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October 2025

October 23, 2025

“Unmasking Halloween: Its Origins and Meaning”

I published a seasonally appropriate article today in Meridian Magazine that some readers might...

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...

March 2025

March 16, 2025

“Reexploring the Book of Mormon”

As a small constituent part of a long-term project that I'm working on, I'll...

May 2024

May 20, 2024

Thinking about Evolution

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

February 2024

February 17, 2024

“Water, water everywhere”

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

May 2021

May 04, 2021

Change and Decay in the Mid-Pacific

*** Happily, we were able to attend the funeral of our friend...

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 06, 2020

Was the Book of Mormon the product of Joseph Smith’s own thinking?

A new article -- this one by the notoriously vicious and always angry...

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...

October 30, 2020

An 1865 Vision of a Gathering Place for the Saints in Hawai’i

Drawing on R. Lanier Britsch, Moramona: The Mormons in Hawai'i, 2d ed., updated,...

October 01, 2020

Some background on Hallowe’en

We've just entered the month of October -- the month of Halloween, during...

September 2020

September 19, 2020

Can you get there from here?

Here are some further passages that I marked while reading Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How...

September 15, 2020

“Taking a ‘Leap of Faith’ in [the late Senator Bob] Bennett’s book on the origins of the Book of Mormon”

I published this column in the Deseret News on 28 April 2016. Its...

September 04, 2020

“Visions in a Seer Stone”?

Two new book reviews have just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Was Sidney Rigdon in on the creation of the Book of Mormon?

John Wickliffe Rigdon, a son of Sidney Rigdon, left a memoir of his...

August 21, 2020

Divine Wisdom at the Foundation of the Universe?

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

June 2020

June 08, 2020

“A Planet is Born”

I enjoyed an article in the current issue of Scientific American about "circumstellar...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

What’s at stake?

For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life,...

April 2020

April 26, 2020

“We are stardust. We are golden. We are billion-year-old carbon.”

Contemplating the photographs at the two links below seems to me an appropriate...

April 06, 2020

Just a simple fraud?

Another passage from one of my rough-cut manuscripts: We’ll first look at...

August 2018

August 04, 2018

“Astro Worms”

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