By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 Before man developed telescopes able to clearly image galaxies outside our own Milky Way, some early scientists and philosophers reasoned that our universe appeared far too…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 For animals and plants, including humans, cell division resulting from mitosis results in growth, repair, and renewal of the body and its tissues. Our posts have…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 Flashback to memories of your early courses in biology. One term–mitosis–may come to mind. Perhaps you even recall diagrams or animations of chromosome pairs organizing themselves…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2014 Building projects supply instructive imageries to illustrate life’s important lessons. Imageries use figurative language to make a point. As a classroom teacher, one of my favorite…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Why focus on emergentism, a term obscure to most people who profess interest in science? Many initially profess their interest in science. When interested adults discover…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 One colorful English language word has become obsolete as a scientific term. Vitalism was never a theological term used to describe the essence of life God…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Broad topics should be approached with cautious care. Scientific reductionism is such a topic. Characteristics of living things is a multidimensional topic often connected with the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 Hebrew scholars have identified 754 uses of the noun nephesh in scripture. A majority of these uses are translated soul in our English Bible. There are…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, our church congregation was treated to an inverted treatment of the text of Psalm 65. Verses 9-13 contain Thanksgiving imageries of…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2013 The words nature, natural, naturalist, and naturalism are English terms sometimes surrounded by confusion. Nature refers to the physical world including plants, animals, landscape, and other…
