By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 Recently a young earth friend pronounced me an evolutionist because I believe life has existed on this earth for hundreds of millions of years on this…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 Young earth creationist believers support their belief system by adhering to what I’ll call the “2-Ds” — death, and days. In this post we’ll deal with…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 In the previous post we pointed out that denial of any physical death before Adam’s fall permits YEC believers to preserve their concept of an earth…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 Some Christians are not aware of how science works, not to mention what science has discovered. Since roughly the 16th and 17th centuries, through the contributions…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 Naturalism is the term given to a major worldview category. One form of naturalism is atheistic materialism. Because of confusion in terminology, naturalism is sometimes misunderstood.…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 People occasionally express doubts about the findings of science. Let’s examine why this is true. Some scientists are metaphysical naturalists. They neither believe in the supernatural…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 “Let science be science, and let religion be religion.” How often have we heard similar statements? One example of this firmly established naturalistic worldview in our…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 Last night’s live debate from the UAB campus between Richard Dawkins, well-known atheist and author of The God Delusion, and Dr. John Lennox, Christian apologist and…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 Some people think naturalism has scientific implications only. In future posts we will examine its broad impact on our entire culture. But for now, let’s look…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2007 Society’s confidence in science (see Oct. 9 post) has helped birth the philosophy of naturalism: Nature is “all there is.” This philosophy guides scientists known as…
