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November 2019

November 08, 2019

Thoughts on John Lennon’s “Imagine”

I published the following article in the Deseret News back on 16 August...

November 07, 2019

Theism and Atheism, Islam and Communism

I've been challenged repeatedly over the years by people attempting to equate Islam with Communism...

November 07, 2019

Why do Latter-day Saints tend to reject evolution?

My attention was called some time back to a 2014 blog article titled...

November 06, 2019

Does Darwinism necessarily entail atheism?

From my files: Frank Burch Brown, who made a careful study of...

October 2019

October 02, 2019

Sympathy for Atheism

On Tuesday, I published a blog entry entitled "Peterson's Rule," which included a...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

These supposed “parallels” are quite bogus

I published the following column in the Deseret News back on 17 May...

September 16, 2019

Oklahoma! (with a note on atheism and science)

I begin with this curious story: "Mysterious waves have been pulsing across...

September 14, 2019

“Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”

We had one of our comparatively rare meetings of the Interpreter Foundation board...

May 2019

May 02, 2019

High Intelligence and Religious Belief

I hadn't intended to return so soon to my meditations on water, but...

April 2019

April 07, 2019

Why does hostility to theism tend to be more pronounced among some biologists than among physicists?

In an earlier post, "The supposed war between science and religion," I cited Sir John...

April 03, 2019

Christopher Hitchens gets it wrong, yet again.

I'm frequently assured by his disciples that the late Christopher Hitchens was a...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

Christian Anfinsen, Nobel laureate and theist

Christian Anfinsen (1916-1995) earned his doctorate in biochemistry at Harvard University in 1943....

March 15, 2019

New Testament Notes 112-116

Matthew 12:9-14 Mark 3:1-6 Luke 6:6-11 I really should have connected this...

March 06, 2019

The Sudden Rise, Brief Career, and Sudden Fall of Steady State Cosmology

Here's a passage from Hans Küng, The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion (Grand...

March 01, 2019

Materialism just isn’t what it used to be

I was struck by a passage about dark energy and dark matter --...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

Ideas have consequences

On the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Come, Follow Me New Testament...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

“In the beginning were the words”

We're told from time to time that Christianity is dying, and that atheism...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Religion poisons everything?

During the 25 November 2018 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show, Steve Densley...

November 22, 2018

“Round as an orange, my lad!”

We were in an area of the rainforest of northern Queensland today that,...

September 2018

September 22, 2018

“The Benefits of Belief”

Last night, my wife and I enjoyed an elders quorum dinner, with a...

April 2018

April 01, 2018

“The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs!”

It is, I realize, a weird character flaw -- or, probably more accurately...

March 2018

March 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking, RIP

Stephen Hawking, one of the foremost scientists of the past half century --...

March 12, 2018

“Only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.”

The late Sterling M. McMurrin (1914-1996), whom I met on a few occasions,...