scouts and the Church:   http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/...   Posted from Victoria, British Columbia  

Tabgha arsonists arrested

      Some of you, I know, have been to the Church of the Multiplication — full name: The Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes — at Tabgha, on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.  And you may know that it was seriously damaged a few weeks ago, along with [Read More...]

New Testament 221

    Luke 15:11-32   This is, of course, one of the great parables in the New Testament, and, if I may say so, one of the great stories in all of literature.   It has at least two themes:   1)  It illustrates the mercy, forgiveness, and love of the father/Father.   2)  It [Read More...]

From a Catholic philosopher

    “Studying Mormonism has made me a better Christian, which is why I am eternally grateful for the teachings of Joseph Smith as well as all those scholars, church leaders, and everyday believers who have labored to maintain those teachings as a living tradition. . . .  BYU is a thriving, Christ-centered, and intellectually [Read More...]

Incomprehensible

    I’ve been reading Richard Panek’s The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality.   It’s very good.   I thought I might share a few numbers from page 36 of the book, simply because I thought them stunning:   It turns out that everything within galaxies [Read More...]

Should Christians pray for Islamist terrorists?

    Yes.   http://www.christianitytoday.com/edst...   Posted from Victoria, British Columbia    

New Testament 219-220

    Luke 15:1-10 Compare Matthew 18:12-14   There are at least three points to be drawn from these brief passages:   1)  The Lord really, really values the souls of individual people; there is nobody, not even the most unrighteous, for whom he has no concern.  (This works powerfully, I think, against certain Calvinistic suggestions that [Read More...]