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April 2020

April 05, 2020

Shared Delusion?

I offer another note taken from Andrew Sims, Is Faith Delusion? Why Religion...

April 04, 2020

Science and Health, with No Reference to Mary Baker Eddy

Some while ago, I read Andrew Sims, Is Faith Delusion? Why Religion is...

April 03, 2020

The sunset of Arab nationalism

I share some further notes from Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political...

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...

March 13, 2020

“We haven’t let anyone take us in.”

Occasionally, when I'm reading online comments from some of the more embittered, alienated,...

March 13, 2020

More on Medical Science, Faith, and Prayer

Responding to my blog entry of Thursday entitled "Medicine Versus the Priesthood?" a...

March 12, 2020

Medicine Versus the Priesthood?

Particularly in the wake of announcements about -- to choose some prominent examples...

March 10, 2020

In which I denounce science as a sham!

Just a few minutes ago, I read the confident claim, made online by...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

“Latter-day Saint Charities Blessed Millions of Lives in 2019”

“A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing...

February 25, 2020

Evolution and the Church, plus “You’re Going to Get the Coronavirus”

Science & Mormonism Series 1: Cosmos, Earth, and Man LDS Statements on Evolution and...

February 20, 2020

The religious transformation of Latin America

The numbers need updating, of course, as do some other elements of the...

February 17, 2020

“The Merry Minuet”

New, on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Science & Mormonism Series...

February 13, 2020

“How can any intelligent person possibly believe in that?

I published the little item below in the Provo Daily Herald way back...

February 12, 2020

Yup! Religion Poisons EVERYTHING!

Quite a number of years ago, my late friend Bill Hamblin and I...

February 11, 2020

Chelsea Handler on “Mormonism”

We're just back from a performance of the Jeff Hamilton Trio in the Concert...

February 03, 2020

Inheriting Wind

But, first, a new item on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: ...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Dr. Collins and (the late) Dr. Salisbury

I originally published this column in the Provo Daily Herald back on 2...

January 27, 2020

“‘Hard’ Evidence of Ancient American Horses” (Part 6), Plus a Note on Evolution and Faith

Newly published on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Science & Mormonism...

January 27, 2020

My career as a water witcher, armed with a divining rod

Three or four times, perhaps, I've publicly mentioned my one and only direct...

January 14, 2020

An empty victory for science?

New today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation -- and, as always,...

January 10, 2020

Should we pray toward Paris?

(Ian Hutchinson, Monopolizing Knowledge: A Scientist Refutes Religion-Denying, Reason-Destroying Scientism [Belmont, MA: Fias Publishing, 2011],...

January 03, 2020

Progress in science and religion

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

December 2019

December 31, 2019

“The Outer Solar System: A Window to the Creative Breadth of Divinity”

I call your attention to something that has just been posted on the...

December 28, 2019

“Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology”

I've been very delinquent in posting the link for this article, which went...

December 15, 2019

“An ill-judged reductionist triumphalism”

In an earlier post, "The supposed war between science and religion," I cited Sir John...

December 11, 2019

On “the Pope’s divisions”

Bill Hamblin and I wrote a regular column on world religions for the...

December 09, 2019

“The Restored Gospel and the Birth of the Modern Age”

"Science & Mormonism Series 1: Cosmos, Earth, and Man: Frequently Asked Questions about Science...

December 08, 2019

Science as “a profound source of spirituality”?

Here are two of my favorite comments from the late American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and...

December 05, 2019

Is science the only arbiter of truth?

Now this is joyous news! Ho ho ho! "Two of the biggest...

November 2019

November 28, 2019

“Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God”

I would like to call your attention to a few things from the...