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May 2020

May 24, 2020

Scientism versus Scientism’s Caricature of Christian Theism

A note from the British Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton's 2008 Terry Lectures...

May 16, 2020

Another Illustration of Our War with Science?

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

May 15, 2020

Dante, Einstein, and the curvature of spacetime

In a remarkable section (pages 77-88) of Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What...

May 09, 2020

Some notes on olive cultivation and the Book of Mormon

This entry draws upon John W. Welch, et al., eds. Knowing Why: 137...

May 08, 2020

When it’s available, you should go back to church

I continue with my notes from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go...

May 02, 2020

“There is this God, and this God actually helps to make sense of things.”

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

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Pagan Natural Theology

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

April 29, 2020

For your “Christopher Hitchens Memorial ‘How Religion Poisons Everything’ File”

I offer just a bit more from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to...

April 28, 2020

Better Health and Longer Life with Religion?

I share a bit more from Paul McFate, 52 Good Reasons to Go...

April 27, 2020

“Abductive Reasoning”

I published a blog entry a few days ago entitled "Imagination as a...

April 23, 2020

Good Reasons to Attend Church

Searching through a pile of papers, I came across a little book today...

April 23, 2020

Correcting a basic mistake in neuroscience, or just committing one?

I share some notes that I jotted down from Douglas Fox, "The Brain,...

April 22, 2020

Strikingly, “science is a value-laden activity”

Despite our very considerable differences (which is putting them mildly), I was saddened...

April 19, 2020

The same sociality, but with much better music

Some notes taken from Brent L. Top, What’s On the Other Side: What the...

April 19, 2020

“The Spacious Firmament on high”

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

April 18, 2020

“Ultimate Questions”

Stephen T. Davis is currently Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at...

April 07, 2020

“There is no ultimate meaning for humans.”

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

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 02, 2020

“Backward in time”

Still working my way into Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Quantum Enigma: Physics...

April 01, 2020

Martin Harris and the Coronavirus

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

March 2020

March 30, 2020

“Spooky action” that can’t exist but does

Here are a couple of additional passages that I've marked in Bruce Rosenblum...

March 28, 2020

Amazing scientific progress and surprising scientific ignorance

One online critic of the Church likes to use me in order to...

March 26, 2020

Quantum mechanics and commonsense intuitions

I'm back to reading Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters...

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...

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

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 17, 2020

“The Merry Minuet”

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