By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 The concept of soulishness in animals other than humans has become a source of personal study and fascination. In several posts during the past few years,…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, our church congregation was treated to an inverted treatment of the text of Psalm 65. Verses 9-13 contain Thanksgiving imageries of…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 The words nature, natural, naturalist, and naturalism are English terms sometimes surrounded by confusion. Nature refers to the physical world including plants, animals, landscape, and other…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 A miracle is an effect which is not reproducible by the operation of “natural” causes. Each day of our lives hundreds of effects result from causes…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 The popular catch phrase of creationists the past few decades is “fine tuning.” Creationists and Intelligent Design proponents sometimes use the term to strengthen belief in…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Life, especially human life, is balanced “on a razor’s edge.” The characteristics enabling life to exist in our universe are numerous and incredibly complex. Imagine the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Each day of our existence we trust the physical conditions of our environment to prove “predictable” and “as expected.” We do not propose that weather forecasters…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 This post title is a deliberate attention-getter. Radiation is seldom used in this context of creationism. The term commonly signals some sort of energy transfer carried…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Mentality: “The characteristic attitude of mind or way of thinking of a person…” This internet definition focuses on human attitudes, processes of thought, and beliefs across…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 The professional science community studies and describes the functions of living systems from simple to advanced, from bacteria to humanity. It has also provided advanced knowledge…