THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS AND SCIENCE
A TRILOGY OF RECONCILIATION APPROACHES
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About the Book
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.