By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The emphasis of our blog since January has been “creationism.” Unknown to many people is the fact that the usual suffix “ism” is a dictionary entry…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Two of the most significant books, arguably, setting the tone for creationist debates in the last half-century, were produced just a few years apart back in…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 My public school teaching career was launched in 1959 at the beginning of a period of intensifying social and political tumult. The early 1960s marked a…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 When we hear the term compromise, we feel one side or the other loses something important. This may or may not be true. Compromise is often…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Statements concerning the danger of repeating the mistakes of history have been made by many authors. So it is with the quality of the contemporary Christian…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Augustine (354-430 AD), one of the great theologians of the early church, wrote at length on the work of God’s creation outlined in Genesis. His work,…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Creationism is a term with many meanings. This science/faith blog has often connected that word with a time scale. We have used terms like old earth,…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The longer we read articles dealing with health foods and sound nutrition the more we encounter words such as pure, plain, and natural to describe advertised…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Evangelical historian Mark Noll has penned a succinct definition of creationism. Noll says “The word creationism by rights should define all who discern a divine mind…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Resurgence of the view of earth as a very young planet and a global flood sculpting all of earth’s features in recent times was a pivotal…
