By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 The paradigm of “No Death before the Fall” of Adam and Eve has become one of the bedrock tenets of the belief in a young earth…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 Some creationists propose that from the time the creation was completed by God as described in Genesis 1, it has undergone some fundamental changes in its…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 Time may be considered either a coffee table discussion topic or an esoteric subject of interest mainly to scientists and philosophers. Coffee table conversationalists sometimes say,…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 The cosmological arrow of time signals a constantly expanding universe. As we observe this phenomenon we have a sense of time moving forward. Our universe was…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 Statements from skeptics that a loving, benevolent God should not permit decay, pain, suffering, evil, or death do not indicate their basic understanding of the advantages…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 Stephen Hawking discusses three arrows of time in his popular 1988 volume A Brief History of Time and subsequent updates. He defines an arrow of time…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 Jesus Christ’s startling utterance “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End” (Rev. 22:13) could not refer…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 We are firmly embedded between the “bookends of time.” The “books” between the bookends contain a record of events in our temporal sphere–earth history from the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 Many people who lived five decades or more ago remember the popular hymn “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder.” This title was requested more frequently…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2011 A popular current scientific buzz is an imaginative concept called the “multiverse” which posits that at the Big Bang multiple universes may have been generated. Perhaps,…
