The Faith of a Scientist Henry Eyring

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Selections from the author’s larger book of the same name. In September 1919, Henry Eyring’s father told him, “You go to the University of Arizona and learn everything you can, and whatever is true is a part of the gospel.” Henry took that advice and eventually became a widely respected scientist. Elder Neal A. Maxwell, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, once called Henry Eyring “the most distinguished Mormon scientist of this dispensation.” Now, with his characteristic candor and humor, Henry Eyring discusses various aspects of science, religion, and life. Some of his topics are truth, heredity, and environment, communication, freedom through obedience, the Church, Church leaders, work, the scriptures, the age of the earth, organic evolution, nature, and revelation and miracles. Especially intersting are his illustrations of how science and religion complement rather than detract from one another, and how the principles of both can be used to live a happier, more abundant life. This book will be welcomed by those seeking to understand the sometimes confusing relationship of science and religion, and by those who enjoy, as the author expresses it, “the spirit of true religion, an honest seeking after knowledge of all things of heaven and earth.”