Scholarship and Faith: Insights from My BYU Experience
The unique and synergistic environment of scholarship and faith at BYU has further connected those important life lessons to significant eternal truths regarding repentance and the Atonement of Jesus Christ, the wise use of agency, and how Christ makes weak things become strong.
Faith and Science: Symbiotic Pathways to Truth
If learning scientific theories puts your faith in jeopardy, choose your faith! Choose your faith until you can better understand the science—or until science can provide better explanations. I firmly believe that both truths—religious and scientific—exist in harmony.
The Education of the American Mind
Melody Barnes speaks about the compatibility of science and faith while exploring what it means to educate the American mind.
Alzheimer’s Disease: Myth, Facts, and the Future
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Why Scientists Playing Amateur Atheology Fail
Christian Smith discusses why scientists cannot disprove religion and any attempts to do so will fail. He encourages all to give each opinion a fair chance.
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life: Some Assembly Required
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Why Scientists Should Read Shakespeare and Humanists Should Understand Einstein
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Exploding Stars, Expanding Universe
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Herpetology, Biodiversity, and Human Well-Being
Jack W. Sites discusses his research on reptiles and explains that we are stewards over the biodiversity of this planet
Science, Faith, and the Nobel Prize
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The Arts, the Sciences, and the Light of the Gospel
I now view creation not as something that occurred long ago but as a process that continues today in which we are given the sacred privilege to participate.
Science and Survival
The topic that was chosen for me today is one that I would really like to talk about. There is only one minor difficulty. About three weeks ago my notes for this talk and everything else I have ever done and my home and my office were burned to the ground, so that what I am going to tell you will probably surprise me as much as it is going…
Science and Religion
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Summerhays Planetarium Dedication
While dedicating the Summerhays Planetarium, Joseph Fielding Smith posits thoughts on scientific advancement—and on keeping such advancement in perspective.
