By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 “Grandpa, are those stars?” queried my 3 ½ year old granddaughter one late fall evening when I carried her out under the dark night sky of…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Bible topics widely thought to refer to scientific topics should be approached with care. We must be sure we are using the Scripture mainly to affirm…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Two adult Bible Class courses in my home church in 1997 and 1998 were entitled “Bible Science” and “The Cosmos Cries ‘Creator!’” I taught these classes…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 The Apollo 11 moon exploration anniversary may cause us to consider the cosmological concepts held by ancient biblical characters and scripture writers. Did they, for example,…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Where were you at the moment humans first walked on the moon? The 40th anniversary of this event has given us an opportunity for recall. I…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 When arguments are made for one point of view or another, they are presented with various types of logic: deductive, inductive, and sometimes, abductive. For example,…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 One of the most profound difficulties we face in achieving a reasonably complete and accurate picture of historic Genesis events is the problem of interpreting the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Focus on the Family’s Truth Project is an effective worldview program which presents the scriptural foundation for God’s guidelines for man in a dozen major categories…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 The well-known phrase “What did he know, and when did he know it?” is an artifact of past courtroom inquiries. As I research scientific discoveries since…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Readers old enough to have studied biology before 1960 now realize that the course emphasis has changed. We recall a term for the “living substance” of…