(April 10, 2014)
Reading about the jealous offering, I am led to wonder if that was something that worked. I think that it must have, considering that it was revealed unto Moses and was (as best as I can understand) a Priesthood operation of the time. I think that sometimes we project our modern sensibilities on the past with the conceit that things as they are now are the way things that they always have been. For example, the laws of science are said to ensure that the experiment today in Montreal will have reproducible results tomorrow in Calcutta. And, by extension, the experiment would have performed similarly in the time of Moses.
But do we really know that? I have thought that there might be something akin to the double-slit paradox at work here. Prior to us examining the universe, many things happened in the world that seem magical or counter-scientific. But as mankind evolved to ‘measure’ the world around them, these measurements in some way led to predictability in ways both positive and negative.
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