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September 2026

September 04, 2026

On the Origin of Life on Earth, and Something of Its History

An editor's introduction appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and...

November 2024

November 26, 2024

Gratitude for Air and Dirt

I published the following column in the 14 November issue of the Deseret News:...

February 2024

February 17, 2024

“Water, water everywhere”

Two new articles went up at noon on Friday on the website of the...

November 2023

November 23, 2023

Giving thanks for dirt and for air

Happy Thanksgiving! Both of these columns appeared in the Deseret News in connection...

April 2023

April 17, 2023

A rather strange notion about Earth’s fall

In the most recently posted episode of The Interpreter Radio Show -- originally...

March 2023

March 01, 2023

Three More “Local Planetary Conditions”

I now resume my appropriation, for my own nefarious purposes -- focused, as...

February 2023

February 12, 2023

Mourning and Meekness

Herewith, I post another brief set of preliminary notes for (this time) a...

February 11, 2023

“Local” Planetary Conditions

I carry on now with my appropriation, for my own undoubtedly wicked purposes,...

January 2023

January 25, 2023

Arguing for the Resurrection of Jesus

Conference Talks: "Why Evolution and LDS Thought are Fully Compatible," given in late...

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,...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

An Atmosphere of Gratitude and Grounds for Appreciation

I wrote these two newspaper columns for Thanksgiving 2019: As we in...

October 2020

October 15, 2020

“Improbable Planet”

First, I share a few links that I've been accumulating in my files,...

October 12, 2020

An atmospheric miracle

Below, I share with you three passages from Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power...

September 2020

September 09, 2020

Is religion a failed attempt at scientific explanation?

Here's a passage from Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the...

September 02, 2020

Our galaxy is “highly skewed toward fitness for life”

Here are a couple of passages from Gerald L. Schroeder’s God According to God: A...

May 2020

May 07, 2020

“Ancient astronomers of the Colorado Plateau,” living in “A Fortunate Universe”

The latest installment of my regular bi-weekly column in the Deseret News has...

April 2020

April 15, 2020

Solar Eclipses and Terrestrial Coincidence?

Three beautiful and related passages from Dava Sobel, The Planets (New York: Penguin,...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

“Day breaks over Mercury in a white heat.”

Notes from Dava Sobel, The Planets (New York: Penguin, 2006): "I know...

January 28, 2019

Once more, back to Venus!

I've posted some prior notes (see "The Exoplanet Next Door" and "Revisiting Venus") from M....

August 2018

August 25, 2018

“If the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision”

From my virtual "notebook," a couple of items regarding our home planet: ...

August 04, 2018

“Astro Worms”

Some people, including several notable scientists puzzled by the difficult problem of the...

April 2018

April 02, 2018

Our Favorable Location in the Solar System (Part 2)

An Israeli-American and an Orthodox Jew, Gerald L. Schroeder teaches at Jerusalem’s College of...

April 01, 2018

Our Favorable Location in the Solar System (Part 1)

Gerald L. Schroeder is an Israeli-American and a devout Orthodox Jew who currently...