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July 2025

July 03, 2025

A blast from this blog’s past

Some of you may have been wondering, even worrying, about what happened to our...

December 2022

December 17, 2022

“The beginning of the end of death’s dominion”

I spoke today at the U.S. Hazara Conference 2022, which was held in...

October 2022

October 24, 2022

“Dawkins in Denial”

We flew this evening from Fort Lauderdale to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to...

April 2022

April 04, 2022

The Actual Voice of One Who Was There

*** As we begin to pivot from our overall "Witnesses" film project...

January 2022

January 09, 2022

“And each land was called earth”

*** Over in the largely atheist angry ex-Mormon compound that I sometimes...

January 08, 2022

A Nobel laureate’s late return to faith

*** Several times each year, some atheist or other triumphantly flings in...

November 2021

November 07, 2021

Some Thoughts on Science and Faith

*** I feel like sharing some quotations that I've previously gathered from...

November 04, 2021

See it!

*** My wife and I went last night to see a showing...

October 2021

October 07, 2021

“Vulgar imperialistic scientism”

*** I've been delinquent in sharing a link to an article that...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Is America on “a one-way trip to secularism”? Is Europe?

*** You may perhaps have missed this article by Steve Densley, which...

April 2021

April 17, 2021

“The Man Who Knew Infinity” (Part Two)

*** First of all, I've just become aware that Edward Idris Cardinal...

April 14, 2021

“The Man Who Knew Infinity” (Part One)

*** I first read about Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) back when I was...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

Notes Regarding China’s War Against Its Religious Citizens

*** Here's a new posting on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

“God and mr. hitchens,” again

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

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...

September 2019

September 26, 2019

These supposed “parallels” are quite bogus

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

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 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 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...