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John F. Pohl

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Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah DThM, Northwind Theological Seminary Professionally, I’m an academic pediatric gastroenterologist. I’m very interested in research evaluating the intersection of science and religion. https://johnfpohlmd.blog

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Beautiful view from Big Cottonwood Canyon today. #Utah

16.02.2026 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pantheism or Panentheism? Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My newest post, “Pantheism or Panentheism” is now on Substack. #God #Theology
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15.02.2026 23:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He basically get a lifetime achievement reward due to his damaging effects

09.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Prick Against the Lure Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My newest post, “The Prick Against the Lure” is now on Substack. #God #theology open.substack.com/pub/johnpohl...

08.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Theology Journal Club Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My new post, “Theology Journal Club” is now on Substack. #God #theology #science substack.com/@johnpohl602...

02.02.2026 01:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Home - International Society for Science & Religion (ISSR) Statement from the President "Welcome to the website of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR). The relationship between the sciences and the religions continues to attract a wide p...

I was extremely honored to learn this week that I have been elected as Fellow of ISSR ocated at St. Edmund's College at the University of Cambridge. The Fellowship has members worldwide involved in education and research in the fields of science and religion in a pluralistic world.

www.issr.org.uk

31.01.2026 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Research Culture Harming Medical Education This Viewpoint discusses how mass-production strategies that prioritize quantity over quality in research publication are undermining the principle of knowledge advancement in medical training.

Highly recommend reading this article about a major problem in U.S. medical student education. #medicine #education

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

28.01.2026 03:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prehension and Kuhn Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My new post “Prehension and Kuhn” is now on Substack. #God #science #theology
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25.01.2026 23:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One definition of tone deafness: Scheduling a hospital wide lecture on how to improve physican quality of life when everyone is working in clinic or is in the operating room. #medicine

22.01.2026 00:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Sin Equal to Removing the Evolutionary Potential of Others? Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My new post, “Is Sin Equal to Removing the Evolutionary Potential of Others?”, is now on Substack. #God #Science #Theology johnpohl602530.substack.com/p/is-sin-equ...

18.01.2026 01:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bacterial Translocation and Biliary Atresia in Infants - Practical Gastro Biliary atresia (BA) is a fibro-obliterative disease process of unknown etiology affecting the biliary tract in infants. BA eventually leads to cirrhosis and is the leading cause of liver transplantat...

My newest installment in the "From the Pediatric Literature" section in Practical Gastroenterology. #openaccess #pediatrics #gastroenterology

1. Bacterial Translocation in Biliary Atresia

2. H. pylori Sensitivity Testing in Children

practicalgastro.com/2026/01/16/b...

17.01.2026 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Brain and Morality Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My new post, “The Brain and Morality” is now on Substack. #God #theology #science substack.com/@johnpohl602...

10.01.2026 21:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
In Memoriam: The Academic Journal

Great editorial about the demise of the academic journal

arxiv.org/html/2512.23...

07.01.2026 01:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Sadness of the Ark Encounter is Sadness for All of Us Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My newest post, “The Sadness of the Ark Encounter is Sadness for All of Us” is now on Substack. #God #theology #science
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05.01.2026 01:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Skiing was terrible today due to the lack of snow, but the trees in winter were beautiful. #Utah

03.01.2026 22:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My new post, “A Good Review of Why Biblical Literal Reading is Problematic” is now on Substack. #God #theology #nature

28.12.2025 03:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wishing Dr. Feille much luck here. Tough assignment.

27.12.2025 23:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very good episode. I would recommend the book "The Evidence the Liberal Arts Needs" by Richard Detweiler. His book backs many of your thoughts. Happy Holidays.

22.12.2025 16:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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God, the Halting Problem Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My new post, “God, the Halting Problem” is now on Substack. #God #science #theology substack.com/@johnpohl602...

21.12.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Fragile Students Won't Last in Medicine The Samantha Fulnecky controversy should remind us to keep medical standards high

Interesting read: "Fragile Students Won't Last in Medicine"
#medicine
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

20.12.2025 20:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turtles All the Way Down in Divine Infinite Regress Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My new post, “Turtles All the Way Down in Divine Infinite Regress” is now on Substack. #theology #God
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15.12.2025 00:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Super interesting view from my car yesterday. You can see the plume of gas erupting from Kīlauea in Hawaii.

08.12.2025 02:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Big Island in Hawaii is always beautiful.

03.12.2025 06:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A Great Maxwell Quote Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My newest post, “A Great Maxwell Quote” is now on Substack.
#God #theology #science

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02.12.2025 01:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Theology Journal Club! Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My newest post, “Theology Journal Club!” is now on Substack. #God #science #theology

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24.11.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have been reading (well, via the Audible app) Shelby Foote's "The Civil War." The number of soldiers knocked out of active service due to measles outbreaks often numbered in the thousands. Yet, 21st century people somehow still question the validity of vaccinations. Unreal. #medicine

20.11.2025 00:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It is amazing that I can be contacted by someone typing in Russian about some of my theology work and then I can respond in Russian using AI translation. I think his comment was about my work, but it could’ve been about how to treat constipation. 💩

18.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Want Religoius Certainty: That is a Problem Phi-The-Sci: Equilateral Musings

My newest post, “We Want Religious Certainty: That is a Problem” is now on Substack.
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#God #science #theology

17.11.2025 21:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rare sighting of the Aurora Borealis (northern lights) in our neighborhood tonight. Super cool. #Utah

12.11.2025 03:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Faith and the Microbial World (Jesus Poops!): A Conversation with Dr. John Pohl Podcast Episode · The Whole Church Podcast · 11/05/2025 · 1h 18m

I had a blast talking on The Whole Church podcast! We discussed science, faith, and my book (“A Theology of the Microbiome”)
#theology #science #God
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

06.11.2025 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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