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“Artifact or Artifice?” Orson Scott Card’s Brilliant 1993 Essay Still Rings True

Twenty-five years ago a famous name among fiction writers, Orson Scott Card, gave a speech at BYU that provided a novel way of evaluating Book of Mormon claims. The speech…

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Joseph Smith’s Universe and Some Ruminations on Chinese Sci-Fi

One of my favorite projects recently was preparing an unusual article for The Interpreter that looks at Joseph Smith’s cosmology in light of some truly eye-opening views on the cosmos…

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Artificial Intelligence and the Nature of Intelligence in LDS Theology

In Amsterdam, where I have been for the past few days, I just attended a thought-provoking presentation by speakers from Intel and ABB. Claudia Jamin, Group Vice President of IP…

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