https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-03/no-you-don-t-have-to-vote-for-clinton-or-trump     Read more

    Just wanting to remind you of a very promising conference to be held on the BYU campus in Provo this Saturday.     Read more

    “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” James Madison     Read more

    Very interesting.  Watch the short video from ABC’s Nightline, too:   http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/11/02/senator-jeff-flake-indicates-may-vote-evan-mcmullin/     Read more

    Thanks to my friend, colleague, former department chair, and former dean Van Gessel for calling my attention to this important argument from Nicholas Kristof, of the New York Times.     Read more

    The latest iteration of my Deseret News “Defending the Faith” column has now been published:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865666273/Joseph-Smiths-name-had-for-good-and-evil-among-all-nations.html   In my judgment, a prophecy fulfilled.     Read more

    Thanks to Jeff Lindsay for calling my attention to this item from back in August (well before Mr. Trump was revealed as a proud groper of innocent women):   https://collisionofchurchandstate.com/2016/08/18/ten-reasons-why-you-should-support-evan-mcmullin/     Read more

    From one of my very favorite writers on science and religion:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441629/faith-reason-religious-scientists   I wish there were a comparable organization of Latter-day Saint scientists.     Read more

    Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about. . . .  I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell.  The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules.  How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me.  The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.... Read more

    Salon.com notices the anti-Mormonism that’s begun to be emitted from some regions of Trumpdom:   http://www.salon.com/2016/11/01/behind-the-mormon-mafia-feud-evan-mcmullins-anti-trump-candidacy-splits-republicans-along-religious-lines/   I’m shocked — shocked! — to find that there’s bigotry associated with the Trump campaign!     Read more