This quote from lds.org home page moved me to think about the future (under "Prophets and Apostles Speak Today" on the right side of home page):
“We cannot see the future with precision, but we can know what the Lord intends and what it will take [for] each of us to qualify personally to participate.” -- Henry B. Eyring
I will never forget hearing President Eyring's father speak on "Science and Religion" in the LDS West Institute chapel at his beloved University of Utah. I can't remember the words (I know I ate them up), but the feeling was of admiration and awe. Professor Eyring's "... views of science and religion were captured in this quote: 'Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.' " -- en.wikipedia.org
"... There seems no reasonable alternative to the conclusion that the Creator has methods of communication which travel by other means and at speeds unknown and perhaps unknowable to mortal man. Somehow, the universe is coordinated and regulated by influences which transcend the known laws of physics. Nor should this seem strange if one remembers that such marvels as radar, radio, and the telegraph were unimaginable a century and a half ago. What wonders can we hope to unravel in the endless eternity ahead? . . . Though our knowledge of the universe is always expanding, the fundamentals of the gospel endure unchanged." -- Henry Eyring (1901 - 1981)
-- Source: Science and Your Faith in God -- Contributed by: Zaady
-- blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/henry-eyring
[Going back another generation:] He took great comfort in the advice his father gave him when he left to study mining engineering at the University of Arizona in 1919: “In this Church you don’t have to believe anything that isn’t true, . . . Whatever is true is part of the gospel. ... [Henry] was not afraid of any scientific inquiry — it would only add to our understanding and eventual discovery of the truth.” -- Henry Eyring, author -- Reviewer: Ned C. Hill
-- byustudies.byu.edu
So what surprising scientific discoveries lie in the future? Will they make us question what we know to be true?
