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July 2018

July 31, 2018
    "I beheld with my eyes. And handled with my hands the gold plates...
July 31, 2018
    I close this little series with the tenth and final installment of an...
July 31, 2018
    I have occasionally used the term scientism here on this blog.   Some...
July 30, 2018
    What follows is the ninth (and penultimate) installment of an article that I...
July 30, 2018
    The most recent iteration of the bi-weekly column that Bill Hamblin and I...
July 30, 2018
    Another passage from Joseph Smith comes to mind as I think about our...
July 29, 2018
    Below is the eighth installment of an article that I wrote for Richard C....
July 29, 2018
    My wife and I have reached that point in our lives where many...
July 29, 2018
    I'm sometimes assured that even religious scientists don't allow religion to infect their...
July 29, 2018
    This is the seventh installment of an article that I wrote for Richard C....
July 28, 2018
    A potentially fascinating discovery:   "What does Mars’ lake mean for the search...
July 28, 2018
    As we waited in line for the ferry from Mill Bay to Brentwood...
July 28, 2018
    This is the sixth installment of an article that I wrote for Richard C....
July 28, 2018
    We're just back from several hours of whale watching out of Tofino, on...
July 27, 2018
    Here’s a fifth installment from an article that I wrote for Richard C. Martin,...
July 27, 2018
    "Doctors and their medicines I regard as a deadly bane to any community....
July 26, 2018
    The latest installment of my now bi-weekly column in the Deseret News has...
July 26, 2018
    Here’s a fourth portion of an article that I wrote for Richard C. Martin,...
July 26, 2018
    James Hannam earned a bachelor’s degree in physics at Oxford University and followed that...
July 25, 2018
    I continue to be struck by a quotation from then-Elder Russell M. Nelson...
July 25, 2018
    Here’s a third selection from an article that I wrote for Richard C. Martin,...
July 25, 2018
    A recurring trope among critics of religious belief is the claim that scientific...
July 25, 2018
    Here’s a second selection from an article that I wrote for Richard C. Martin,...
July 24, 2018
    Some links that have recently caught my attention and that you might find...
July 24, 2018
    I would like to wish everyone out there a happy Pioneer Day.  ...
July 24, 2018
    A staple criticism deployed against religious faith in general by some skeptics is...
July 24, 2018
    From a rough, unfinished manuscript of mine:   Humor is in short supply...
July 23, 2018
    Here's the first part of an article that I wrote for Richard C. Martin,...
July 23, 2018
    Current estimates put the age of the Earth at roughly 4.543 billion years, which...
July 23, 2018
    The worst sin in Islam is shirk (شرك).  The word isn't pronounced like...
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