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> For all the crap that religions get for believing in nonsense Curiously, Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) have taught for over a century that essentially the
by umvi 6y ago
> For all the crap that religions get for believing in nonsense
Curiously, Latter Day Saints (aka Mormons) have taught for over a century that essentially the Big Bang theory is incorrect and that matter has always existed and that when the Earth was created God simply "organized" existing matter rather than conjuring something out of nothing.
Putting aside their other beliefs I thought this was an interesting curiosity in this context.
- mrkstu 6y agoYep- there is a reason there are so many Mormon sci-fi authors and why Mormons are one of the few religions where engagement increases with education. Growing up LDS there was never any existential angst as I became more educated and there was never a need to overcome any cognitive dissonance as I learned evolution or cosmology- the baseline belief is a very sci-fi one of the first super-consciousness (God) taking upon itself the shaping of spiritual (dark matter?) and then physical matter and making pathways for other intelligences to master the same. No ex-nihilo involved. Even if the LDS specific conceptions have all the details wrong, the overarching idea is completely plausible.