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October 2019

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 04, 2019

Is beauty truth? Is truth beauty?

A short article by Matthew Hutson in the October 2019 issue of Scientific...

October 03, 2019

“If we study astronomy, we study the works of God.”

I thought that this was a stimulating read: "Bad Psychology: Why Climate...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

A bit of science and two bits on scientism

First, some general science news, which ranges from the sublime: "Why Your...

September 26, 2019

Order in Nature and Another of the Social Benefits of Religion

Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in...

September 14, 2019

“Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”

We had one of our comparatively rare meetings of the Interpreter Foundation board...

May 2019

May 02, 2019

High Intelligence and Religious Belief

I hadn't intended to return so soon to my meditations on water, but...

April 2019

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 07, 2019

Why does hostility to theism tend to be more pronounced among some biologists than among physicists?

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

March 2019

March 31, 2019

“The Disenchantment of the World”

"The fate of our times," wrote the great pioneer German sociologist Max Weber,...

March 06, 2019

The Sudden Rise, Brief Career, and Sudden Fall of Steady State Cosmology

Here's a passage from Hans Küng, The Beginning of All Things: Science and Religion (Grand...

March 04, 2019

Recommendation: “The Biology of the Second Reich: Social Darwinism and the Origins of World War 1”

I highly recommend a look at this fourteen-minute film, available for free on...

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....

February 15, 2019

“Berührungsdenkfehler”

On one of the planes today, I began reading Rolf Dobelli, Die Kunst...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

“Memory and Erasure in the Story of the West: Where Have All the Muslims Gone?”

This poem, by Eliza R. Snow (1804-1887), appeared in the official Latter-day Saint...

January 20, 2019

“The Dance of the Solids”

John Updike wrote this poem (entitled "The Dance of the Solids") after he...

January 19, 2019

“We can only ask questions that we have imagination for.”

Here's a brief but interesting article on a little-known field in the biological...

November 2018

November 23, 2018

In and above the real Pandora

We spent much of Thursday in the northern Queensland rainforest just inland from...

November 22, 2018

“Round as an orange, my lad!”

We were in an area of the rainforest of northern Queensland today that,...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

“Calm seriousness, profound acceptance, . . . mental quickening and sense of surety”

I'm adding these two passages to my notebook, from Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life:...

August 28, 2018

“The phenomenon remains unexplained”

"NDE," writes the Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel, "pushes at the limits of...

August 24, 2018

Scientism’s Overreach

There are still a few archaeological surprises out there remaining to be found:...

August 20, 2018

A few more thoughts on “scientism”

Unorganized notes from another as yet incomplete manuscript: C. S. Lewis: “Let...

August 14, 2018

In which I reveal myself to be a young-Earth creationist

As a person who, I'm reliably informed, believes in young-Earth creationism and who...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

The Wisdom of the Nobel Prize

I think that we can all confidently say now that there will be...

April 15, 2018

Four Nineteenth-Century Mormon Quotations on Science and Religion

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

April 14, 2018

Peter Grünberg RIP

In 2007, the German physicist Peter Grünberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

The Culture of Science

There's much in the thought of the British Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton that...

March 20, 2018

“Ditchkins,” Science, and Religion

We know vastly more about extraterrestrial planets today than we did when I...

March 14, 2018

Stephen Hawking, RIP

Stephen Hawking, one of the foremost scientists of the past half century --...