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March 2021

March 10, 2021

“I think life is basically worthless.”

Here are a trio of interesting items regarding the recent three-part Netflix documentary...

March 09, 2021

“Materialists and madmen never have doubts.”

*** But, first: Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter...

March 02, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part Two)

Continued from "A Note on Evidence (Part One)": I've tried to explain...

February 2021

February 28, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part One)

There is a zealous atheist who comments multiple times daily on my blog. ...

January 2021

January 28, 2021

The Saving Power of Atheism

With all my heart, I beg those who are heading down this path...

October 2020

October 04, 2020

“Even if we cannot prove them with absolute certainty”

Yet another passage from Alister McGrath's "Twilight of Atheism" talk as it appears,...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

Atheism as Wonderfully Good News . . .

I confess that I've never understood the exultation and evangelical zeal that some...

August 2020

August 20, 2020

Of reductionism, “meat wads,” and “cockroaches”

"I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with...

August 11, 2020

The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of Modern Science

Gemli wonders why anyone cares what people from the 17th century thought about...

August 01, 2020

On Invoking the “Gutzon Borglum” of the Gaps

Humans always want to know “why.” Especially children. It seems that it's an...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

“Science has taken on the role of mankind’s deliverer.”

“Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded...

June 23, 2020

Four really challenging quotations

First, I share two quotations from two very vocal atheists. The first comes...

June 22, 2020

“Atheism . . . turned out to be the most irrational of the choices.”

Sam LeFevre kindly brought the following interview with Francis Collins M.D., Ph.D., to...

June 01, 2020

Scientific reductionism and common sense

The late Cornell University historian of science William Provine (1942-2015) was not only...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

On the late Christopher Hitchens

Curtis White, who identifies himself as an atheist, had some very interesting things...

May 27, 2020

What’s at stake?

For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life,...

May 24, 2020

Scientism versus Scientism’s Caricature of Christian Theism

A note from the British Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton's 2008 Terry Lectures...

May 02, 2020

“There is this God, and this God actually helps to make sense of things.”

I've often had occasion here and elsewhere to mention the prolific Alister McGrath,...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

“Can An Atheist Be a Good Citizen?”

New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: In God’s Image and...

April 11, 2020

Jesus mythicism, yet again

I published this article in the Deseret News on Christmas Day 2014. So,...

April 07, 2020

“There is no ultimate meaning for humans.”

A couple of quotations extracted from Michael Augros, The Immortal in You: How...

April 06, 2020

“Two kinds of thinkers”

Newly published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: In God’s Image...

March 2020

March 03, 2020

Three wonderful passages from Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Three passages excerpted for my notes from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, unabridged,...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

“God and mr. hitchens,” again

I've been asked by a reader to substantiate my lack of admiration for...

February 02, 2020

“Cosmic Optimism”

I published this column back in the late 1990s, in the Provo Daily...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

“Faith of the Fatherless”?

I originally published this column in Provo's Daily Herald, back around 14 April...

January 10, 2020

Who really cares?

I published this column in Provo's Daily Herald all the way back in...

November 2019

November 18, 2019

The collapse of French Catholicism

I was struck by Theodore Dalrymple's review of Jérôme Fourquet's L'archipel française: naissance...

November 14, 2019

Too short

My wife and I are just back from the Brigham Young University campus,...

November 10, 2019

Werner Heisenberg on Religion

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), who earned his doctorate in physics at the University of...