by Jonathan Cannon | Feb 17, 2014 | Faith, Featured, Gospel Topics, Natural Theology, Revelation, Theology, Transhumanism |
First Post Previous Post Next Post Assumptions about God Omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. Dogma in our modern understanding is pretty much just another way of saying “arbitrary assumptions”. According to a Pew Research Foundation survey on religion...
by Jonathan Cannon | Jan 22, 2014 | Faith, Featured, Gospel Topics, Mormonism, Natural Theology, Revelation, Theology, Transhumanism |
In this third part of my discussion of cosmic assumptions, I explain that not all infinities are created equal. I discuss different sizes of infinity, variation among universes, and assumptions we make about evidence. See the introductory post, here, and the follow...
by Jonathan Cannon | Jan 20, 2014 | Featured, Gospel Topics, Natural Theology, Transhumanism |
You’ve probably heard the saying: “When you assume . . . you make a sum of As and e.” For you non-chemists, that would be arsenic plus one electron making an arsenic ion with a charge of negative one. That’s not a very stable ion, so it’s...
by Jared Mooney | Jan 2, 2014 | Agency, Charity, Faith, Faith Crisis, Featured, Feminism, Forgiveness, Gospel Topics, Infertility, LDS Church History, LDS Missions, Mormonism, Repentance, Revelation, Temple, Theology, Transhumanism |
Most of my Mormon friends aren’t actively involved with the church. More than half of my core group of friends from high school haven’t participated since college. A surprising number of the friends I made on my mission and at BYU are now disenfranchised...
by Jared Mooney | Dec 5, 2013 | Book of Mormon, Charity, Disability, Doctrine and Covenants, Featured, Gospel Topics, LDS Church History, Mormonism, New Testament, News, Theology, Transhumanism |
My cousin posted this article on his Facebook wall this week. It’s a pretty typical post for the demographic subgroup that is “members of Peter’s immediate and extended family”, and it’s pretty innocuous in its own right. Most of my...
by Jonathan Cannon | Oct 29, 2013 | Featured, Theology, Transhumanism |
I’ve been reading The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin. In the first large portion of the book he explains five big fundamental problems in Physics, and examines how string theory has evolved to attempt to answer them. Here is his list: The problem of quantum...
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