By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Samuel F. B. Morse’s first telegraph message on May 24, 1844 used a phrase from Numbers 23:23 (KJV): “What Hath God Wrought?” The electronic transmission from…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) is an anomaly among scientists. Charles Darwin was Maxwell’s contemporary, but the similarity in their work and worldviews ends there. While many…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 “We don’t really see each other in this classroom. Instead, we only see the light that is reflected from each other.” This riddle-like proposition has always…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 So you think you’re unique? Modern technology has affirmed what theologians have always known in a spiritual sense: Each of us is unique in the eyes…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 An old philosophical riddle asks, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Several of the body’s senses rely on energy signals received from locations remote from the body. Sound is one example. Our sense of hearing relies on…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Robust discussion of differing points of view makes science, and many other human projects, healthy and viable. For some, such discussions are distasteful and threatening. Others…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 The beauty and operation of our physical world has always triggered deep human reflections on how our sphere of existence manifests the existence of a deity.…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 The orderliness and regularity of apparent movement of stars and constellations of the night sky supports a scriptural principle affirmed in Psalm 119:89-91: “Your word, O…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 When King David penned Psalm 8, he must have flashed back to his former life as a shepherd. No doubt his night tour of duty included…
