By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Garden hoses have an innate tendency to weave themselves into bewildering, inextricable tangles. Perhaps this is just another manifestation of Murphy’s law. Our body cells solve…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Searching through dusty picture albums of my early childhood, I find snapshots of my toddler years do not resemble those taken at my wedding. They bear…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 When a repair or service technician comes to my home, I have the habit of lingering nearby to ask questions. Of course, I ask permission for…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Literacy is a term with rich and diverse meaning. Without a qualifying adjective, it simply means the ability to read and write. Reading and writing ability…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 When discussions about my involvement with science arise, I am sometimes greeted with sentiments such as “I like science!” I am pleased when someone tells me…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 For the third consecutive summer, one of our blog posts highlights the Monarch butterfly, one of the most remarkable animals on the planet. Last weekend I…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Do our personal creationism beliefs really matter? During 2010, many of our posts have focused on various aspects of the issue of creation time scales. It…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Creationism issues have occupied well over half of our blog space since the beginning of 2010. The history of the origins discussion within the church has…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Several months ago a group of thirteen professionally trained astronomers considered formal presentations by two other professionally trained Christian astronomers who presented their arguments on the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 In order for the massive amount of mainstream scientific evidence for the great age of the universe (13.73 billion years) and earth (4.54 billion years) to…