Posts Tagged ‘ scriptural literalism ’

In May 2007, a new museum and family discovery center was opened.  It covers 49 acres and cost an estimated $27 million to build.  It has a state-of-the-art planetarium, a 200-seat special effects theater with vibrating seats and mist, and Animatronic dinosaurs.  There are displays designed by people who worked at Universal Studios.  By its [...]

When I first started visiting Mormon Matters, there was a sidebar that would resurrect old posts for new visitors to see for the first time. One post by Jeff Spector caught my eye everytime it reappeared because it asked what people would do if they became convinced the church wasn’t true. It caught my eye [...]

I am always fascinated when Restoration scriptures make odd connections with modern science, probably because I am acutely aware of how embedded ancient “science” is in our usual interpretations of ancient scriptures. Modern approaches to scripture recognize obvious scientific errors in ancient writings, and have done so since the time of Galileo. Yet often the [...]