{"id":4007,"date":"2007-08-04T14:52:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2007-08-10T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T17:58:50","slug":"the-language-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/08\/the-language-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something interesting in the current Deseret Book catalog.<!--more-->  As you probably know, almost all of the titles featured in the catalog are published by Deseret, but they seem to pick up a few non-DB, non-LDS books each time.  So in addition to The Reagan Diaries, they are featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence\/dp\/1416542744\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-4701401-6670460?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1186253139&#038;sr=8-1\">The Language of God:  A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief<\/a>.  Here is the text from the DB catalog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This marvelous book combines a personal account of Collins&#8217;s faith and experience as a genetics researcher with discussions on more general topics of science and spirituality, especially centering around evolution.  The book argues that belief in a transcendent, personal God can and should coexist with a scientific picture of the world that includes evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh.  I haven&#8217;t read the book.  I&#8217;d like to hear from those who have.  And I also wonder why DB chose to stock this book (not to mention to feature it prominently in its catalog):  Are they interested in advancing a pro-evolution viewpoint?  Are they wanting to approach the issue of genetics (often used to Mormon bash) from a faith-promoting perspective?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something interesting in the current Deseret Book catalog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}