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Why Mormons Should Embrace Evolution: BYU Biology Professor Steven Peck

Date: 09/20/2010

Recently a young mother complained to me that a non-Mormon family member had given her children the They Might Be Giants album Here Comes Science, which contains a song about evolution called "My Brother the Ape" (check out the great cartoon music video ). She was uncomfortable with the lyrics because she felt they were incompatible with Mormonism, the Bible, America, and apple pie. Pro ...

Related Topics: Biology, By Common Consent Blog, BYU, Evolution, Flunking Sainthood, Here Comes Science, Intelligent Design, Jana Riess, Mormonism, Mormonism And Evolution, Mormons, Steven Peck, They Might Be Giants

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Robert Cargill: The Skeptic in the Sanctuary

Date: 09/10/2010

Dr. Robert Cargill and I go back several years (I tell a bit of the story here in his Noah's Ark debunking interview ). I always appreciate his perspective, because he's got pretty serious credentials as a scientist, a biblical scholar, and a man of faith. He has a seminary degree, a Ph.D. in Second Temple period archaeology, and is an expert on Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discov ...

Related Topics: Dead Sea Scrolls, James Mcgrath, Qumran, Robert Cargill

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Theology After Darwin 1 (RJS)

Date: 08/31/2010

One of the more important and more difficult pieces of the puzzle as we feel our way forward at the interface of science and faith is the theological implications of discoveries in modern science. A comment on my post Evolution in the Key of D: Deity or Deism noted: ...this reminds me of why I get annoyed so much by those who write on theology and evolution. It's usually just deism and ...

Related Topics: Evolution, Science And Faith, Theology

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Weekly Meanderings

Date: 08/28/2010

Nothing like the beauty of creation to wake us up on a Saturday morning. I hope your coffee tastes better looking at God's world. This will be our last Weekly Meanderings at Beliefnet. Next week it will be at our new site at Patheos , and that move has been consuming some of my blog-reading time but here are a few links... Jay Phelan has some insightful words about the internet ...

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Evolution in the Key of D: Deity or Deism? (RJS)

Date: 08/24/2010

This is the final post from John F. Haught's book  Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life . The last chapter of the book deals with the concept of deity - who or what is this God that imparts meaning to the underlying facts of the material world? I have been asked on a number of occasions, by e-mail, in comments, and in person, how my view of evolutionary cre ...

Related Topics: Evolution, John F. Haught, Science And Faith

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Evolution in the Key of D: Duty and Devotion (RJS)

Date: 08/19/2010

The next two chapters of John F. Haught's book  Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life deal with the topics of duty and devotion. While Haught's discussion of death left something to be desired, his discussion here is worth some thought and conversation.   Evolutionary explanations of duty and devotion reduce both to nothing more than an impulse ge ...

Related Topics: Evolution, John F. Haught

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Evolution in the Key of D: Depth and Death (RJS)

Date: 08/17/2010

This has been a busy summer for me - much more so than usual - and it has taken me a while to work through John F. Haught's book  Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life .  I find this book something of a mixed bag.  It is interesting and useful for the perspective Haught brings to thinking about a layered approach to meaning within creation, but it i ...

Related Topics: Evolution, John F. Haught

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Evolution: A Remarkable History (not by RJS)

Date: 07/29/2010

Yes, you read the title for this post right. This is SMcK and not RJS, but this post is on evolution. Why? Because I just finished reading Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles) , and found the book's story -- and the theory of evolution's history -- fascinating. Whether you dip into the Cuvier or Lamarck, or whether you focus on Darwin' ...