Jim Virkler

Truth and Reality

By Jim Virkler / September 28, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Whenever I raise the subject of evolution with friends, strong emotions are generated. Many of these emotions are the result of a misunderstanding about what constitutes…

Different Strokes

By Jim Virkler / September 28, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 The famous American idiom “Different Strokes for Different Folks” tells us that different people like or need different things. Let’s examine how multitudes of important scientific…

Design Makes Sense

By Jim Virkler / September 28, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Many evolutionists ridicule the idea that nature’s designs indicate a designer. Richard Dawkins and Francis Crick, among many others, claim appearance of design is misleading and…

Nothing…Makes Sense…

By Jim Virkler / September 28, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Around midpoint of the last century, bio-scientists increasingly began to talk about evolution unifying every dimension of life science. In 1958, evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith…

Metamorphosis and Migration

By Jim Virkler / September 28, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Flashback to our early days of child rearing: Collect a few milkweed caterpillars, the familiar larvae of the monarch butterfly…Keep them well supplied for a week…

All Things Hold Together

By Jim Virkler / September 28, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Indicators of an intelligent Creator stare at us from the microcosm to the macrocosm. Design features logically and rationally point to a designer. In the world…

Dynamic Planet Earth

By Jim Virkler / September 28, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Science writers are fond of describing our planet with phrases like “Our Dynamic Earth.” Dynamic is a word used to convey force, power, and energy. Even…

Progressive Science Education

By Jim Virkler / September 27, 2014

A number of factors propelled changes in science education when I first entered teaching. One important event was Russia’s launch of the satellite Sputnik 1. I vividly recall viewing Sputnik…

The Reality of Plate Tectonics

By Jim Virkler / September 27, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Instructors at an NSF Oceanography Institute I attended in the mid-1960s were still using the term “continental drift” to describe the apparent movement of continents with…

The Origin of Recycling

By Jim Virkler / September 27, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Recycling has become a distinctive of modern life. Citizens who were alive during World War II, however, may recall a few formal recycling practices, such as…