{"id":4663,"date":"2008-07-15T19:21:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2009-07-26T18:58:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T23:58:51","slug":"posts-you-might-have-missed-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/posts-you-might-have-missed-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Posts You Might Have Missed 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were too busy celebrating Bastille Day to keep up with your required blog reading, here are a few posts to notice.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebysteve.net\/?p=43\">What is science?<\/a> asks a practicing LDS biologist.  It is a language game and a way of speaking about the world.  It devises models of reality and tests them against data from the assumed real world.  It provides probability rather than certainty:  &#8220;It gives you the odds that things are a certain way.&#8221;  But &#8220;its successes speak for themselves&#8221; and &#8220;[w]hen you bet against well-established findings in science, you&#8217;re playing risky odds.&#8221;  So &#8230; bet on science.  Unless you think <a href=\"http:\/\/ndbf.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/not-good-bet.html\">science is not always a good bet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you like Barkeresque restatements of Old Testament history, read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davidjlarsen.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/15\/the-priestly-suppression-of-ancient-truths\/\">The Priestly Suppression of Ancient Truths<\/a>.&#8221;  It revolves around that burning question: <strong>Whatever happened to Zerubbabel?<\/strong>  The standard story is that the last thing the Persians (who governed) wanted was a local Israelite leader on the scene with pretensions to the kingship, so Z. was quickly removed (although this is not spelled out in Ezra and Nehemiah).  This post tells a different story, suggesting it was a vast right-wing Zadokite priestly conspiracy to usurp power from the rightful Davidic line.<\/p>\n<p>Quick links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newsnet.byu.edu\/story.cfm\/69001\">Who said<\/a> BCC is just anecdotes and short stories?  JNS reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bycommonconsent.com\/2008\/07\/knowledge-of-the-book-of-mormon\/\">the results of a 2000-respondent survey<\/a> about what Mormons seem to know, or not, about the Book of Mormon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/more-instructions-to-protect-marriage.html\">Another report<\/a> on Prop 8 encouragement at an LDS sacrament meeting in California.<\/li>\n<li>Given how much shelf space has been given to pro-SSM posts lately, you owe it to yourself to read <a href=\"http:\/\/mormonmatters.org\/2008\/07\/08\/the-case-for-marriage\/\">this summary of The Case for Marriage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were too busy celebrating Bastille Day to keep up with your required blog reading, here are a few posts to notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"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-4663","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\/4663","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9060,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/9060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}