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September 26, 2025

Comparing Masonic Rites with the LDS Temple Endowment

This new article appeared earlier today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

October 2023

October 07, 2023

Life is Information

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

March 2023

March 16, 2023

Big News from a Small Country

The sadly necessary Neville-Neville Land blog posted a useful entry the other day...

January 2023

January 16, 2023

“Signature in the Cell”

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

September 2021

September 11, 2021

From Smugglers’ Notch

*** New today, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Book...

April 2021

April 10, 2021

A New Ancient Egyptian City and New Doubts about My Perennial Viking Excuse

*** First, some news from the banks of the River Nile: ...

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...

October 2020

October 19, 2020

“Deeply religious marriages have more spousal equality” and Sweden’s COVID-19 response “shouldn’t be a model for the rest of the world”

It's science. Well, social science, anyway. And it has a connection to Brigham...

October 13, 2020

The benefits of practiced religion and ancient South American immigrants to Polynesia

Dr. Lynn Johnson kindly alerted me to this 2014 article from Frontiers in...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

“Robust” fine-tuning in chemistry and biochemistry?

A passage from Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things (Louisville:...

September 17, 2020

“The Design Inference” (Part 4)

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

August 2020

August 03, 2020

Question: “Is Decrypting the Genetic Legacy of America’s Indigenous Populations Key to the Historicity of the Book of Mormon?”

Up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, by Ugo A. Perego...

July 2020

July 15, 2020

“New Study Finds Some Polynesians Carry DNA of Ancient Native Americans”

In case you missed this news, here's a brief write-up from the Interpreter...

July 08, 2020

“DNA suggests people from the Americas had a role in the peopling of Pacific islands”

"South Americans may have traveled to Polynesia 800 years ago: DNA suggests...

September 2019

September 03, 2019

“Death of the ‘gay gene'” — and of most everything else.

Although most of us who have really thought about this issue concluded long...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

New Genetic Tricks

The 19 January 2019 issue of The Economist (pages 76-77) contains a very interesting...

August 2018

August 21, 2018

Genetic information is not itself material

Professor Hubert P. Yockey (April 15, 1916 – January 31, 2016) was a physicist and an information theorist...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Some Reflections on Probabilities (2)

A bit more from Gerald L. Schroeder, God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We’ve...

February 27, 2018

Some reflections on probabilities (1)

Some people seem to imagine rather vaguely that, given billions of years, just...