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Descriptive and Explanatory

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Science educators devote a majority of their teaching to one, or at most two of three major knowledge disciplines–physical science, earth science, or life science. These…

DNA and Psalm 139

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 One of the most moving passages in Scripture speaks of God’s omniscience with respect to the unborn and his knowledge of temporal events even before they…

Seeing God in Nature

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Our reference to the flow of genetic information is summarized by the famous biological flowchart DNAà RNA à Proteins. This representation is the essence of truth…

Protein Fabricators

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Biology textbooks summarize the flow of genetic information as follows: DNAà RNAà Protein. Our two previous posts dealt with the first two elements of this basic…

Obeying Your DNA

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Many of man’s construction strategies originate from our knowledge of what takes place in the nucleus of living cells. The human DNA molecule, present in virtually…

Information Duplicators

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 To prepare for this post we found ourselves chuckling about the antiquated duplicators of our childhood. In early primary grades our teachers used the ditto machine.…

More than DNA

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Radio commentator Paul Harvey (1918-2009) was famous for his “The Rest of the Story” segments. Sometimes people perceive an air of knowledge with clever emphasis on…

Describe or Explain?

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 The current blitz of 17-year cicada publicity brings to mind the desire of journalists to explain and justify their stories. What research did they access? What…

Unique Cicada Cycles

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 The tall trees on the stately lawn of my grandparents’ farmstead supplied unmatched opportunities for children to collect spent “dog day” cicada shells. This common cicada…

Lost Timekeepers

By Jim Virkler | October 2, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Recently my treasured wristwatch disappeared. It belonged to my father who passed to eternal life in 1999. I had claimed this watch as my own and…

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