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469: Human Development and Parenting

Dan Wotherspoon March 21, 2018Communication, Marriage, Retreat, Science, Spirituality, Teaching Leave a Comment

Understanding human development—its tremendous scope, typical progressions, and reasons for its slowdowns or ways various forms of harm can hinder our growth—­­has many benefits. Because …

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388–389: Our Brains and Faith

Dan Wotherspoon May 18, 2017Faith, Science 1 Comment

Our faith lives, including how we orient toward the world, God/Spirit (or whatever we consider the highest center(s) of value and power), and ourselves, are …

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BrainBridge BuildingCognitive ScienceFour QuadrantsFour QuestionsHidden MotivatorsLDSmormonUnconscious Processes

137–138: Science and Religion

Dan Wotherspoon November 5, 2012Science 37 Comments

What is science? What is religion? What are the methods/disciplines and underlying assumptions that animate each? What does each investigate? What practices and institutions does …

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EmpiricismethicsLDSMetaphysicsmormonNOMAreligionRichnessscienceSpiritual Discipline

81-82: Mormonism and Transhumanism

Dan Wotherspoon March 13, 2012Mythology, Science 93 Comments

Technological advancements in recent decades have drastically altered human experience, with computing power and many other technologies growing at exponential rates. Our lives will continue …

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EvolutionFutureLDSmormonmythreligionscienceSingularitytechnologyTranshumanism

77-78: Recognizing “the Spirit”

Dan Wotherspoon March 7, 2012Holy Ghost, Science 61 Comments

Most of us were raised with the idea that even amidst all of life’s confusion, if we live in a certain way and follow clear …

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Brain FunctioningCognitive BiasemotionHoly GhostHoly SpiritLDSmormonNeurosciencepersonal revelationpsychology

48: Mormonism and Evolution

Dan Wotherspoon August 23, 2011Science 74 Comments

This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the controversies over the study and teaching of evolution at Brigham Young University that resulted in the …

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BYU organic evolution controversycreationEvolutionHenry PetersonJoseph PetersonLDSmormonRalph ChamberlinreligionsciencescriptureWilliam Chamberlin

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