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January 2021

January 19, 2021

Get your shot when you can!

If you're an anti-vaxxer in general or someone who just refuses to receive...

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...

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 21, 2020

“A Prophet Like Moses,” and “The Journey of the Magi”

Two items were published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today. ...

December 17, 2020

“The Most American Religion”?

But, first, the latest installment of my biweekly column for the Deseret News:...

October 2020

October 19, 2020

“Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Opinion”

A new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith...

October 18, 2020

“A more beautiful message cannot be conceived. “

From Thomas Dubay, The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet (San Francisco:...

October 13, 2020

The benefits of practiced religion and ancient South American immigrants to Polynesia

Dr. Lynn Johnson kindly alerted me to this 2014 article from Frontiers in...

October 04, 2020

“Even if we cannot prove them with absolute certainty”

Yet another passage from Alister McGrath's "Twilight of Atheism" talk as it appears,...

October 02, 2020

Religion and Health, With Data from the Sciences

I've often had occasion here and elsewhere to mention the prolific Alister...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

“Physics explains everything”

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

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 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 09, 2020

Is religion a failed attempt at scientific explanation?

Here's a passage from Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the...

September 06, 2020

Religion, Science, and Awe

I'm not, to put it mildly, an uncritical fan of the late Carl...

September 06, 2020

A friend’s statement of faith

My friend Martin Tanner and I substituted tonight on the Interpreter Radio Show...

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

Attacking Other Faiths

The 2020-2021 BYU academic year has begun. My own classes will begin tomorrow...

August 30, 2020

Revision 4.12 “The Treatment of Women”

In terms of their prospects for going to either heaven or hell, there...

August 28, 2020

On Latter-day Saint Rejection of Evolution

My attention was called some time back to a 2014 blog article titled...

August 27, 2020

No doubt: “There is grandeur in this view of life”

Arguments have raged for well over a century and a half about the...

August 24, 2020

Revision 4.6 “The Religion of Abraham”

Yet the Qur'an does not bring any new truths. It does not claim...

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...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

“A superbly structured universe where mind is an integral component”

The British paleontologist Simon Conway Morris (1951-) established his international reputation on the basis of...

July 24, 2020

“Galileo: Science vs. religion or truth vs. fiction?”

The latest installment of my regular Deseret News column was actually published yesterday...