John P. Pratt The Book of Abraham claim about planetary “set times” leads to startling evidence for design by a Creator. Planetary periods, and even some intervals between conjunctions, are multiples of two sacred time units. In last month’s article[1] we summarized the Lord’s revelation on astronomy as recorded in the Book of Abraham …
Read more »John P. Pratt How Can We Know Truth? John P. Pratt Overwhelmed in this modern information explosion, how can we know the truth? How can we know what is true? Every day we are constantly bombarded with advertising making promising claims. Are they true? We see the news supposedly reporting objectively on reality. But just …
Read more »John P. Pratt There might be a truly spectacular meteor shower during the pre-dawn hours of November 18, 1999. But it is not expected to rival the impressive meteor shower which occurred when the saints were expelled from Jackson County, Missouri in 1833. Have you ever wanted to see a truly spectacular meteor shower? …
Read more »John P. Pratt Did God Write the Laws of Physics? John P. Pratt Last month I asked three “scientific” questions and left the challenge to find the answers in the L.D.S. scriptures. Here are the best answers of which I am aware. Laws of Physics Did God write the laws of physics or are …
Read more »John P. Pratt Enoch, Abraham, and Moses all had revelations on astronomy, and Joseph Smith called the first newspaper of the Church The Evening and the Morning Star. Why this preoccupation with the heavens? When Abraham gazed into the Urim and Thummim, he was swept away in a vision of the heavens. Beyond the …
Read more »Ronald P. Millett and John P. Pratt Prairie dogs use a sophisticated vocabulary in their warning barks, which again raises the question of whether mankind alone communicates by audible language. The ability to formulate and use language has long been considered to be a key differentiating characteristic that distinguishes man from animals. Although that argument …
Read more »John P. Pratt Abraham’s great vision on astronomy revealed the design of the heavens and can be summarized as three truths. Is the universe ruled by intelligence or chance? Modern science is currently enamored with the theory that chance rules the universe, from the tiny atomic scales of quantum mechanics to our entire universe …
Read more »John P. Pratt The planet Uranus (Chronos) not only tracks the earth’s millennia, but also testifies of precise dates for Adam and Jesus Christ. In a recent Meridian article it was pointed out that the orbit of each of the planets in our solar system appears to have been designed to keep track of …
Read more »John P. Pratt Has Satan perverted the wonderful tool of science for his own purposes? Is Satan interested in science, or does he work full time enticing people to sin, attacking religion, and deceptively enslaving the unsuspecting? One reason I chose the field of science was to avoid anything that Satan might be interested …
Read more »John P. Pratt Sir Isaac Newton, the author of classical physics and a devout Christian, interpreted the Book of Daniel, providing insights which are still profound today. Sir Isaac Newton, upon whose work nearly all of classical physics is built, was a deeply religious Christian, who saw the hand of God in all things. …
Read more »John P. Pratt Devouring Fire: Volcanoes and Scripture John P. Pratt The cover story of Discover magazine for November 1999 reviews evidence that there are several very dangerous volcanoes in the United States which are being largely ignored. The cover proclaims the warning, “When Mount Rainier blows, and it will, 100,000 people will have less …
Read more »John P. Pratt Just what is the process of creation? The Lord has not revealed many specifics of how the earth, plant and animal life, and man were created, but what he has revealed appears similar to the scientific creative process used for many modern inventions. Just what is meant by “creation”? What is …
Read more »Ronald P. Millett, Eldon G. Lytle, and John P. Pratt Native American tradition combined with scientific decoding methods indicate that “rock art” is really a sophisticated form of writing. The life-long research into Native American petroglyphs by LaVan Martineau, an orphan adopted into the Paiute tribe of southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah, has resulted in …
Read more »John P. Pratt A precise Nephite calendar is proposed which provides exact dates from Lehi to Christ. The dates for King Benjamin’s speech and for the angel’s visit to Amulek witness that it may be correct. The Book of Mormon contains a totally self-consistent Nephite chronology throughout their thousand-year history, but scholars have been …
Read more »John P. Pratt Brain scans taken during certain religious experiences indicate a detachment from the physical world. What are the implications? A new flurry of books, magazine articles and television documentaries announces the discovery that the human brain is apparently ready-made for spiritual experiences. One article on the subject was in Reader’s Digest last …
Read more »John P. Pratt Research indicates that this is the year for the millennial Feast of Trumpets on the Enoch Calendar. What is the significance of that feast, and who are the angels who sound the seven trumpets? The previous two articles in this series discussed a proposed model for the calendar described in the …
Read more »John P. Pratt Decision Days Ahead? John P. Pratt With every passing day, we are being more pressured to choose whether or not we will serve the true and living God. The days of fence-sitting seem to be swiftly drawing to a close. The U.S. Senate just voted on whether the people of the …
Read more »John P. Pratt The Venus Calendar may provide a scientific method of precisely determining the chronology in the Book of Genesis, beginning with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The Book of Genesis provides us with a detailed chronology in the genealogies included, and through modern revelation we know that the book was not …
Read more »John P. Pratt The recent scientific discovery of how to petrify wood in a few days has again raised the question of just how long the process takes in nature. Suppose you were walking through Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, and among all of the petrified trees, you found a petrified squirrel. Suppose …
Read more »John P. Pratt The four “royal stars” are the bright stars in the four cornerstone constellations discussed in Part I. The Book of Enoch explains that the stars are named for the Lord’s most faithful servants, and the constellation symbolism is clear enough to indicate just who these stars represent. In Part I of …
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