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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...

April 2026

April 27, 2026

On the trail of ancient Martians

I'm pleased to say that "Becoming Brigham, Episode 14 — The Prophet’s Shadow" is...

October 2025

October 15, 2025

“All is Vanity”

This article that I wrote went up yesterday in Meridian Magazine: "The Keys of...

August 2025

August 18, 2025

A Note on the Miller-Urey Experiment

This is an interesting piece -- and, given that it comes from CNN, it's...

June 2024

June 23, 2024

Some accounts of near-death experiences

This bit of footage, shot back in May at the foot of Torleif Knaphus's...

August 2023

August 19, 2023

Houston, you have a problem.

The following note has now gone out to members of the Friendswood Texas...

July 2023

July 22, 2023

“Life as a Probation”

I'm late in calling attention to it -- for the perfectly valid reason...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

An untrustworthy NDE account?

Several years ago, I posted a quotation from George G. Ritchie, M.D., regarding...

April 10, 2023

Hot Off the Press!

I'm very pleased to have just received in the mail a hard copy...

April 07, 2023

Am I a stone, and not a sheep?

"The Goodness of the Cross and Good Friday: Lessons from Bavaria," written by...

April 02, 2023

On Being “Perfect” (Part One)

[Prefatory clarification: The title of this blog entry notwithstanding, it doesn't actually constitute...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on

As I post this from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, it's...

March 23, 2023

An inadequate note to a niece and two nephews

I just sent the note below to a niece and two nephews, the...

March 21, 2023

“Why seek ye the living among the dead?”

My sister-in-law, my brother's widow, passed away very early this morning after a...

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...

March 01, 2023

Three More “Local Planetary Conditions”

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

January 2023

January 12, 2023

“Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers,” plus the “Drake Equation”

Scott Pierson has kindly called my attention to this article from today's Jerusalem...

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...

April 2022

April 02, 2022

A quite congenial galaxy

*** Among the most interesting living writers on religion and science is...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

An endless smörgåsbord, or a hurried sack lunch?

*** I'm continuing the theme of my blog entry from yesterday, "Our...

February 16, 2022

Our only hope for full flowering

*** I continue to be struck by a quotation from then-Elder Russell...

April 2021

April 07, 2021

A film about pre-mortal life and near-death experiences

*** First, though: My inaugural installment of what is intended to...

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...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Jeremiah 1:5, Premortal Existence, the Status of the EModE Hypothesis, Latter-day Saints, and Sexuality

An article written by Dana M. Pike has now appeared in Interpreter: A...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

Did life reach Earth from beyond the solar system? Has intelligent life made an appearance here yet?

This passage in David Jewitt and Amaya Moro-Martín, "Everything Scientists Know So Far about the First...

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 22, 2020

“But it’s still possible, right?”

Continuing with some passages from Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, A Fortunate Universe:...

September 15, 2020

“For me there is no debate.”

Douglas Axe studied engineering and molecular biology at the University of California at...

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...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

Was a human-life-permitting universe monumentally unlikely?

Here is a lengthy passage that I marked in Douglas Groothuis, Christian Apologetics: A...