January 19, 1986 by •
Adam,
ancient civilization,
archaeological excavation,
archaeologist(s),
archaeology,
Bible,
Chaldean(s),
Charles Darwin,
China,
controversy,
disbelief(s),
Egyptian(s),
evidence,
evolutionary theory,
God,
history,
Hittite(s),
imagination,
impressions,
interpretation,
investigators,
Jericho,
language(s),
naive science,
Near East,
New Education Uniformity,
opinion(s),
Patriarchs,
prehistory,
prophet(s),
religion,
scholarship,
science,
scientific method,
scripture(s),
speculation,
theories,
unbelief,
uncertainty,
Victorians
9 pp. typed paper, 1965; Seventh East Press (January 18, 1982): 4-7, 12; and CWHN 1: 21-36. This is the manuscript of an essay submitted to the Instructor, and rejected, and circulated with two letters, both dated September 16, 1965, one addressed to “Dear Brother,” 1 p., and the other addressed to “Mr. W,” 5 …
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January 2, 1977 by •
Abraham,
alphabet,
ancient,
apocryphal works,
Babylonia,
Book of Mormon,
Books,
Canonicity,
Chinese,
cosmic,
creation(s),
cryptogram,
Daybooks,
Demotic,
dispensation(s),
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Enoch,
eternity,
evolution,
evolutionary,
evolutionary hypothesis,
future,
God,
heaven and earth,
heavenly book,
Heavenly Scribe,
Hebrew(s),
Hermetic,
hieratic,
hieroglyphics,
Hittite(s),
Holy books,
hostile,
house boat Life,
Imhotep,
inscriptions,
Jaredites,
Joseph Smith,
libraries,
memoranda books,
Menes,
Mesopotamia,
miracle of writing,
Moses,
Nephites,
past,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
pictographs,
picture writing,
power(s),
primordial book,
prophet(s),
proto-Elamitic,
proto-Indian,
records,
resurrection,
sacred book,
scripture(s),
Semitic,
Sent One(s),
Seshat,
Shabako stone,
synthesize,
the Book of the Foundation of Temples,
theories,
tools,
Torah,
uniformitarianism,
universe,
universities,
unknown,
view,
vizier of King Zoser,
writing miracle of,
written language,
written record(s)
(Provo: BYU Press, 1973). This was the Commissioner’s Lecture delivered in 1972. Later reprinted (without the complete footnotes) in The New Era 3:9 (September 1973): 38-50; reprinted again in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 101-127; CWHN 12: 450-490. An examination of writing as a gift from God and …
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January 1, 1900 by •
Charles Darwin,
creation(s),
creationism,
Darwinism,
evolutionary theory,
guesswork,
higher forms,
prehistoric man,
probabilities,
speculation,
systematic theology,
teleology,
theories
G-2 Report, No. 3 N. Webster: Evolution is “a manifestation of related events or ideas in an orderly succession, as in a process of growth….This theory, according to which the higher forms of animal life are derived from the lower…holds that all animals and plants are descendants of a very few simple organisms (or perhaps …
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