I published this column in the Provo Daily Herald back on 8 June 1999, or thereabouts:   In 150 years of controversy, battle lines have too often been drawn between agnostic evolutionists, on the one hand, and biblical literalists on the other.  The debate is actually far more complex, and much more interesting. Israeli-American physicist Gerald Schroeder trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His 1997 book, The Science of God, not only seeks to harmonize science and… Read more

    Continued from a previous post.   I here offer some further notes from Stephen Cranney, “”Who Is Leaving the Church? Demographic Predictors of Ex-Latter-day Saint Status in the Pew Religious Landscape Survey,” BYU Studies Quarterly 58/1 (2019): 99-108:   Of those in the Pew Religious Landscape Survey — which, please recall, covers the United States of America, not other countries — roughly 18 percent left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for presumably rather conservative evangelical Protestant denominations…. Read more

    It’s increasingly likely that the major-party presidential choice in 2020 will come down to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.  I could not possibly be more thrilled to realize that, after all of the expensive sifting of candidates during this round, these are the two best that our republic can propose out of a population of roughly 330 million people.   My low esteem for Mr. Trump, despite the admirable judicial appointments of his administration and despite other policies… Read more