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Choose Your Own Universe

Choose Your Own Universe

by Jonathan Cannon | Oct 27, 2014 | Apologetics, Faith, Featured, Humanity, Natural Theology, Transhumanism | 3 comments

I have listened to and read many discussions regarding the existence or nature of God. It is one of those debates that I believe is unresolvable. The New God Argument motivates trust in God given a small number of assumptions, but doesn’t suggest much about God...
A God Is Born–Nature’s Plan of Salvation

A God Is Born–Nature’s Plan of Salvation

by Jonathan Cannon | Aug 18, 2014 | Agency, Book of Abraham, Featured, Homosexuality, Mother in Heaven, Natural Theology, Theology, Transhumanism | 9 comments

Here is my Back to School gift for you to share with your kids (or parents) in Family Home Evening. Hopefully it adds some fun to the old Primary Plan of Salvation Diagram. I’ve provided links to documents you can download or print out yourselves, as posters or...
Reason to Believe

Reason to Believe

by Jonathan Cannon | Jul 21, 2014 | Apologetics, Compassion, Faith, Featured, Natural Theology, Transhumanism | 4 comments

When I was taking Wilfred Griggs and Alan Keele’s history of civilization class (The Pen and the Sword, for anyone else who might have taken it), I thought about the idea of formal arguments to prove the existence of God for the first time in my life. I tried,...
If ye are not one

If ye are not one

by Jonathan Cannon | Jun 16, 2014 | Atonement, Charity, Compassion, Faith, Featured, Feminism, Natural Theology, Service, Technology, Transhumanism | 0 comments

First Post          Previous Post          Next Post Author’s Note: Reviewing the revision history I found that this post was completed in essentially this finished form on April 2nd, prior to General Conference and to my other posts published since that time....
The Creation Argument

The Creation Argument

by Jonathan Cannon | May 19, 2014 | Apologetics, Featured, Natural Theology, Technology, Theology, Transhumanism | 5 comments

First Post          Previous Post          Next Post Simulation Argument Before reading further, I recommend that you read this entertaining flow chart from Micah Redding illustrating the basics of the Simulation Argument, or the idea that our lives are a computer...
What’s keeping us from becoming Gods?

What’s keeping us from becoming Gods?

by Jonathan Cannon | Mar 17, 2014 | Agency, Faith, Featured, Natural Theology, Technology, Transhumanism | 7 comments

First Post Previous Post Next Post Why aren’t we Gods, yet? The list of reasons I’m not a God is pretty long, but I want to approach it from a physical perspective rather than a moral one. To do so, I want to explain to you a bit about Robin Hanson’s...
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