THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS AND SCIENCE
A TRILOGY OF RECONCILIATION APPROACHES
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The methods used by the LDS faith to gain a testimony about its teachings have much in common with the scientific method, but with significant differences,. This reconciliation approach seeks to:: 1) To compare and contrast the different approaches to determine what is true that the LDS religion and science respectively use; 2) To illustrate how and why seekers of truth should use all sources of truth including the scriptures; expert opinion, empirical evidence, logic, reason, and pragmatism plus personal revelation, in their search for truth. 3) To identify a theoretical mechanics of how God communicates with mankind in prayer and personal revelation. 4) To explain why LDS cosmology requires that God be able to communicate and travel faster than the speed of light. 5) To provide a theoretical explanation, based on scientific theories, as to how God might be able to travel and communicate faster than the speed of light. 6) To provide a theoretical explanation as to how God can hear and answer the prayers of billions of His spiritual children: 7) To explain how Einstein’s theory of special relativity relates to God’s perspective of time and affects His communications with mankind. It also strongly suggests where the Celestial Kingdom (heaven) might be located in the cosmos.
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The first section of the trilogy deals with epistemology. The approaches to determine what is true in the author’s religion and science use are discussed, and shown to be somewhat similar. The fundamental beliefs of both religion and science are based on metaphysical assumptions that cannot be proven true with empirical evidence. In the second part of the trilogy, seven essential metaphysical assumptions of the author’s faith are discussed. They are shown to be reasonable beliefs based on respected theories of quantum physics, relativity, the big bang, superstrings, evolution, psychology, geology and anthropology. The third section of the trilogy deals with beliefs about the creation of the earth. Each of the seven days of the creation story in Genesis are reinterpreted based on the finding of science, and beliefs of the LDS Church. This includes a form of evolution and pre-Adamic man. It is consistent with the writer's religious faith.
About the Author
The motivation to wright a book seeking to reconcile the author’s faith in God and his church with his love of learning, began with a fear that the sciences were showing that his faith was foolish. This led to a life of study in many areas of science, philosophy and religion Books in the author’s library which contributed to this effort are included in the bibliography. The author graduated with high honors with an MBA in Finance from California State University, Los Angeles. After extensive training in credit analysis he had management positions in International Banking, Credit Administration, and Financial Institutions, at the same bank but with a variety of bank owners and bank names.. He developed several complicated computer systems to keep track of foreign country exposure, to automate the credit analysis of domestic and foreign banks, and to automate foreign country risk analysis.