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May 2017

May 18, 2017
    I wrote this on our last full day in Egypt – Wednesday --...
May 18, 2017
    "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch...
May 16, 2017
    My friend and colleague Ralph Hancock agitated the hive again, a few days...
May 16, 2017
    An interesting perspective:     Personally, I think that conservatives should and...
May 16, 2017
    We sailed early this morning from Aswan, stopping first at Kom Ombo, where...
May 16, 2017
    After our visits to the temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu today, I...
May 16, 2017
    "It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek 'miracle'...
May 16, 2017
    From time to time, it's claimed that nineteenth-century Mormon leaders advocated, or even...
May 16, 2017
    "Anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first...
May 16, 2017
    I'm more than a week late in posting this.  But then, I've been...
May 16, 2017
    Book of Mormon Central has just posted a new 45-minute video (from a...
May 15, 2017
    Some of you certainly won't approve of some of his imagery and illustrations,...
May 15, 2017
    Today, 15 May, marks the anniversary of the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood....
May 15, 2017
    We flew this morning from Cairo to Aswan, in the south of Egypt....
May 15, 2017
    The late anthropologist Loren Eiseley, in his book The Firmament of Time:   "A...
May 15, 2017
    So much of science consists of things we can never see: light “waves”...
May 14, 2017
    This is becoming a really good relationship:     Posted from Cairo,...
May 14, 2017
    This would have been fascinating:     Brother Guy Consolmagno S.J. is...
May 14, 2017
      We drove down this morning to Saqqara, the marvelous necropolis of the...
May 14, 2017
    What are some of the problems on which Mormon thinkers might focus their...
May 14, 2017
    Some point to the proposal of a heliocentric model of our solar system...
May 14, 2017
    A simple but nice little testimony out of Jamaica:     Posted from...
May 14, 2017
    "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.  You can...
May 13, 2017
    This is a group that my wife and I have tried to support:...
May 13, 2017
    The latest installment in the continuing Hamblin-Peterson column for the Deseret News:  ...
May 13, 2017
    Very curious:     Posted from Cairo, Egypt    
May 13, 2017
This is a pretty big deal.
May 13, 2017
    The handwriting appears to be on the wall.  Behold the next avenue of...
May 13, 2017
    We spent much of the morning in the vicinity of the pyramids of...
May 13, 2017
    "For any one who sees Egypt, without having heard a word about it...
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