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May 2023

May 17, 2023

Seeing is believing, right?

“One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek after;...

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...

April 01, 2023

Easter Week and a Distant Beginning

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

January 2023

January 02, 2023

Incomprehensibly Old, but Not Infinitely So

Gotcha. Its title notwithstanding, this is not an autobiographical essay. In the...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

Physics in Wonderland

I now return briefly to writing up some notes that are inspired by...

January 2022

January 15, 2022

Brigham Young, critic of racism

*** In his important book Religion of a Different Color, Paul Reeve...

January 24, 2021

“Cosmic Conundrum”

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

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 25, 2020

“Reckoning with the Mortally Inevitable”

Newly posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, the introduction (by...

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 21, 2020

Divine Wisdom at the Foundation of the Universe?

One of the most interesting contemporary writers on religion and science is the...

August 04, 2020

“Remarkably well adjusted in our favor”

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

June 2020

June 25, 2020

Einstein’s “greatest blunder”

Some passages that I marked in Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The...

June 02, 2020

Non-scientific matters that we know with certainty

I listened to a talk last night by the evangelical philosopher J. P....

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....

May 21, 2020

“The world is not as real as we think.”

I offer here a potpourri of quotations from the very early pages of...

May 20, 2020

Einstein’s big mistake

On pages 89-90, Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey...

May 15, 2020

Dante, Einstein, and the curvature of spacetime

In a remarkable section (pages 77-88) of Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

Imagination as a Key Element in Science and Mathematics

A nice little interlude from Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems:...

April 16, 2020

“The most beautiful of theories,” vindicated yet again

Notes from Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to...

April 02, 2020

“Backward in time”

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

March 2020

March 30, 2020

“Spooky action” that can’t exist but does

Here are a couple of additional passages that I've marked in Bruce Rosenblum...

March 28, 2020

Amazing scientific progress and surprising scientific ignorance

One online critic of the Church likes to use me in order to...

January 2020

January 25, 2020

In quest of the “real” but sadly invisible Planet Vulcan

Yesterday, in a post entitled “Day breaks over Mercury in a white heat,”...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

“What’s the Best Way to Sail From World to World?”

"Did you miss seeing Mercury transit the sun? Don’t worry, it’ll happen again...

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...

March 2019

March 15, 2019

On “Spooky action at a distance”

Wikipedia defines "quantum entanglement" as "a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or...

March 15, 2019

Six quotations from scientists on religion

Despite its title ("The Neanderthal renaissance"), this slightly longish but quite interesting article...

March 09, 2018

Above our heads, beneath our feet, and beneath our dignity

There's even a bit of pretty good scientist humor here: "Hawaii: Where...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

“Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht”

Curiously, as someone who hates and fears science and who neither knows nor...