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A Playful God

By Jim Virkler | April 12, 2016

Published 4-12-2016 Our post title may provoke cries of “Inappropriate!” God is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. We might ask, “How could such a God, Creator of the universe, be a…

Light and Time

By Jim Virkler | April 6, 2016

Published 4-6-2016 As a science teacher one of my favorite curricular topics was astronomy. Some years I extended the unit beyond the time our teaching syllabus actually prescribed. Our supervisor…

Time or Timeless

By Jim Virkler | April 1, 2016

Published 4-1-2016 Our universe, 13.8 billion years of age, reveals a marvelous story of its existence. Within this age-span we possess the timeline of cosmological history. The earliest events following…

What Came Before

By Jim Virkler | March 21, 2016

Published 3-21-2016 As a student I wondered if there was a beginning to time. I reasoned that every day must follow a preceding day. Therefore, time had always existed without…

A Gifted Einstein

By Jim Virkler | March 16, 2016

Published 3-16-2016 The trio of gifted scientists beginning with Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell ends with Albert Einstein, the 20th century contributor to the revolutionary “field” concept. Einstein, who…

Variety of Giftedness

By Jim Virkler | March 11, 2016

Published 3-11-2016 The popular excitement generated by the detection of gravity waves (more accurately gravitational waves) in February 2016 has inspired popular broadening of interest in science as it molds…

Natural Born Scientists: Children

By Jim Virkler | March 7, 2016

Published 3-7-2016 “Every child starts out as a natural born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm…

Torrance’s Scientific Theology

By Jim Virkler | March 2, 2016

Published 3-2-2016 Brilliant theologian Thomas F. Torrance passed into eternity in 2007. We imagine that Torrance would have experienced exuberant enjoyment at the recent scientific detection of gravity waves. He…

Unified Forces

By Jim Virkler | February 26, 2016

Published 2-26-2016 My maternal grandfather was born in Switzerland in 1860. I enjoy informing friends that my direct ancestor, only two generations removed from me, was born before the American…

Maxwell and Einstein

By Jim Virkler | February 19, 2016

Published 2-19-2016 The recent detection of gravitational waves highlights not merely one, but two of the greatest scientists in history and the startling intersections of their respective discoveries. Many news…

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