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August 2025

August 19, 2025

Intimations of the divine, from science and from intuition?

I marked a number of passages during my recent reading of Believe: Why Everyone...

February 2025

February 13, 2025

Bidding Adieu to My Native State

Important: The form on the Witnesses Initiative website was inadvertently created in such a...

May 2024

May 20, 2024

Thinking about Evolution

I have a new article up in Meridian Magazine and I hope that you'll...

May 11, 2024

An introduction to Pascal and his wager

The intrepid archaeologists over at FAIR Latter-day Saints recently uncovered a 2001 FAIR conference...

March 2024

March 12, 2024

Some Notes on “Fine-Tuning” and the Multiverse

The following is basically a close paraphrase or a gloss (for my note-taking purposes)...

January 2024

January 20, 2024

Is morality “findable”?

We held our quarterly Interpreter Foundation board meeting today -- technically, it's our annual...

January 17, 2024

Some reasons to be religious?

I want to remind you of Steve Densley's rapidly approaching fireside in the greater...

October 2023

October 06, 2023

“Resident Aliens”

A new article went up at noon today on the website of the...

August 2023

August 19, 2023

Houston, you have a problem.

The following note has now gone out to members of the Friendswood Texas...

March 2023

March 07, 2023

A sentient puddle comes out in favor of cosmic “fine-tuning”

Recently, I've published four blog posts -- see my "An initial survey of...

December 2022

December 19, 2022

“Unintended Corruption” and Other Quirks in Current Physics

Herewith, I share some more notes that have been inspired by and/or are...

February 2022

February 24, 2022

It’s been, astoundingly, nearly thirty years . . .

*** Back in the first half of 1993, I led a small...

February 09, 2022

“Life is meaningless. Isn’t it beautiful?”

*** On the flight yesterday, I watched the three-part Hulu series McCartney...

February 06, 2022

On the psychology of atheism?

*** I originally published this column in Provo’s Daily Herald, back around 14...

January 2022

January 09, 2022

“And each land was called earth”

*** Over in the largely atheist angry ex-Mormon compound that I sometimes...

January 08, 2022

A Nobel laureate’s late return to faith

*** Several times each year, some atheist or other triumphantly flings in...

November 2021

November 07, 2021

Some Thoughts on Science and Faith

*** I feel like sharing some quotations that I've previously gathered from...

November 04, 2021

See it!

*** My wife and I went last night to see a showing...

October 2021

October 23, 2021

“No hands, no feet on earth but yours”

*** Here are a couple of interesting items that were kindly shared...

October 17, 2021

Some More on Spirituality, Religiosity, and Health

*** I continue to go through the articles that Dr. Lynn Johnson...

October 10, 2021

The lovely features of a naturalistic universe

*** A new item has gone up on the website of the...

July 2021

July 22, 2021

“God is a Mathematician”

*** Dr. Kyler Rasmussen continues with his still-new series of Bayesian blog...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Is America on “a one-way trip to secularism”? Is Europe?

*** You may perhaps have missed this article by Steve Densley, which...

May 20, 2021

“Worlds Without Number”

*** A new little essay (by Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw) went up...

March 2021

March 02, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part Two)

Continued from "A Note on Evidence (Part One)": I've tried to explain...

February 2021

February 28, 2021

A Note on Evidence (Part One)

There is a zealous atheist who comments multiple times daily on my blog. ...

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,...

September 2020

September 24, 2020

Atheism as Wonderfully Good News . . .

I confess that I've never understood the exultation and evangelical zeal that some...

September 03, 2020

“It’s not there just somehow by chance.”

It's a limited point -- it proves no point of anybody's religious doctrine...

August 2020

August 11, 2020

The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of Modern Science

Gemli wonders why anyone cares what people from the 17th century thought about...