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September 2026

September 08, 2026

What if Wallace had prevailed, rather than Darwin?

The folks over at Meridian Magazine took a holiday break on Monday, evidently for...

July 2026

July 01, 2026

Two Books

I'm pleased to report that a full audio recording of John Donovan Wilson's interview...

March 2026

March 07, 2026

Studying the Pearl of Great Price, and Evolution

Newly up on the completely unchanging website of the Interpreter Foundation: Conversations with Interpreter...

February 2026

February 13, 2026

Evolutionary Biology and Divine Creation?

If you can endure nearly two hours and twenty minutes of, well, me, you...

September 2025

September 16, 2025

“Everyone is Lying to You” (Except Me, of Course)

My attention has been called to a Latter-day Saint blog -- located, like mine,...

June 2025

June 15, 2025

Is our reasoning ability overdeveloped? A biological error?

Some readers here may recall that, in fits and starts, I've been working very...

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...

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 20, 2025

Thoughts, even in Poʻipū

A new item has appeared in the Interpreter Foundation's regular Thursday reprint series --...

March 09, 2025

Taking Leave of Darwin?

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

November 2024

November 15, 2024

Going, Going, Go . . . ing

In view of the Interpreter Foundation's ever-declining productivity, its long-prophesied, eagerly anticipated, and rapidly...

July 2024

July 15, 2024

A brief report on Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe

Since the first geological and then archaeological expeditions entered the region known as “Six...

May 2024

May 20, 2024

Thinking about Evolution

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

January 2024

January 24, 2024

Don’t take it all for granted.

I've been reading a small collection of essays by the late Edward O. Wilson...

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...

August 2023

August 24, 2023

A Note on Reason and our Faith in Science

One of the things that I like most about the place that we...

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...

March 2023

March 09, 2023

“Joseph Smith and the Architecture of Genesis”

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

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 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,...

March 2022

March 28, 2022

On “shifting the problem to scientists in some other part of the galaxy or beyond”

*** I was a little bit surprised -- but not at all...

March 17, 2022

Thoughts on Genesis, Science, and Faith

*** Some time ago, I read an interesting book entitled The Lost...

December 2021

December 01, 2021

Fantasia on a Theme from Cellular Biology

*** When I get too sleepy to read while I'm inflight on...

April 2021

April 02, 2021

“Resurrection Month”

*** The new article that went up today in Interpreter: A Journal...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

“Temple Symbolism in the Story of Noah”

Yet another article went online today -- accessible at no charge to all...

February 2021

February 05, 2021

“The Inclusive, Anti-Discrimination Message of the Book of Mormon”

A (massive) new article, this one by David M. Belnap, has just been...

December 2020

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...