Jim Virkler

Pivot Points

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Resurgence of the view of earth as a very young planet and a global flood sculpting all of earth’s features in recent times was a pivotal…

The Perfect Storm

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 A massive flood is a devastating meteorological event of great impact. Ingrained in the psyches of many religious people is the sense that floods, hurricanes, earthquakes,…

Flood Preparedness

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 As I write this post, our local newspaper has warned the community that spring floods on the Mississippi may be imminent. There was a large buildup…

Rimmer to Ramm

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 In the days following World War II my parents and their friends frequently attended Saturday evening meetings sponsored by evangelistic outreach organizations. It was the late…

George McCready Price

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The influential thinking of George McCready Price (1870-1963) is worthy of our careful study. Consciously or not, contemporary evangelical Christians who subscribe to belief in a…

E. G. White and G. M. Price

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Perhaps no figure in the current creationism debate in our churches is more important than George McCready Price (1870-1963). Because his credentials were undistinguished he is…

400 Years of Discovery

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Prior to tracing development of 20th and 21st century beliefs about creation time scales among church goers, we may benefit by a more extensive retrospect. Was…

Scofield and Gap Creationism

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 One of my treasured possessions is a King James Version Scofield Reference Bible presented to my father in 1966 by board members from the church he…

Distress After Darwin

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 In the decades after Darwin, we may ask what were the issues of greatest concern in the church. The theory of evolution began to hold sway…

History Repeating

By Jim Virkler / September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The first half of the 19th century was a significant era of geological discovery. Geologists, many from the British Isles, mapped out the rock layers showing…

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