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February 2018

February 28, 2018
    With four friends, my wife and I had an excellent breakfast this morning...
February 28, 2018
    More dreary prose from my manuscript:   The Arabs were also adept at...
February 28, 2018
    First, Gerald Schroeder quotes something from Scientific American:   Evidence: COSMOLOGISTS INFER the...
February 28, 2018
    A bit more from Gerald L. Schroeder, God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We’ve...
February 28, 2018
    Part -- only part -- of an argument (regarding the Book of Mormon)...
February 27, 2018
    Some people seem to imagine rather vaguely that, given billions of years, just...
February 27, 2018
    I like etymologies, so, naturally, my manuscript contains a few of them:  ...
February 26, 2018
    My manuscript-in-progress now takes up some miscellaneous other sciences or disciplines:   “In...
February 26, 2018
      Reading this article in the National Catholic Register by one Anna Abbott,...
February 26, 2018
    Some more lines from the manuscript, this time focusing on medicine:   In...
February 25, 2018
    One of the most interesting contemporary writers on religion and science is the...
February 25, 2018
    We attended services this morning at the Laie Fourth Ward, directly adjacent to...
February 24, 2018
    Another passage from the manuscript:   Gradually, as the West noticed the riches...
February 24, 2018
    You may perhaps have noticed -- at least one reader of this blog...
February 24, 2018
    Continuing with my manuscript, now focusing on mathematics:   Arab Muslims had very...
February 23, 2018
    The indispensable Robert Boylan of Ireland offers a couple of items regarding the...
February 23, 2018
    A few days ago, I posted an item that, among other things, poked...
February 23, 2018
    Continuing to think about Joseph Smith and the origins of the Book of...
February 23, 2018
    My manuscript continues forward on its leisurely pace:   And it was a...
February 22, 2018
    Notes, some of them quite old and in need of updating, toward a...
February 22, 2018
    From Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Astronomy...
February 22, 2018
    Continuing the manuscript:   In the ninth century, translation from Greek into Arabic...
February 21, 2018
    Some extracts from Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor and Deputy Head of the Department...
February 21, 2018
    Still moving forward with my Islam-for-Mormons manuscript:   In the meantime, an immensely...
February 21, 2018
    From the British astrophysicist and theologian David Wilkinson, God, Time and Stephen Hawking: An...
February 21, 2018
    Sharon Eubank, whom I know and very much respect, has sounded an important...
February 20, 2018
    Moving forward in classical Islamic history:   By the time that the ninth...
February 20, 2018
    Rough notes from a book in progress:   Orson Pratt, who knew Joseph...
February 20, 2018
    Every once in a while, I read a complaint by some critic of...
February 19, 2018
    There are two broad ways of viewing the Book of Mormon:  One holds...
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