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June 2025

June 24, 2025

Having fun with two ex-Mormons and the history of astronomy

After considerable discussion that began several months ago and grew more intense within recent...

July 2023

July 27, 2023

Cosmology and Cosmic Design, Again

"2023 FAIR Conference: Ticket sales close on July 28! Save your spot now!" ...

April 2023

April 01, 2023

Easter Week and a Distant Beginning

I've thoroughly enjoyed General Conference thus far. The talks have been uniformly excellent,...

March 2023

March 29, 2023

“Frankenstein Mathematics” and the Unimaginable

I've begun to read Chris Ferrie and Geraint F. Lewis, Where Did the...

December 2022

December 29, 2022

Cosmological 1

A recording of this lecture and its text were posted yesterday on the...

August 2021

August 02, 2021

“Ritual Complexes in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon”

*** Earlier today, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

“Worlds Without Number”

*** A new little essay (by Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw) went up...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

“Cosmic Conundrum”

Okay. If I havn't been clear enough yet, let me make it unmistakably...

October 2020

October 14, 2020

“An event of zero probability”

Another passage from Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet...

September 2020

September 17, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 4)

I share, here, something of a preemptive response from the Evangelical Protestant philosopher...

September 16, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 3)

Continued: According to William Dembski, while both contingency and complexity are required...

September 12, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 2)

Continued: According to William Dembski, design can be detected or inferred by...

September 11, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 1)

Philosophers such as Richard Swinburne [of the University of Oxford] have presented muscular...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

“How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos,” Revisited

The current issue of Scientific American contains a clear and approachable summary article by...

August 24, 2020

“How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos”

The current issue of Scientific American contains a really nice summary article by the...

August 04, 2020

“Remarkably well adjusted in our favor”

First, here's a fun bit of science news: "This is the first picture...

July 2020

July 19, 2020

Why have physicists become increasingly open to the “God question”?

I share here for your Sabbath reflections a passage that I marked during...

June 2020

June 10, 2020

“But it’s still possible, right?”

Here are few more or less unrelated quotations that I've drawn from Geraint...

June 07, 2020

A brief note on the suggestion of multiple universes

One explanation of the apparent fine tuning of the universe is to suggest...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

At the apparent ultimate boundary of science

The universe began approximately 13.8 billion years ago in a literally inconceivable explosion....

April 2020

April 15, 2020

“Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology”

I share, here, several quotations that I've extracted from John H. Walton, Genesis...

March 2020

March 20, 2020

“Coronavirus presents millennials with a generational moment”

I'm shocked and dismayed at the number of people who still don't appear...

February 2020

February 21, 2020

Was I the last to know?

I really hope that this idea will come to fruition: "Utahraptor State...

February 08, 2020

Current American politics explained, and other scientific news

Here's a remarkable little essay by the Dutch computer scientist and philosopher Bernardo...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

“Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology”

I've been very delinquent in posting the link for this article, which went...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Some expressions of scientific humility

Here are some brief quotations from Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head...

November 16, 2019

Science, between fact and theory

Is it true, as some devotees of scientism who like to denigrate religious...

November 13, 2019

“There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures”

This is really quite astonishing. Mind-boggling, in fact: "There’s Growing Evidence That...

April 2019

April 18, 2019

A bit more on two of the four fundamental forces

I posted an item the other day entitled "Some preliminary notes on fine-tuning...

April 17, 2019

“Not long after the Big Bang, chemistry as we know it took its first baby steps”

First, two items about water or water-like liquid in space: "Meteoroid Strikes...