James Farmer

JAMES L. FARMER is Assistant Professor of Zoology at BYU. He received his Ph.D. in biology from Brown University and was on the faculty of the Department of Biophysics of the University of Colorado Medical Center for three years. His research interests have changed from bacterial genetics to the developmental genetics of fruit flies and blue-green algae.

Articles

Introduction

When this special issue of Dialogue was first conceived, it became evident that the phrase “science and religion” has quite different meanings for different people. It was clear that the issue could not be comprehensive…

The New Biology and Mormon Theology

Exegetes as willing and capable as Orson Pratt to combine empirical and theological insights have all but disappeared from the Mormon scene. His successors have retained the enthusiastic optimism of early Mormonism, but they have not replaced the empirical beliefs of the nineteenth century with the more correct information which is available to us now.