Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 816

Watching Io’s atmosphere collapse during a Jovian eclipse

    This is probably another place where you wouldn’t want to accept long-term employment:   http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/20...    

An observation on relativism

    “The interesting thing about those who espouse various kinds of relativism: they all seem to end up by saying, essentially, that truth, perception, etc. are relative, except of course the truth they are passionately trying to get us to perceive. That is, they fail to apply their own relativism to themselves.”  John Lennox [Read More...]

“Warfare and the Book of Mormon: A Bibliography”

    http://www.studioetquoquefide.com/201...    

An addendum regarding METI

    Thus far, two people have written to me in the light of the 2013 statement that I reposted here earlier today, seeking to know how and why, given the spiritual confirmation that I seem to claim for my Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, I eventually resigned from it.   As a matter of fact, I’ve [Read More...]

“Australian Sex Survey Asks about Your Gender” — and There Are 33 Answer Options

    http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2016/07/a...   It’s exhilarating to live in an age of such rapid scientific progress!   (LGBTQIAPK is just so . . . confining.)    

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” (Well, anyway, “tomorrow and tomorrow”)

    Just a reminder that the eighteenth-annual FairMormon conference begins tomorrow and continues through Friday:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   You surely don’t want to be the only person on your block who didn’t attend and who, therefore, has no utterly no clue what people are talking about for the next several days.  Do you?   [Read More...]

A gracious note from the new director of the Maxwell Institute

    “Debts”   This seems to me as apt an occasion as any to append something that I originally posted back in September 2013, under the title of “The Middle Eastern Texts Initative: Farewell and a Retrospective.”  I frequently run into retellings of the saga of my departure from the Maxwell Institute that are as [Read More...]

“Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options If Trump Drops Out”

    This isn’t from the Onion:   http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senior...   From my perspective, of course, ’tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.   I expect ABC’s reporting is correct, though, and that Mr. Trump isn’t actually thinking of dropping out of the race.  He is, after all, a supremely egotistical man.   But it’s not [Read More...]

The great fiction

    Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frédéric Bastiat    

He continues to dominate the news cycle.

    I want to start posting things against Hillary Clinton.  I really do.   But there’s just so much to say about The Donald!  Every single day, he makes ridiculous, ignorant, silly, crass, offensive, and revealing comments.  I can’t even keep up with him:   “Trump vs. the Khans”   “The Trump Campaign Keeps [Read More...]