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The Medium is Not the Message

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Marshall McCluhan’s familiar phrase “The Medium is the Message” could help us understand the contrast between the metaphysical naturalist and the creationist Christian worldviews. Naturalists claim…

Why Creationism?

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 One may wonder why these posts have dwelt at length on the topic of creationism, a term the secular media often associate with recent origins of…

Views of Genesis One

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Misunderstandings and suspicion of the Christian view of creation are rampant in the secular world. Unbelievers look at young earth creationist beliefs and may reject the…

Seasons of Renewal

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The universe we inhabit, brought into existence by the Creator, is governed by many laws. One of the most important is the second law of thermodynamics.…

“Wild Animals Honor Me”

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Opportunities to give glory to the Creator for the wisdom programmed into His creatures are ample. At a church dinner in the past week our friends…

God and God Alone

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The emphasis of our blog since January has been “creationism.” Unknown to many people is the fact that the usual suffix “ism” is a dictionary entry…

Choosing Our Beliefs

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Several years ago an acquaintance acknowledged that the issue of the age of the earth and our universe did not bother him. Previously, our discussions about…

Asteroid Ardor

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The Midwest meteor, dubbed the Livingston (Wisconsin) meteor, which spectacularly illuminated the skies over a large portion of several states on April 14, 2010, is an…

Meteor Madness

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Last week my wife and I witnessed the spectacular demise of a space traveler. A large chunk of space rock weighing perhaps a half-ton, arrived at…

Ramm’s Retrospective

By Jim Virkler | September 30, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Two of the most significant books, arguably, setting the tone for creationist debates in the last half-century, were produced just a few years apart back in…