By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 We encourage email responses to our blog content. Our 4/19 post generated a thoughtful, detailed response worth sharing with our readers. The writer responded to several…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Expelled, the newly released movie by Ben Stein, will generate howls of horror by the community of evolutionists, particularly those in the academic world. Our readers…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Several Christian friends of mine are theistic evolutionists with whom I have had lively discussions. Theistic evolutionists state that God, at the beginning, brought all things…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) is an organization of scientists who are Christians sharing a common fidelity to the Word of God and a commitment to…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 The stamina of evolution is well-known. There is no question that it is firmly ingrained in our science and in our culture. This is true partly…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 For many years I have heard scientific laypeople, in conversations or letters, express their thoughts that evolution is “tested and proven…rock solid.” Strangely, most evolutionary scientists…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Apologists for evolution frequently cite examples of microevolution to exemplify their major paradigm of “descent with modification from a common ancestor.” Microevolution involves small scale changes…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Imagine the following as part of a discussion taking place in a public school biology class: “Each of the eleven major human body systems is so…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Belief in evolution is strengthened by support from religious authorities, ranging from two recent Roman Catholic popes to an array of mainline protestant clergy. In a…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2008 Several years ago I initiated written communication with two well-known evolutionary scientists. Much of the discussion centered on the interaction of science and religion. I cannot…