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Identify the Watchmaker

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Intelligent Design (ID) has acquired a bad name in the community of naturalistic scientists. Some have called the concept of design, and its implications of a…

Our Father’s World

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Some accounts of my personal campaign against NDD–nature deficit disorder–the subject of our last post, are worth sharing. As a college freshman, I was privileged to…

Nature Deficit Disorder

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 There has been a sea change in our culture in the past sixty years. This change has affected the ways in which science is able to…

Metamorphosis Miracle

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 Recently another example of a “teachable moment” for young people presented itself. Our young grandchildren had visited their uncle and aunt for a few days. They…

Teachable Moments

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

By: Jim Virkler; ©2009 In science studies, teachable moments are abundant. But they are also abundant in everyday life. As a career science educator I formed strong, positive views of…

Are Those Stars?

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

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…

Evidence or Revelation?

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

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…

Einstein’s Vindication

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

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…

Scriptural Cosmology

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

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,…

To the Moon and Back

By Jim Virkler | September 29, 2014

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…

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