By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 When topics of origins come up for discussion, my comments often trigger the explicit question, “Are you a creationist?” My answer is an equally explicit, “Yes,…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 “In Him we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28 NIV). If I were required to cite a personal favorite verse or passage of…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 Many sound, orthodox church ministries, schools, and organizations proclaim the reality of God and His message of love for mankind. Their ministries are firmly founded on…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 Hymn writer James Rowe (1865-1933) lived during the childhood and working years of our grandparents and great-grandparents–the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In response to…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 When Peter and John healed the man crippled from birth (Acts 3:2), the early post-resurrection church was experiencing vibrant expansion an its first months of existence.…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 Marketing strategies in our day tout the importance of simplicity, ease of use, and effortless purchase of their products. Convenience stores are an invention of the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 Michael Behe, famous for his proposal of irreducible complexity (IC), has endured plentiful cynical ridicule. IC proposes, that in a complex functional system such as the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 Michael Behe is one of the original scientists to popularize the concept of intelligent design in the last two decades. Darwin’s Black Box (1996) introduced the…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 The title of this post is a play on words. Philosophers such as Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig make the proposal that for many, belief…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2012 Bible commentators have contributed several interpretations of the term dust in Genesis 2:7, Genesis 3:19, Psalm 103:14, and Ecclesiastes 3:20. These passages speak of man being…