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September 2020

September 20, 2020
    I hope that you were able to catch all or most of the...
September 20, 2020
    What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And...
September 20, 2020
    This is important because Islamic law covers a far wider range of actions...
September 19, 2020
    Some short notes from J. Steve Miller, Near-Death Experiences As Evidences for the...
September 19, 2020
    Here are some further passages that I marked while reading Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How...
September 19, 2020
    Of course, there was always the danger that an irresponsible, ignorant, or incompetent...
September 19, 2020
    One of the questions that must inescapably be answered with regard to the...
September 18, 2020
    Over the course of many years, students of the traditions about Muhammad and...
September 18, 2020
    New, today, in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship:  ...
September 17, 2020
    Don't forget the Tracing Ancient Threads in the Book of Moses Conference, which begins on...
September 17, 2020
    I share, here, something of a preemptive response from the Evangelical Protestant philosopher...
September 17, 2020
    Actually, what I have been saying is an oversimplification. It was only gradually...
September 16, 2020
    At 7:00 PM on Friday night, Elder Bruce C. Hafen and Sister Marie...
September 16, 2020
    Continued:   According to William Dembski, while both contingency and complexity are required...
September 16, 2020
    The opposite of sunna, first in pre-Islamic Arabia and ultimately within Islam itself,...
September 15, 2020
    I published this column in the Deseret News on 28 April 2016.  Its...
September 15, 2020
    Douglas Axe studied engineering and molecular biology at the University of California at...
September 15, 2020
    Making Arabic the language of administration in the empire was part of a...
September 15, 2020
    Today is my Dad's birthday -- as I write, it's late (I've had...
September 14, 2020
    Classical Arabic Civilization The late Marshall G. S. Hodgson, one of the greatest...
September 14, 2020
    Now this is interesting:   "Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be...
September 14, 2020
    "Tonight: Dan Peterson at the Lethbridge YSA Stake FHE: The Witnesses" This presentation,...
September 13, 2020
    I return yet again to Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter, Martin Harris:...
September 13, 2020
    In their book Glimpses Beyond Death's Door: Gospel Insights into Near-Death Experiences (Orem:...
September 13, 2020
    I think that I need to explain traditional Arabic names to the readers...
September 12, 2020
    Continued:   According to William Dembski, design can be detected or inferred by...
September 12, 2020
    It seems that I'll be doing a fireside on Monday evening, 14 September...
September 12, 2020
    This focus upon submission to the inscrutable will of God as the characteristic...
September 11, 2020
    Philosophers such as Richard Swinburne [of the University of Oxford] have presented muscular...
September 11, 2020
    A short literary passage that seems to me increasingly apropos to our culture...
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