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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…