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July 2023

July 27, 2023

Cosmology and Cosmic Design, Again

"2023 FAIR Conference: Ticket sales close on July 28! Save your spot now!" ...

June 2023

June 04, 2023

Science and Religion: A Great Scottish Example

We drove through Aberdeen today -- we've been in Aberdeenshire pretty much the...

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

“Islamic Guidelines on Covid-19 [Coronavirus]”

I received the item below as an email from the California Islamic University,...

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...

February 2020

February 17, 2020

“The Merry Minuet”

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

November 2019

November 14, 2019

“What’s the Best Way to Sail From World to World?”

"Did you miss seeing Mercury transit the sun? Don’t worry, it’ll happen again...

November 11, 2019

“Twenty Questions about Science and Religion”

New on the website of the Interpreter Foundation, from David H. Bailey (Ph.D....

November 10, 2019

Werner Heisenberg on Religion

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), who earned his doctorate in physics at the University of...

November 09, 2019

Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?

A few notes from Karl W. Giberson, Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian...

October 2019

October 22, 2019

“Evolution and Faith”

And, while I'm at it, I think that I'll share a relevant...

October 17, 2019

“Extent, depth, and stunning grandeur”

First, a potpourri of interesting recent science-related links: "Utah’s Capitol Reef National...

October 08, 2019

Siddhartha, and a world of inflexible cause and effect

I've been re-reading the novella Siddhartha, by the German-born writer Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)....

October 05, 2019

Saints and Scientists

"Why just being in the habitable zone doesn’t make exoplanets livable: Debate over what...

September 2019

September 29, 2019

“Faith and Science are Symbiotic”

I just ran across this interesting 7.5-minute item on the website of the...

September 16, 2019

Oklahoma! (with a note on atheism and science)

I begin with this curious story: "Mysterious waves have been pulsing across...

September 05, 2019

Johannes Kepler and the supposed war between science and religion

I published the article below in the 9 August 2018 issue of the...

September 04, 2019

The original anti-vaxxers and some new thoughts about the atmosphere of Mars

This is a fascinating bit of medical history: "The original anti-vaxxers: How...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

Moabosaurus and Me

I’m reliably informed, by a number of people who don’t know me but...

April 25, 2019

It’s all “comprised within the Gospel”

Here are a few items of temple-related news that you might have missed:...

April 25, 2019

It’s still true

On Wednesday, I posted a blog entry here under the title of “All too...

April 24, 2019

“All too convenient ‘coincidences'”

“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth -- the universe looks...

April 14, 2019

“Beyond our common-sense understanding”

“From 1953 onward, Willy Fowler and I have always been intrigued by the...

March 2019

March 17, 2019

Christian Anfinsen, Nobel laureate and theist

Christian Anfinsen (1916-1995) earned his doctorate in biochemistry at Harvard University in 1943....

March 15, 2019

Six quotations from scientists on religion

Despite its title ("The Neanderthal renaissance"), this slightly longish but quite interesting article...

March 08, 2019

The Gutzon Borglum of the Gaps

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

March 07, 2019

A starry-eyed youth

I grew up fairly near to Pasadena's California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and...

March 05, 2019

Introducing the Pope’s Planetologists

Yale News: "The case of the over-tilting exoplanets" "The first planet Kepler...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

A note on the self-limited nature of science

It should be fairly obvious from my blog that I'm interested in science....