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May 2023

May 09, 2023

A note on “selfish genes” and “altruism”

Dr. Mario Beauregard, a Canadian cognitive neuroscientist who is currently affiliated with the University of...

May 06, 2023

Jesus, Osiris, and the Mystery Cults

From time to time, whether on the internet or in pamphlet form or...

March 2023

March 10, 2023

In the Land of the Long White Cloud

A new article, this one a review article, has been published in Interpreter:...

March 09, 2023

“Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis”

More than a few of you, I think, will find this enjoyable: Conference...

March 07, 2023

A sentient puddle comes out in favor of cosmic “fine-tuning”

Recently, I've published four blog posts -- see my "An initial survey of...

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,...

October 2022

October 24, 2022

“Dawkins in Denial”

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

March 2022

March 27, 2022

“Reflections on the God Debate”

*** I'll be on the Interpreter Radio Show later this evening. I'm looking...

March 18, 2022

“The Wind and the Fire to Be My Chariot”

*** "“The Wind and the Fire to Be My Chariot”: The Anachronism...

February 2022

February 22, 2022

Of Atheistic “Brights” and Religious “Dims”

*** First of all, I hope that you're having a happy 22

February 20, 2022

Science, Eyewitness Testimony, and God

*** Marking a milestone in the history of the Interpreter Foundation, we...

February 09, 2022

“Life is meaningless. Isn’t it beautiful?”

*** On the flight yesterday, I watched the three-part Hulu series McCartney...

December 2021

December 28, 2021

“This is better than we thought!”

*** I too found his atheistic reductionism dismal. But he was apparently...

April 2021

April 26, 2021

Varieties of Religious and Irreligious Experience

*** Here's some striking news involving two very vocal atheists. Unusually, I...

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 22, 2020

Ghost Stories, Richard Dawkins, Christmas, and Other Related Matters

I call to your attention two new items that have been posted on...

October 2020

October 13, 2020

“How to be a Good Apologist,” Revisited

Tarik LaCour has responded to me over at his blog, The Mad Dog...

October 11, 2020

“How to be a Good Apologist”

Nearly three years ago now, the astoundingly prolific and productive Irish Latter-day Saint...

October 03, 2020

“Doing science a disservice”

Back on 21 November 2006, the astoundingly productive Anglo-Irish theologian Alister McGrath delivered...

October 02, 2020

Religion and Health, With Data from the Sciences

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

June 2020

June 23, 2020

Four really challenging quotations

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

May 2020

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 01, 2020

Human Teeth and “Design”

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

December 2019

December 15, 2019

“An ill-judged reductionist triumphalism”

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