Modern science and the LDS doctrine of natural law

By David H Bailey, on August 20th, 2010%

As mentioned on the main SMR website, the editor, in addition to being a researcher at a major scientific laboratory, is a member of the LDS faith. His fifth-generation ancestor was the second member of the LDS Church to be baptized in the British Isles in 1837. One interesting perspective brought to the science-religion landscape . . . → Read More: Modern science and the LDS doctrine of natural law

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There is no royal road to geometry (or biology, geology or theology)

By David H Bailey, on August 2nd, 2010%

Little is known about the great ancient mathematician Euclid. In a 5th century CE edition of Euclid’s Elements (the work that is the basis of geometry textbooks from ancient times to the present day), Proclus Lycaeus notes that when Ptolemy I (ruler of Egypt from 323 BCE – 283 BCE) grew frustrated at the degree . . . → Read More: There is no royal road to geometry (or biology, geology or theology)

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