what is truth?
"truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were and as they are to come"
education week is blowing my mind.. just before i headed up to ed week, Rachel handed me a copy of a lecture by Eugene England.. (http://www.zionsbest.com/gospel.html) (I highly recommend that everyone read it! Go there, read it, now...)
Among many other things, England suggested in his discourse that when people refer to "the gospel" they are referring to "a perfect system of revealed doctrines and commandments based in principals which infallibly express the natural laws of the universe" He goes on to explain that the natural laws of the universe and even eternal gospel principals "appear to be fundamentally paradoxical." His point was that the church "provides the best context for struggling with, working through, enduring and being redeemed by our responses to those paradoxes and oppositions that give energy and meaning to the universe" (you simply MUST read the whole lecture...)
With all of those things in mind, today I attended a class on The Creation taught by a geologist.. it was insane! He quoted John Widtsoe who said, "scientific truth cannot be theological lie. To the sane mind, theology and philosophy must harmonize. They have common ground of truth on which to meet." He proceeded to explain that as a religious geologist he felt often like a person sitting in the middle of a fight between two sides, where he could see that both sides were actually right; but he couldn't explain to either side that they both were right! He then talked about the creation of the world from a completely scientific and religious perspective, and it was harmonious! The laws of the universe ARE paradoxical and yet, harmonious. He said that most serious and sincere scientists see it that way. The ancient Greeks realized that there was something bigger behind the creation, so they separated it into two things: the physical creation and "the mind" behind the physical creation. Einstein said that it was obvious to him that "something deeply hidden had to be beyond all things." This geologist talked about DNA. How "things which are SEEN (bodies etc) are actually made up of things which are not seen" and this is a testimony of the science of religion...
a paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox!
i cant sleep because all of these things are bouncing around in my brain!!
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