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September 2026

September 23, 2026

Toward a “Post-Materialist Science”?

  Have you watched "'Why Not Sidney Rigdon' -- Episode 35" yet?  Hmmm?  Inquiring minds...

August 2026

August 01, 2026

Some thoughts on mind and brain

  Here's a nice Deseret News article about the late Carol Lynn Pearson, who passed...

July 2026

July 08, 2026

Remote Viewing 1

  I begin with some famous and very apt words from the English poet and...

February 2026

February 05, 2026

What is consciousness?

  I would like to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, to watch...

February 06, 2025

It just never ends.

  Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Joseph Smith and Our Preparation...

February 01, 2025

6DIA is streaming, physicalism is depressing, and I’m right

  I've been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to announce that the 2024 Interpreter Foundation theatrical...

July 2023

July 08, 2023

Speaking of “jaded Western tourists” . . .

    We spent the morning and into the afternoon cruising about from Ucluelet, looking...

March 2022

March 20, 2022

“Big Tech is coming for conservative Christians”

    ***   I've just agreed to participate on the Interpreter Radio Show a...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

“If God Does Not Exist, Is Everything Permitted?”

    ***   A new essay appeared at noon today, Utah time, in Interpreter:...

December 31, 2021

Starting Over Again, New Year or Not

    ***   Here's a New Year's article that I wrote for Meridian Magazine:...

March 2021

March 09, 2021

“Materialists and madmen never have doubts.”

    ***   But, first:   Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter...

December 2020

December 27, 2020

Does the Existence of the Universe Point to a Creator?

    Why is there anything at all?   Either the universe -- by which,...

December 12, 2020

Some things that need to be accounted for

    First, though, here's something new that was posted today on the website of...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

“Physics explains everything”

    Here are four quotations about science, representing quite distinct points of view, that...

September 15, 2020

“For me there is no debate.”

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

August 2020

August 01, 2020

On Invoking the “Gutzon Borglum” of the Gaps

    Humans always want to know “why.”  Especially children.  It seems that it's an...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

“Science has taken on the role of mankind’s deliverer.”

    “Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded...

June 23, 2020

Four really challenging quotations

    First, I share two quotations from two very vocal atheists.  The first comes...

April 2020

April 06, 2020

“Two kinds of thinkers”

    Newly published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:   In God’s Image...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

‘The difficulty is to me a fatal one”

    In 1944, C. S. Lewis delivered an address to the Oxford Socratic Club.  Here are...

March 2019

March 01, 2019

Materialism just isn’t what it used to be

    I was struck by a passage about dark energy and dark matter --...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

“Intentionality contra Physicalism: On the Mind’s Independence from the Body” (1)

    For years, I strongly disliked air travel.  Now, though, I rather like it....

January 2019

January 17, 2019

A world with neither freedom nor morality?

    “Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

Mind, fundamental to the universe?

    From the British astrophysicist and theologian David Wilkinson, God, Time and Stephen Hawking: An...

February 07, 2018

A scientist’s dissent

    Having completed undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley and earned...

February 02, 2018

The Problem of Consciousness

    Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is a God: Doubting Dawkins (Oxford: Lion,...

February 01, 2018

Materialism as a “Non-Starter”

    Keith Ward, Why There Almost Certainly Is a God: Doubting Dawkins (Oxford: Lion,...

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