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July 2023

July 31, 2023

“If it isn’t science, it’s fiction”

I'm sitting on an open-air balcony looking across a golf course up at...

December 2022

December 20, 2022

A non-Christian Christmas

"The New Testament in Context Lesson 1: “We Are Responsible for Our Own...

March 2022

March 02, 2022

A scientist at MIT against scientism

*** I had a good time this evening delivering a private lecture...

October 2021

October 07, 2021

“Vulgar imperialistic scientism”

*** I've been delinquent in sharing a link to an article that...

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 04, 2020

Mary and the Infant Jesus in the Qur’an (My Translation), Plus a Note on Reductionism

My column for this week in the Deseret News: "How the Annunciation...

October 2020

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 01, 2020

English “Science” and German “Wissenschaft”

Back on 8 September 2020, I posted a brief blog entry ("Can the...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

“Physics explains everything”

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

September 15, 2020

“For me there is no debate.”

Douglas Axe studied engineering and molecular biology at the University of California at...

September 08, 2020

Can the study of history yield genuine knowledge?

There are those -- some of them read my blog -- who appear...

August 2020

August 18, 2020

The “shaky foundations of reality”

Scientism, in at least some of its manifestations, is the close cousin or...

August 01, 2020

On Invoking the “Gutzon Borglum” of the Gaps

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

June 2020

June 28, 2020

“Science has taken on the role of mankind’s deliverer.”

“Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Just a temporary assemblage of chemicals?

The target of Curtis White, The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in...

May 29, 2020

On the late Christopher Hitchens

Curtis White, who identifies himself as an atheist, had some very interesting things...

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...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

“There is no ultimate meaning for humans.”

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

January 2020

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],...

December 2019

December 15, 2019

“An ill-judged reductionist triumphalism”

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

December 12, 2019

Is genuine knowledge possible outside of science?

There are those -- some of them read my blog -- who appear...

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 27, 2019

Confusing scientism with science?

I continue here with another passage that I've extracted, for my notes, from Ian...

November 25, 2019

“There does seem to be something special about science”

I share a passage from Ian Hutchinson, Monopolizing Knowledge: A Scientist Refutes Religion-Denying, Reason-Destroying...

November 19, 2019

Unfalsifiability and Evolution

Here are some provocative thoughts from Ian Hutchinson, who is a professor of Nuclear Science...

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...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

Why I called him “it”

A while ago, in two or three responses to comments on my blog,...

November 2018

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 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...