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May 2021

May 20, 2021

“Worlds Without Number”

*** A new little essay (by Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw) went up...

March 2021

March 02, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part Two)

Continued from "A Note on Evidence (Part One)": I've tried to explain...

February 2021

February 28, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part One)

There is a zealous atheist who comments multiple times daily on my blog. ...

February 13, 2021

The curious “assumption of intelligibility”

I eagerly await vaccination against COVID-19 -- not only for my own safety...

January 2021

January 31, 2021

“Revelation may come in the laboratory, out of the test tube”

For what it's worth, I'll be on the Interpreter Radio Show tonight (Sunday...

January 15, 2021

“The Most that Evidence Can Do”

Latter-day Saints are often criticized for their conviction that faith is a gift...

January 10, 2021

Religion’s War Against Science? (Plus a Second Chance)

But, first: The 45-minute interview last night with Mark Goodman (the director...

October 2020

October 11, 2020

“You cannot help but think of a Creator.”

Two interesting passages from my reading of Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power of...

October 08, 2020

“Governed in completely precise detail by mathematical principles”

On Tuesday, 6 October, Roger Penrose was awarded one half of the 2020...

September 2020

September 27, 2020

Four Nineteenth-Century Latter-day Saint Comments on Science and Religion

The pressing need of the age is a system of religion that can...

September 03, 2020

“It’s not there just somehow by chance.”

It's a limited point -- it proves no point of anybody's religious doctrine...

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 31, 2020

Nature and “Natural Theology”

Here's a passage from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for...

August 22, 2020

The “economic quark” and the “immanent quark”

Sir John Polkinghorne, now in his ninetieth year, is both a Knight of the...

August 16, 2020

A few ordained scientists

There are many who claim that science and religious belief are entirely incompatible....

August 13, 2020

Does science stand alone as the path to knowledge?

Sir John Polkinghorne, now in his ninetieth year, is both a Knight of the...

August 11, 2020

The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of Modern Science

Gemli wonders why anyone cares what people from the 17th century thought about...

August 10, 2020

“Intellectual inebriation”?

A small sampling of additional passages that I marked during my reading of...

August 09, 2020

A scientist/theologian reflects on science and theology

Among the very most valuable of thinkers on science and religion -- unlike...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

“Atheism . . . turned out to be the most irrational of the choices.”

Sam LeFevre kindly brought the following interview with Francis Collins M.D., Ph.D., to...

June 13, 2020

Some hear mere noise, while others hear a tune

Continuing with some notes from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest...

June 12, 2020

Making sense of “surprising” facts

Some passages from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God...

May 2020

May 16, 2020

Another Illustration of Our War with Science?

Some of you may not have heard the news that the Laie, Hawaii,...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Pagan Natural Theology

Here are some notes based upon Alister McGrath, Darwinism and the Divine: Evolutionary...

April 19, 2020

“The Spacious Firmament on high”

The Sabbath seems -- especially during a period when we're not getting out...

April 07, 2020

“There is no ultimate meaning for humans.”

A couple of quotations extracted from Michael Augros, The Immortal in You: How...

April 01, 2020

Martin Harris and the Coronavirus

Up now on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Teachings and Testimony...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

“Natural Theology” and the Natural Sciences: A Prologue

Over the next few weeks, probably, I'm intending to read gradually through Darwinism and...

January 2020

January 03, 2020

Progress in science and religion

I published the article below in the Deseret News on 15 June 2017:...

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...