Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1203

Evil Muslims, most likely.

    Before you condemn Islam for the actions of the jerks who did this (and who’re probably Muslims), remember that their victim (as so often happens in such cases) is himself a Muslim.   An imam, no less.   http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/...   Thanks to Allen Hansen for bringing this story to my attention.   “If [Read More...]

God is enough

A waste of good champagne?

    Back on 17 March of this year, a team led by John Kovac of Harvard University held a press conference to announce that it had found cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over as a weak remnant of the Big Bang in which the universe as we know it came to be.   [Read More...]

Mosiah 15

    Today’s reading, Mosiah 15, forthrightly declares that “God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall credeem his people” (15:1).   Verses 2-5, however, have caused some perplexity.  They seem unclear, and some have felt that they’re inconsistent with modern Mormon “tritheism” and even with mainstream Trinitarianism.  That, in fact, [Read More...]

“A Treasure from the Past: Elder Henry B. Eyring’s 1994 Remarks on the Mission of FARMS”

    From time to time, I’m told that the Brethren were upset with “the old FARMS,” and that that’s why they ordered my dismissal from the Maxwell Institute, the successor-organization to FARMS, in 2012.   However, I know for a fact that no such order was given.  And I’m aware of no evidence to [Read More...]

“‘Most Desirable Above All Things’: Onomastic Play on Mary and Mormon in the Book of Mormon”

    Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture has just published a new article:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/most...   You can’t reasonably be surprised:  It’s Friday.   Posted from San Diego, California    

“Rome’s extraordinary ecumenical event”

    A remarkable reaction to the recent conference on families hosted by Pope Francis in Vatican City, and particularly to President Henry B. Eyring’s speech there, by a Roman Catholic woman who also attended the event:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   Posted from San Diego, California  

Mormon Women Stand

    Some of the Mormon women I know wonder why they’re not miserable, why they don’t feel oppressed, why (with all the coverage given to the Ordain Women movement and other dissidents) their voices never, ever, seem to register with the media.   If you’re among those women — women who actually like the [Read More...]

A New Testament prophecy of Muhammad?

    A reader of The Immortal Biography, having reduced his stay in Purgatory by ten thousand years through the simple but meritorious act of buying and completing that book, has posed a question.   I think the topic of the question is interesting enough that I’ll answer it here, publicly, for a general audience:   [Read More...]

“A note on the limits of archaeology”

    Today’s laughable offense against reason and common sense has been posted:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...