SCIENCE BLOG

Birds–A Special Class

By Jim Virkler | August 8, 2018

Published 8-8-2018 Fantasize with us: If visitors from a faraway planet were to visit our Solar System, what would be their impression of our planet ? If our visitors have…

Earth–Exceptional or One-of-a-Kind?

By Jim Virkler | July 31, 2018

Published 7-31-2017 “One-of-a-kind” connotes a person or thing that is not like any other person or thing. “Exceptional” is not nearly so exclusive. Virtually all athletes on major league baseball,…

Dismissing ET

By Jim Virkler | July 23, 2018

Published 7-23-2018 SETI, an organization committed to searching for life beyond the confines of our Earth and its Solar System, now researches many other wonderful features of our cosmos. The…

Really Alone?

By Jim Virkler | July 19, 2018

Published 7-19-2018 The question of whether humanity shares characteristics of life with other human or human-like creatures in our enormous universe has long piqued interest from coffee-table conversationalists to professional…

Alone in the Universe

By Jim Virkler | July 14, 2018

Published 7-14-2018 Once again, we recall childhood thoughts about our cosmos. This time, we need to advance our early childhood ideas of the Sumerian cosmic dome to our contemporary concept…

Coordinating Celestial Observations

By Jim Virkler | June 27, 2018

Published 6-27-2018 To introduce astronomy studies to my former students, I regaled them with an account of my early childhood musings about the the Earth and the sky. Some confessed…

Summer Solstice Splendor

By Jim Virkler | June 22, 2018

Published 6-22-2018 Recall your personal response to the “first day of summer” when you were a school student. Children greet this day with happiness and fervor. By this date in…

Regulations on Human Innovation

By Jim Virkler | June 19, 2018

Published 6-19-2018 The CRISPR/Cas9 genetic editing phenomenon receives much press in our current climate. Our government regulators solicit public commentary on lively issues of the day. Well they should, particularly…

Human Knowledge and God’s Image

By Jim Virkler | June 12, 2018

Published 6-12-2018 The concept of God’s image in humanity is a deep and provocative concept. God’s image does not occur in sub-human life even though God’s creative power is evident…

Peril, Paradise, or Divine Plan?

By Jim Virkler | June 5, 2018

Published 6-5-2018 The universe God created may not be described as “paradise,” a perfect, ideal, idyllic place. Yet, In Genesis chapter 1, God pronounced His creation “good” or “very good”…