Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 880

“The evidence for Jesus is early and powerful”

    I confess that I just don’t see much point to the notion — increasingly popular, it seems, on the web — that there was no historical person corresponding to Jesus of Nazareth.   Although I obviously don’t, it’s quite easy enough to reject claims of his deity without feeling any obligation whatever to [Read More...]

“When Jesus purged the temple at Jerusalem”

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel    

“Catholics, LDS stand together on issues ‘good for America,’ archbishop says”

    http://m.deseretnews.com/article/8656...   I couldn’t agree more.  And I believe that such agreement is essential, as is making common cause, where we can — which is often — in order to advance and nourish our shared values.   Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel    

A curiously lawful universe

    “People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature-the laws of physics-are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least they do not do so in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as [Read More...]

“Paul and his list of eyewitnesses”

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel    

Sen. Robert Bennett

    I was saddened very much, just now, to read this news:   It was because I knew that he was extremely ill that I recently published the following column:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/86...   I was gratified to learn that he was aware of what I had written, and that he was even pleased by it. [Read More...]

Flowing from a scientific sense of wonder

    “This sense of wonder leads most scientists to a Superior Being – der Alte, the Old One, as Einstein affectionately called the Deity – a Superior Intelligence, the Lord of all Creation and Natural Law.” Abdus Salam, 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics   Posted from Tel Aviv, Israel    

Scientific discoveries and religion

    “A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.” Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.     Posted from Jerusalem    

“The Ancient Art of Misleading by Selective Citation”

    Greg Smith gives some exotic folks yet another reason to hate him:   http://blog.fairmormon.org/2016/04/29...   Posted from Jerusalem    

A new director for the Maxwell Institute

    Almost exactly four years ago, while I was here in Jerusalem, I received an email removing me as editor of the FARMS Review (which had recently become the Mormon Studies Review).  That email launched a process that, in short order, forced me altogether out of an organization to which I had given a substantial [Read More...]