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June 2025

June 09, 2025

Some notes on the origin of life and the Shroud of Turin

A little article of mine went up this morning in Meridian Magazine: "When “Great” Men...

May 2025

May 19, 2025

In the Staffordshire Potteries for the Industrial Revolution

Today, we entered the area known as the Staffordshire Potteries, which is particularly associated...

March 2025

March 21, 2025

“Anchoring Nephi’s Account in the Real World”

As happens several times each week, something new has appeared on the website of...

March 09, 2025

Taking Leave of Darwin?

The flight today from Salt Lake City to St. Louis took something on the...

May 2024

May 20, 2024

Thinking about Evolution

I have a new article up in Meridian Magazine and I hope that you'll...

October 2023

October 07, 2023

Life is Information

The funeral services for a dear friend, Bianca Palmieri Lisonbee, were held this...

September 2023

September 02, 2023

A veritable implicit philosophy of history

For reasons known only to me, although a couple of other folks might...

February 2023

February 19, 2023

Thinking about “Evolution”

It seems to me that the term evolution has at least three quite...

January 2023

January 16, 2023

“Signature in the Cell”

When I was a young'un -- long, long ago, in a galaxy far...

January 07, 2023

It Came from Outer Space, Maybe, or Perhaps from the Black Lagoon

I think that I'll post another set of draft notes inspired by (and,...

August 2022

August 13, 2022

Ranking books to rankle believers?

May 2022

May 05, 2022

“About Those ‘Dangerous’ Mormons”

*** Under the Banner of Heaven continues to enjoy its fifteen minutes...

January 2021

January 03, 2021

An instructive disagreement at Oxford about the function of genes

The first of Alister McGrath's three earned Oxford University doctorates was in molecular...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

The Origin of Life on Earth: An Insoluble Problem?

Among the millions of distinct species on our planet, even the simplest forms...

December 05, 2020

Berlinski imagines Borges imagining literary “evolution”

From the staff of Book of Mormon Central and the Interpreter Foundation's Jeffrey...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

Introductory thoughts for a natural theology, and dreams for a conference

This morning, I was re-reading Joseph Smith's 1832 account of his First Vision...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

Revision 5.14 “What the West Owes the East” (Medicine and Other Sciences)

In medicine, the Western debt to the Arabs is every bit as great...

September 19, 2020

Can you get there from here?

Here are some further passages that I marked while reading Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How...

August 2020

August 28, 2020

On Latter-day Saint Rejection of Evolution

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

August 27, 2020

No doubt: “There is grandeur in this view of life”

Arguments have raged for well over a century and a half about the...

August 11, 2020

If you’re looking for easy, black and white answers, you need my Miracle Elixir™

All truth, it is said, passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed....

April 2020

April 02, 2020

“Backward in time”

Still working my way into Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Quantum Enigma: Physics...

April 01, 2020

Human Teeth and “Design”

Yes, I'm enough of a troglodyte to have read Jonathan Wells, The Politically...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

“Natural Theology” and the Natural Sciences: A Prologue

Over the next few weeks, probably, I'm intending to read gradually through Darwinism and...

November 2019

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...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

Some notes on evolution, values, and possible “design”

"Natural selection . . . has lifted life from primeval simplicity to the...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

Unforeseen Complexities in Darwin’s Tree of Life

Life cannot have had a random beginning. . . . The trouble is...