Dr. James J. S. Johnson
Chief Academic Officer, Associate Professor of Apologetics
Bible, Apologetics, Education, Forensic Science, History

Dr. James Johnson serves ICR’s Christian education programs (including ICR’s School of Biblical Apologetics, Origins Matter Short Course series, and ACSI lectures). Previously he taught for LeTourneau University, Dallas Christian College, Tyndale Theological Seminary, and Concordia University Texas (history, ethics, biosciences, ecology, apologetics, evidence, law, Bible, and international studies). Dr. Johnson’s forensic science background includes a J.D. (University of North Carolina, 1984), trial attorney and judicial experience, two post-doc certifications, and years of American Academy of Forensic Sciences membership. As a paternity establishment officer (certified by the Texas Attorney General’s Office), he has provided expert testimony in court proceedings, as well as biogenetic family history analysis used to change Texas birth certificates. Dr. Johnson’s biblical studies background includes biblical languages study (American Bible Society Award, 1982, mostly for Hebrew and Aramaic), a Th.D. (Emmanuel College of Christian Studies, 1996), a D.Min. (Tyndale Theological Seminary, 2022), ACSI credentials, and service as a Protestant chaplain (BSA, National Capital Area). He is co-author of Parks Across America: Viewing God's Wonders Through a Creationist Lens and Fascinating Creatures: Evidence of Christ's Handiwork, and a contributor to Guide to Creation Basics, Creation Basics & Beyond, Sea Creatures: Discovering God's Underwater Wonders, Volcanoes: Earth's Explosive Past, and Animals: How Creature Features Defy Evolution.

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Forensic Science / Evidence Analysis / Biogenetic Family History

“300 Viking Skeletons Unearthed, Illustrating Deuteronomy 19:15’s Proof Standard,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas; December 15, 2024), 23 pages.

“Viking Adventures and Providential Family History, Illustrating Isaiah 42:10,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Richardson, Texas; December 14, 2024), 128 pages.

“Light Shining in Darkness: Norway's Lutheran Reformation and Ole Bie's Evangelical Mission in India's Serampore,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, October 27, 2024), 37 pages.

“Norwegian Migrants in America: Recalling 200 Years (and Beyond),” Leif Eiriksson Laksfest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Richardson, Texas, October 4, 2024), 59 pages.

“God Used Vikings to Bless America, by George! (illustrating Psalm 102:18),” Leif Eiriksson Laksfest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Richardson, Texas, October 4, 2024), 6 pages.

“How Orkney’s Pål Thorfinnsson Survived the Battle of Stamford Bridge, September 25th A.D.1066, and Why that Matters to Scotland (and to the Rest of the Universe),” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, September 15, 2024), 4 pages.

“Go West, Young Norseman (and Other Norwegians, too)! What Goes Around, Comes Around, with Insights from Acts 16:6-10,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 18, 2024), 25 pages.

“Norwegian Footprints: Hans Nielsen Hauge, Ole Bie, Cleng Peerson, Ketil Björnsson, and More, Illustrating Zechariah 4:10,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, May 11, 2024), 29 pages.

“Demographic Dynamics in Scotland, Illustrating Genesis 9:1-7,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, January 21, 2024), 3 pages.

“Orkney Tragedy: 7-year-old Norwegian Girl’s Fate Triggers Turmoil in Scotland and Norway, Illustrating James 4:14-15,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, September 24, 2023), 10 pages.

“Norwegian Travels and Troubles: Appreciating Syttende Mai Independence Efforts and Norwegian Pioneers in America, Illustrating Job 5:7,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, May 27, 2023), 20 pages.

“Making Sense of Norwegian Sights and Sounds: Three Examples from Nordic History (including Leif Eiriksson),” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 20, 2023), 9 pages.

“Iceland’s Hallgrimskirkja: Following the Nordic Christian Legacy of Leif Eiriksson,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 20, 2023), 7 pages.

“Ketil Flat-nose, Norse Viking King of the Hebrides, Biogenetically Linked (by Providential Procreations) to the King James Bible Translation, Illustrating Isaiah 55:11,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2023), 27 pages.

"The Viking 'Air Force': How Norway's King Harald Hardrada Copied Russia's Queen Olga", Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2023), 8 pages.

“Vikings Helped to Found the USA, Providentially Speaking, by George!” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2023), 6 pages.

“Norwegian Viking Roots of the King James Bible,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2023), 7 pages.

“Sitric Silkbeard, Contemporary of Vikings Leif Eiriksson and Olaf Tryggvason,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, October 22, 2022), 16 pages.

“Viking ‘Gokstad Ship’ from Vestfold, Once Buried with Olaf Geirstad-Alf (Half-brother of Halfdan the Black), Now Linked to Texas Carpetbagger, via Convoluted Biogenetic Lineage,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, September 25, 2022), 14 pages.

“Norway’s Eidsmoe Immigrants: Surviving Disaster on Lake Erie, Settling in Wisconsin,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, September 25, 2022), 19 pages.

“Teutonic Roots for Carpetbagger Fruits: From German-speaking Frankland into Texas, Tracking Multi-Generational Migrations,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 44 (3): 64-75 (fall 2022).

“From Norway’s Vestfold into Texas, a Biogenetic Voyage: From Norse Roots, through Many ‘Begets’, Now into the Lone Star State,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, August 27, 2022), 11 pages.

“Tromsø, Home of Óttar the Merchant-Viking, with Appendix regarding Tromsø’s Mimi Fossum, World War II Norwegian Resistance Patriot: Do We Need Eye-Witnesses to Understand Past Events?,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24, 2022), 7 pages.

“Clontarf’s Celtic Family Feud in Viking Age Ireland: Irish-Norse Sitric ‘Silkbeard’ Olafsson, Ireland’s Brian Boru, Ireland’s Máel Mórda mac Murchada, Orcadian-Norse Sigurd ‘the Stout’ Hlodvirsson, Danish-Manx Brothers Bróðir and Óspak, and More – How Ireland’s Queen Gormlaith Catalyzed the Battle of Clontarf, Illustrating James 3:16,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Sherman, Texas, March 20, 2022), 12 pages.

“How Fake ‘Science’ and Sloppy Theology Both Oppose the Gospel,” 17th Annual Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference (Houston, Texas, March 9, 2022), 61 pages.

“Leif (the Lucky) Eiriksson: Viking Explorer of Vinland and Evangelist of Greenland,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, October 23, 2021), 7 pages.

“Viking Vinland, Dendrochronology, and Solar Storm-recorded Wood,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, October 23, 2021), 6 pages.

“Leif Eiriksson, Exemplifying Both the Genesis Mandate and the Great Commission: Filling the Earth in Vinland, plus Evangelizing Kinfolk in Viking Age Greenland” presented to the Norwegian Society of Texas (Dallas, Texas, October 16, 2021 [Althing meeting]; 6 pages).

“Scandinavia, Scotland, and the Genesis Mandate,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 18, 2021), 8 pages.

“Norman-French Cuisine Invades England (Somewhat) in A.D.1066,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 18, 2021), 6 pages.

“Septuagint vs. Masoretic Debate: Johnson and Daniels Response to Carter and Cosner Letter,” co-authored with David W. Daniels, Creation Research Society Quarterly, 57 (1): 65-68 (summer 2021).

“Military History Investigated Using Forensic Science: What Happened at Mystick, Connecticut’s Pequot War Battlefield?,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 14, 2020), 10 pages.

“Gothic Dice Found in Norwegian Grave Cairn,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 6 pages.

“King Olaf Tryggvason: Tragedies and Triumphs in the Life of Norway’s Christian Viking King,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 18 pages.

“Grave Surprise Found, Underneath Norwegian House: Viking Artifacts Illustrate Unknown Events of the Past,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 4 pages.

Septuagint Subterfuges: Confusions, Commotions, and Corruptions—a Forensic Science Critique, Dean Burgon Society Conference (online, Texas, July 30, 2020), 43 pages.

“Provenance Problems of the Septuagint vs. Providential Preservation of the Bible’s Hebrew Text, a Reply to Douglas Ell,” co-authored with David W. Daniels, Creation Research Society Quarterly, 56 (4): 261-264 (spring 2020).

“Snorri Thorfinnsson, First Viking Baby Born in North America, Born to Iceland-born Gudrid Thorbjornsdottir, Shipwreck Survivor Rescued by Leif Eiriksson,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, September 28, 2019), 8 pages.

“Olaf Tryggvason, Norway’s Christian Viking King: Adventures in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Russia, Wendland, Saxland, Frisia, France, Britain (Scotland, England, Wales, Scilly), Ireland, Hebrides, Orkney, and Back to Scandinavia,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, September 28, 2019), 16 pages.

“Silkbeard the Survivor: Making Sense of Viking-Age Dublin’s Dynastic Family Feuds and the Battle of Clontarf,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, September 28, 2019), 11 pages.

“Biogenetic Sequence of Descent from Aud the Deep-minded, through Sigurd Hlodvirsson, to Ragnhild Olafsdottir (Somerled’s Wife), Linking the Battle of Clontarf to Scotland’s House of Stewart,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 12 pages.

“Maelbrigte’s Revenge, Aud Ketilsdottir’s Flight to Iceland, and Other Turning Points in Scotland’s Viking History,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 6 pages.

“DNA-Tracking King Somerled, Corroborating Providential Family History Linked to the Battle of Stamford Bridge in A.D.1066,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 19 pages.

“Bone Biochemistry: Forensic Analysis of Viking Skeletons Corrects Carbon-14 Date-of-Death Calculation Flaws,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 14 pages.

“A Terrible Day at the Beach for Nordic-Polar Dinosaurs: Tracking Clues at Svalbard, Linked to Buried [Plateosaurus Fossil Bone] Treasure in the Norwegian North Sea,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 15 pages.

“For Viking Descendants, It’s a Providential Miracle We were ever Procreated, Considering the High-Risk Lifestyles of Our Viking Forefathers and Foremothers,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 6 pages.

“Sandwich Terns [Thalasseus sanvicensis] at Hamlet’s Castle in Helsingør, Danish Zealand,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 7 pages.

“Applying Colossians 2:16 to Family History Celebrations, with Herring Smørrebrød (and ‘Some More’ Nordic Cuisine),” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, March 24, 2019), 21 pages.

“Sitric ‘Silkbeard,’ Family Fireworks, and Viking Age Ireland (including the Battle of Clontarf), Illustrating James 3:16,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 24, 2019), 12 pages.

“King Olaf Tryggvason: Norway’s Viking King, Bold in Might, to Enforce the Right,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 24, 2019), 16 pages.

“Gudrid Thorbjornsdottir: First European Mother to Give Birth on American Soil,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 24, 2019), 8 pages.

“Volksdeutsche by the Dozen, Part Eight:  Refugees in Austria, Fleeing Post-WWII Europe for America—The Jakob & Katarina Webel Family Journey to a New Home,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 40 (1): 38-54 (spring 2018).

“Radiocarbon-Dating at Repton: Viking Skeletons Corroborate ‘Great Heathen Army’ History, Disproving Conventional Carbon-14 Assumptions,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 25, 2018), 10 pages.

“Volksdeutsche by the Dozen, Part Seven: Surviving on an Austrian Farm (and Elsewhere) After World War II—Jakob & Katarina Webel Family, Hoping for a New Home,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 39 (4): 389-418 (winter 2017).

“Norwegian Heroes who Loved God and Loved their Fellow Man: Colonel Ole Bie and Hans Nielsen Hauge,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 20, 2017), 14 pages.

“A Tale of Two Viking Kings: The Rivalry of Norse Co-kings Magnus Olafsson and Harald Hardrada,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth: March 26, 2017), 11 pages.

“Volksdeutsche by the Dozen, Part Six: After Yugoslavia, Wandering through Europe—Jakob & Katarina Webel Family, Fleeing to Germany,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 39 (1): 196-215 (spring 2017).

“Ole Bie and Hans Nielsen Hauge: Two Norwegian Lutherans who Advanced the Genesis Mandate,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth: February 26, 2017), 11 pages.

“Herring, Copper, and Musical Thrones in Norway:  Illustrating Applications of Amos 3:3 in Providential History,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth: September 25, 2016), 34 pages.

“Volksdeutsche by the Dozen, Part Five: Fleeing Yugoslavia, Escaping the Communist Takeover: Jakob & Katarina Webel Flee toward Germany,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 38 (4): 110-124 (autumn 2016).

“Thank God for Norwegian Rats!” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas,  Arlington, Texas, May 14, 2016), 21 pages.

“Volksdeutsche by the Dozen, Part Four:  Surviving in Yugoslavia, Then Fleeing for the First Time – Jakob & Katarina Webel Escape from Marinci to Vinkovci,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 37 (4): 219-240 (winter 2015).

“Deism, Uniformitarianism, and ‘Natural Selection,’” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, November 7, 2015); 82 pages.

“Mislabeling Crabs and Creationists,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 52 (2): 50 (fall 2015).

“Blood Crying from the Ground, a Forensic Science Perspective, Illustrated by the Gruesome Killing of America’s Most Hated Woman,” co-authored with Dr. Jeffrey Tomkins, presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Dallas, Texas, July 31, 2015; 25 pages.

“Penguin Eggs to Die For:  Forensic Science Perspectives on the AD1912 Tragedy in Antarctica, Disappointing Natural Selection Apologetics and Phylogenetic Theory,” presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Dallas, Texas, July 31, 2015; 50 pages.

“Mystick Mystery: Scientists Investigate Connecticut’s Pequot War Battlefield,” presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Dallas, Texas, July 31, 2015; 10 pages.

“Honoring the Sexcentenary Anniversary of Den Upálení Mistra Jan Husa: A Texas Perspective, 600 Years After the Goose was Cooked,” ÄŒeské Stopy [Czech Footprints]. 15 (2): 20-21 (summer 2015).

Volksdeutsche by the Dozen, Part Three: World War II Confronts Jakob and Katarina Webel  (Swabians Face Nazi Invaders and Yugoslavia’s Break-Up),” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 37 (2): 98-113 (summer 2015).

“Linguistic Aspects of Great Commission Progress Match Noah’s Prophecy,” presented at the Maranatha Biblical Ministries Conference, Hurst, Texas, June 13, 2015; 28 pages (plus appendices).

“To Globally Sow His Word, Did God Use Vikings?,” presented at the Maranatha Biblical Ministries Conference, Hurst, Texas, June 13, 2015; 7 pages.

“Pine Needles, Limes, and Other Simple Solutions,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 50 (3): 193-194 (winter 2014).

“Both Human and Biochemical Languages Causally Originated by Creative Selections, So Neither ‘Evolved,’” presented at the Language and Biological Information Origins and Development Conference (International Linguistics Center, Dallas, Texas, October 10, 2014), 39 pages.

“Forensic Science Perspectives, for Creation Controversies, with Insights for Creation Science Educators,” presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Petersburg, Kentucky, August 9, 2014; 61 pages.

 “Biogenetic Family History, an Under-Appreciated Creation Science, with Insights for Creation Science Educators,” presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Petersburg, Kentucky, August 9, 2014; 41 pages.

“Volksdeutsche in Croatia, Before World War II: Jakob and Katarina Webel are Merchants in Marinci (Taking Care of Business and the Business of Life),” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 36 (3): 154-170 (fall 2014).

“Two Norwegians’ Biogenetic Footprints in American and Texas History,” Texas Independence Day Lecture Series (Bosque Museum, Clifton, Texas, March 10, 2013), 19 pages.

“Volksdeutsche by the Dozen, Part One: Jakob and Katarina Agreed to Marry Before They Ever Spoke to Each Other (A True Example of Love at First Sight…and First Sound),” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 35 (1): 25-32 (spring 2013).

“DNA Says Manx Viking King, Somerled, the Celebrated Founding Father of Scottish Clans, had a ‘Norse’ Patrilinear Ancestry” presented to the Norwegian Society of Texas (Fort Worth, Texas, March 24, 2012 [Althing meeting]; 16 pages).

“From Hohenstaufen to Texas, a Long Journey: From German Roots, through Many ‘Begats,’ Now into the Lone Star State,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 33 (1): 50-60 (spring 2011).

“Czech into Texas, at Last! From Bohemian Roots, to a Moravian Log Cabin, to the Lone Star State,” ÄŒeské Stopy [Czech Footprints]. 13 (1): 15-22 (spring 2011).

“Beowulf, the Great Flood, and those Mysterious Chinese Pictographs: Despite Babel, Beowulf’s History Recalls the Global Flood”, Viking Heritage Seminar, (Norwegian Society of Texas, Plano, Texas: June 21, 2008), 21 pages.

“From Germany’s Rhine to the East Texas Pine: How an Immigrating Line of German-Speaking Glattfelders Stretched to East Texas’s Piney Woods,” Journal of the German-Texan Heritage Society, 28 (3): 246-254 (fall 2005).

Bible / Biblical Philology / Biblical History and Archaeology

“Special Delivery on Day 4 of Creation Week: Distant Starlight’s Transmission Reported in Genesis 1:17,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, October 25, 2024), 5 pages.

“King Mesha’s Moabite Stone: Hostile Witness Corroboration of 2nd Kings 3:4 and Genesis 49 Prophecies,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, October 26, 2024), 3 pages.

“Why Didn’t King Belshazzar Summon Daniel to Explain the Handwriting on the Wall? Aramaic Vocabulary Helps to Explain the Unwelcome Witness of Daniel 5:22-23,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, October 26, 2024), 14 pages.

“Opportunities to Connect Genesis Truth with the Gospel,” 17th Annual Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference (Houston, Texas, March 9, 2022), 48 pages.

“Passing Through ‘Paths of Seas’ (in Psalm 8:8): Are Fishes ‘Going with the Flow’ or Migrating Actively Cross-Current (Against the Flow of Seawater)?,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, October 23, 2021), 9 pages.

“God Floods Earth, yet Preserves Ark-borne Humans and Animals: Exegetical and Geological Notes on Genesis 7,” co-authored with Timothy L. Clarey, Creation Research Society Quarterly, 57 (4): 248-262 (spring 2021).

“Clarifying Confusion about Eagles’ Wings,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 57 (1): 57-59 (summer 2020).

“What Is Called the Septuagint Today Is Not What Existed in the First Century A.D., a Reply to Craig Davis,” co-authored with David W. Daniels, Creation Research Society Quarterly, 56 (3): 188-191 (winter 2020).

“Extensive Messianic Prophecy Corruptions and Flood-related Chronology Errors Disqualify the Septuagint (LXX) as a Reliable Source for Creationist Research,” co-authored with Dr. Jeffrey P. Tomkins & David W. Daniels, Creation Research Society Quarterly, 56 (1): 40-47 (summer 2019).

“Rightly ‘Dividing’ the Word about Peleg: Was Earth’s Unusual ‘Division’ in Peleg’s Lifetime a Linguistic Event or a Geological Event?” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 56 (1): 4-16 (summer 2019), updated from original version presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Lancaster, South Carolina, July 10, 2009; 29 pages).

“Why is the Septuagint Now Being Promoted by Opponents of the Masoretic Text’s Young-Earth-Creation Chronology?” 41st Annual Dean Burgon Society Bible Conference (Garland, Texas: July 25, 2019), 25 pages.

“Do Isaiah 40:22 and Psalm 29:10 Speak to Cosmological Realities? Considering the ‘Waters Above’ and Earth’s Cosmic Choreography,” co-authored with Jake Hebert, Creation Research Society Quarterly, 55 (1): 44-48 (summer 2018).

“Animal Allusions within Matthew’s Gospel,” Journal of Dispensational Theology, 20 (60): 159-172 (summer-fall 2016).

“Were the Philistines of Ashdod Struck with Hemorrhoids or by the Bubonic Plague?  Exegetical Review of 1 Samuel 5 and 6,” presented at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dallas, Texas: April 1, 2016; 22 pages.

“What is theרָק&O
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“Critiquing a Textual Critic’s Critique of 1 Thessalonians 2:7,” Dean Burgon Society Conference, Garland, Texas, July 22, 2015; 14 pages.

“How the Moabite Stone Corroborates a Prophecy in Genesis 49,” Bible and Spade, 27 (3): 68-74 (2014)

“Ruth, the Moabitess within the Messianic Line—or, Redeemed by Love, and Grafted into His Family” presented to the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Fort Worth, Texas, April 7, 2000; 132 pages)

 “King Mesha, King Balak, and Ruth: A Judicial Comparison of How Three Moabites Responded to Providential History-Revealed Truth about God—and a New Translation of the Moabite Stone” presented to the 52nd Annual Evangelical Theological Society Conference (Nashville, Tennessee, November 16, 2000; 208 pages).

“Does Bereshith Mean ‘In a Beginning’?” Creation Matters, 18 (3): 6-7 (May-June 2013).

“When Jesus Took Time Out to Bless the Children,” Biblical History, 1 (3): 50-55 (October 1987).

“Using Scriptural Data to Calculate a Range-Qualified Chronology from Adam to Abraham, with Comments on Why the ‘Open’-or-‘Closed' Genealogy Question Is Chronometrically Irrelevant” presented at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society,” co-authored with Dr. Thomas D. Ice (Dallas, Texas, March 1 , 2002; 44 pages).

“Rightly ‘Dividing’ the Word about Peleg: Was Earth’s Unusual ‘Division’ in Peleg’s Lifetime a Linguistic Event or a Geological Event?” presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Lancaster, South Carolina, July 10, 2009; 29 pages).


Biblical Theology / Epistemology / Apologetics

“Revelation Record Award for Teaching Dispensational Theology,” presented to Chaplain Robert Webel, Pre-Trib Study Group Conference (Irving, Texas, December 9, 2024).

“How Matthew Reports the Teachings of Christ that Include Animal Illustrations,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, October 26, 2024), 20 pages.

“Norwegian Immigrants Adjust to Challenges in America, Illustrating the Providence Principle of Ruth 1:1-2,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, June 29, 2024), 14 pages.

“Sigurd the Mighty, Maelbrigte Deadly-Tooth, Aud the Deep-minded, Ketil Flat-nose, Thorstein the Red, Thorfinn Skull-splitter, Groa Thorsteinsdottir, Olaf Tryggvason, Sitric Silkenbeard, and a few others, illustrating Psalm 102:18,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 18, 2024), 36 pages.

“Norwegian Fine Arts: Rosemåling, Viking Wood Carving, Philatelic Art, Heraldic Art, Hallgrimskirkja Architecture, Sculpture, and More, illustrating Exodus 31:2-4,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, May 11, 2024), 62 pages.

“Camouflage in World War II, Norwegian Rosemåling, and More: Illustrating the Resourcefulness Principle of Judges 3:31, with the Eyewitness Epistemology of Acts 1:3,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 25, 2024), 14 pages.

“Jumping to Sloppy Conclusions about Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Leviticus 11:21-22,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle, Texas: May 21, 2023), 4 pages.

“Norwegian Telecommunications: From Norse King Håkon’s Mandated Signal Fires to International Radio Broadcasting, Illustrating Prophecy in Luke 12:3,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas: April 23, 2023), 12 pages.

“God’s Creation Sermon in Job Chapter 39: Learning from God’s Animals,” Biblical Creation on Solid Ground Series (Skandinavisk Teologisk Högskola, Uppsala, Sweden: April 14, 2023), 89 pages.

“Why Study Grass and Flowers? Learning from God’s Plants,” Biblical Creation on Solid Ground Series (Skandinavisk Teologisk Högskola, Uppsala, Sweden: April 14, 2023), 56 pages.

“Viking Skeletons Embarrass Carbon-14 Radiometric Dating,” Biblical Creation on Solid Ground Series (Skandinavisk Teologisk Högskola, Uppsala, Sweden: April 14, 2023), 34 pages.

“Olga the Wise, Joyful Queen of Russia, Prayer Warrior for Russian Christianity, illustrating Ephesians 3:20,” Europe’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: March 12, 2023), 4 pages.

“Vladimir the Holy, the Viking King who Chose to Take Russia East, Turning Russia to Christianity,” Europe’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: March 12, 2023), 7 pages.

“From Russia with Prayer (P.R.A.Y.I.N.G. is Bigger than You Think): Ephesians 3:20, Providential History, and More,” Europe’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: March 12, 2023), 41 pages.

“Jan Hus, of Husinec [“Goose-town”], Bohemia: The Goose-Quill is Mightier than the Sword!” Europe’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: March 12, 2023), 4 pages.

“Normans in the Holy Land, with Historical Highlights about Norwegian Viking Connections,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2023), 12 pages.

"A Doxological View of Grasses, with Special Attention to Matthew 6:28-30 and Luke 12:27-28," Creation Research Society Quarterly, 59 (2): 114-116 (fall 2022).

“Sankthansaften in Norway: Blending Providence and History, including the Pro-life Lesson from Luke 1:34-45”, Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, June 25, 2022), 5 pages.

“Family History and Grace: Applying Creation Theology to Individuals (Psalm 102:18),” 17th Annual Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference (Houston, Texas, March 8, 2022), 32 pages.

“Providential Migrations (and Acts 8:4): Families, Individuals, and the Gospel,” 17th Annual Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference (Houston, Texas, March 8, 2022), 51 pages.

“The Doxological Theology of ‘Filling the Earth’ (Genesis 9:1),” 17th Annual Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference (Houston, Texas, March 7, 2022), 56 pages.

“God Jul: Appreciating Micah 5:2 and John 1:1-14 via the Witness of Christmas Traditions in Norway, from Gudstjeneste to Lutefisk,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, November 28, 2021), 14 pages.

“Intercessory Prayer is Needed Now, Because American is Sinking into a Spiritual Sinkhole!,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 18, 2021), 7 pages.

“Lava Butte, Oregon: One Man’s History-making ‘Everesting’, Plus Another Man’s Life-changing Career Pivot,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 18, 2021), 5 pages.

“Steller’s Jay: A Lesson in Choosing What is Valuable,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 17, 2021), 9 pages.

“Birkbeiner and Norway’s Patriotic Skiing Legacy: Olympic Champions Echo Pre-Reformation Norse Birch-leggers,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 9 pages.

“Who Supplied the Food for the First Thanksgiving? (Illustrating the Evidentiary Apologetics of Acts 14:17),” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 14, 2020), 5 pages.

“Thanksgiving Thoughts about Separatist Settlers, Straw-man Sophistry, and Simian Science,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 14, 2020), 3 pages.

“Pilgrims, Perils, Providence, and the Mayflower’s Mandatory Mechanical Multi-tasking,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 14, 2020), 4 pages.

“Cataclysmically Power-Washed Out to Sea: Analyzing Svalbard Dinosaur Footprints and an Offshore Plateosaurus Burial in the Norwegian North Sea’s Snorre Oil Field Mudstone, Illustrating Genesis 7-8,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, September 28, 2019), 15 pages.

“The Case of the Missing Radiocarbon: Was the Great Heathen Army’s Diet Deficient in Carbon-14?” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, September 28, 2019), 14 pages.

“Somerled’s Scottish Descendant Champions the English Bible,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 7 pages.

“Bees [Apis spp.] Need to Know!” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 7 pages.

“Avian Navigation, Illustrated by Pigeons [Columba livia domestica] & Plovers [Pluvialis fulva]: Marvels of Migration and Messaging,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 9 pages.

“Providential Food:  Lefse, Lingonberries, Lutefisk, and More,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, March 24, 2019), 36 pages.

“God’s Heavenly Leikarringen, as Noted in Isaiah 40:22,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 29, 2018), 3 pages.

“Norwegians Take Skiing Seriously: Skiathlon Heroes Recall Norse ‘Birch-leg’ Skiers of Old, Advancing Norway’s Foreshadowing of the Protestant Reformation,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 25, 2018), 9 pages.

“Appealing to Caesar Involves More than ‘Church versus State’ Turf Wars:  Comparing Romans 13:1-7 to Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC” presented to the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Fort Worth, Texas, April 1, 2017; 14 pages).

“On the Christian Conversions of Olaf Tryggvason, Leif Eiriksson, and Other Vikings: From Valkyrie Battle-Chants to Angelic Choruses (with supplement on Norse and Germanic Mythology),” co-authored with John A. Eidsmoe, Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth: March 26, 2017), 21 pages.

“Norse and Germanic Mythology,” in World Religions and Cults: Moralistic, Mythical and Mysticism Religions, vol. 2 (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2016; Bodie Hodge & Roger Patterson, general eds.), pages 271-288.

“Why Teaching Biblical Creation Matters,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, November 6, 2015); 36 pages.

“Epistemology and Hermeneutics Applied to Genesis,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, November 7, 2015); 36 pages.

“Psalm 145:8-16, ‘The Case of the Missing Nûn, an Exegetical Study,” Dean Burgon Society Conference, Garland, Texas, July 22, 2015; 33 pages.

“A Bohemian Goose and a Saxon Swan,” presented at the Maranatha Biblical Ministries Conference, Hurst, Texas, June 13, 2015; 20 pages.

“How Viking History Opened the Door for the Protestant Reformation’s Demographics,, presented at the Maranatha Biblical Ministries Conference, Hurst, Texas, June 13, 2015; 22 pages.

“Collateral Damages from Disbelieving Adam’s Authenticity and the Biogenetic History of Genesis: A Judgmental Analysis” presented to the International Society of Christian Apologetics Conference (Plano, Texas, April 5, 2013; 148 pages).

“Deism Then and Now, A Comparative Review (Or, ‘There and Back Again’)” presented to the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Fort Worth, Texas, March 9, 2012; 46 pages).

“How Should We Then Reply, When Scoffing Critics Claim that the Biblical God Is ‘Impersonal,’ and When Scoffing Critics Claim that Human Suffering Shows that God Is ‘Not Good Enough’?” presented at Master’s International School of Divinity Seminar on Biblical Inspiration, Translation, & Hermeneutics (Grapevine, Texas, July 3, 2013; keynote presentation, 38 pages).

“The Religion-and-Science Connection Between Pseudônumos and Pseudomarturia: How Special Revelation Describes the Limitations of General Revelation, with Epistemological Analysis of the Problem of ‘False Witnesses’ who Promote ‘Science Falsely So-called’” presented at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dallas, Texas, March 27, 2009; 83 pages).

“Recognizing Truth in Asia, Africa, and Europe, from Abraham to Zaphenathpa’aneah: Selected Studies in the History of Biblical Epistemology” presented at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Fort Worth, Texas, March 25, 2006; 106 pages).

“Ethics for Acadians and Orcadians: How Should We Then React When our Neighbors are Having a Civil War? Comparing the 17th Century Civil War in French Acadia with 9th Century Trans-national Conflicts in the Orkney Islands” presented at the 58th Annual Evangelical Theological Society Conference (Washington, D.C., November 15, 2006; 15 pages).

“Did the ‘Good Samaritan’ Doctrine Justify How the Massachusetts Puritans Provided Military Aid during the ‘ragin’ Cajun’ French Civil War of the 1640s?” presented to the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dallas, Texas, March 13, 2004; 46 pages).

“Defining Evangelicalism by the Evangel, Illustrated at Patmos by Themes in Christ’s Epistles to Seven Congregations in Asia” presented at the 53rd Annual Evangelical Theological Society Conference (Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 16, 2001; 19 pages).

“Epistemological Insights from Daniel 5:7-23—Belshazzar’s Willful Rejection of Extra-Biblical Revelation, Illustrated by Belshazzar’s Exclusion of Babylon’s ‘Magicians’” presented at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dallas, Texas, March 21, 2003; 61 pages).

“How has the Reburial of Viking King Harald Bluetooth’s Father Provided an Inerrantist Solution to Abraham’s Supposedly ‘Missing’ 60 Years? (in Acts 7:4)” presented at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dallas, Texas, March 1, 2002; 19 pages).

“Jude’s Exhortation regarding Authority, Grace, and Faith: The Soteriological Relevance of Doxological Reverence” presented at the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dallas, Texas, March 1998; 81 pages). 


Ecology / Conservation Science / Environmental Regulation

“Celebrating Sunflowers: Heliotropism and Providential Phenology, with Insights from Psalm 19:6 and James 1:10-11,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, October 25, 2024), 3 pages.

“The Lesser Light Rules the Night (Genesis 1:16): Lunar Photoperiodicity and Lunar Orbit Gravitational Governance,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, October 25, 2024), 3 pages.

“Birds of Grand Canyon, an Introduction, Illustrating Job 38:25-27,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Flower Mound, TX: September 12, 2024), 15 pages.

“Mama Roadrunner Dueling with a Diamondback Rattlesnake in the Desert, Illustrating Psalm 69:22,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Flower Mound, TX: September 12, 2024), 6 pages.

“Grand Canyon’s Weak-appearing Mouse (Onychomys torridus) that Preys upon Mighty Predators including Arizona Bark Scorpions, Venomous Centipedes, and Tarantulas, Illustrating 1st Corinthians 1:27b,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Flower Mound, TX: September 12, 2024), 3 pages.

“Introduction to Grand Canyon's Wildlife”, in Grand Canyon Expedition Field Guide: Whitmore Wash to Lake Mead (San Antonio, TX: Landmark Events, 2024; Justin Turley, ed.), pages 4-7 & 21-34.

“Moaning Noises and Tricky Ghosts, Illustrating Isaiah 38:14 with Micah 1:8,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 25, 2024), 3 pages.

“Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) in the Inner Hebrides, a Biogeographical Study Comparing the Isles of Staffa and Lunga,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, February 18, 2024), 8 pages.

“Wings of the Western Isles, a Biogeographical Study of Seagulls, Corvids, Accipiters, and More,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, February 18, 2024), 27 pages.

“Bird Nest Lessons: Creation Perspectives in Avian Ecology,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 60 (3): 208-214 (winter 2024).

“Norsk Post: Norway’s Heritage, Illustrated in Philatelic Themes and Wildlife Postage Artwork,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, January 20, 2024), 8 pages.

“Scotland’s Corncrake (Crex crex) and White-tailed Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), a Creation Ecology Perspective,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, November 19, 2023), 10 pages.

“Scotland’s Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) and Migratory Phenology, a Creation Ecology Perspective,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, November 19, 2023), 6 pages.

“Scotland’s Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) and Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), a Creation Ecology Perspective,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, November 19, 2023), 5 pages.

“Scotland’s Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) and Estuarial Habitat, a Creation Ecology Perspective,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, November 19, 2023), 9 pages.

“Scotland’s Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) and Coast-water Fish Farming, a Creation Ecology Perspective,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, November 19, 2023), 17 pages.

“Scotland’s Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) and Wet Woods Habitat, a Creation Ecology Perspective,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Plano, Texas, November 19, 2023), 9 pages.

“Hebrides Creature Feature: Female Sea Turtles Cry Salty, Gooey Tears,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, September 24, 2023), 3 pages.

"Rapid Relay of Sound Vibration Alarms: Headbanging Termites!” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 60 (1): 56-59 (summer 2023).

“Spring Shows God’s Goodness: Learning from God’s Plants and Animals,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle, Texas: May 21, 2023), 41 pages.

“Sunflowers: Sunlight-facing Seed Factories,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle, Texas: May 21, 2023), 5 pages.

“Termite Mounds, Vibrating Grounds, and Headbanging Sounds,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 20, 2023), 8 pages.

“Alarming Relay of Sound Vibrations: Headbanging Termites, Illustrating 1st Corinthians 14:8,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas: April 23, 2023), 7 pages.

"Norwegian Salmon Farming, in the News Again, with Thanksgiving Perspectives from Acts 14:17 and Matthew 7:9-11," Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, November 27, 2022), 18 pages.

“Rock Wrens: Living Life on the Rock,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 59 (1):57 (summer 2022).

“Researching ‘Sea-Paths’ Near Antarctica and in Psalm 8:8—Are Sea Creatures Actively or Passively ‘Passing Through’ Ocean Currents?” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 58 (4): 273-278 (spring 2022).

“Western Tanager [Piranga ludoviciani]: Red and Yellow, Black and White,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, May 21, 2022), 6 pages.

“Barn Swallows [Hirunda rustica]: Homesick for the ‘Lilla Svala’ of ‘Hälsa dem Därhemma’ Memory,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, May 21, 2022), 3 pages.

“Nordic Wildlife Series: Animals in Norwegian Heraldry,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24, 2022), 16 pages.

“Ravin’ about Corvids: Something to Crow about!,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24, 2022), 8 pages.

“Doxological Guidance from the Eurasian Lynx [Felis lynx],” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24, 2022), 8 pages.

“Polar Bears [Ursus maritimus]: Rough, Tough, and Very Cool!”, Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24, 2022), 10 pages.

“White-tailed Eagle [Haliaeetus albicilla] and Corncrake [Crex crex]: Birdwatching in the Scottish Hebrides, Part 1,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Sherman, Texas, March 20, 2022), 10 pages.

“Scotch Crow [Corvus cornix]: Birdwatching in the Scottish Hebrides, Part 2,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Sherman, Texas, March 20, 2022), 7 pages.

“Long-tailed Duck [Clangula hyemalis]: Birdwatching in the Scottish Hebrides, Part 3,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Sherman, Texas, March 20, 2022), 5 pages.

“Black-headed Gulls [Larus ridibundus] and Great Black-backed Gulls [Larus marinus]: Birdwatching in the Scottish Hebrides, Part 4,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Sherman, Texas, March 20, 2022), 5 pages.

“Birdwatching at Staffa, Near Iona – Puffins [Fratercula arctica], Shags [Gulosus aristotelis], and Herring Gulls [Larus argentatus]: Birdwatching in the Scottish Hebrides, Part 5,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Sherman, Texas, March 20, 2022), 12 pages.

“God Values Variety: Animals and Habitats Show God’s Glory,” 17th Annual Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference (Houston, Texas, March 7, 2022), 55 pages.

“Providential Programming in Salmon Life Cycles: Displaying Doxological Teleology in Creation Ecology,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, October 23, 2021), 15 pages.

“’Paths of the Seas’: Psalm 8:8 and Creationist Oceanography, Matthew Maury’s Research Supplemented by Swedes and Seals,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 18, 2021), 8 pages.

“Hummingbirds See Colors Over (Beyond) the Rainbow,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 17, 2021), 6 pages.

“Cherry Picking, Nutrition, and Providential Phenology,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, September 17, 2021), 6 pages.

“Doxological Biodiversity in Job Chapter 39: God’s Wisdom and Providence as the Caring Creator, Exhibited in the Creation Ecology of Wildlife Pairs,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 57 (4): 286-291 (spring 2021).

“Norwegians Get Fired Up in Midsummer, for Sankthansaften,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, June 26, 2021), 4 pages.

“White-throated Dipper [Cinclus cinclus], Moose [Alces alces], Codfish [Gadus morhua], and More: Appreciating Norway’s Wildlife Heritage,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 15 pages.

“Pinniped Oceanography: Swedes Equip Seals to Chart ‘Paths of the Seas’ (Psalm 8:8),” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 5 pages.

“Blue Whales Rap, While Other Whales Sing,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 14 pages.

“Whinchat X Redstart = ‘Redchat’: Avian Hybrid Discovery in Norway,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 5 pages.

“Barn Swallows [Hirunda rustica], a Nostalgic Reminder of Home,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 3 pages.

“Hanseatic Herring, Copper, and Norway’s Early Economy,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 34 pages.

“Shetland Coastguards and Mobbing Corvids [Perisoreus infaustus, Aphelocoma coeruulescens, Aphelocoma woodhouseii, et al.]: Flying to the Rescue!” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 15, 2021), 3 pages.

“Appreciating Creation Ecology at Lava Butte, as Mule Deer Enjoy Some Peace and Quiet,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 21, 2020), 6 pages.

“Alpine Trek Along the Appalachian Trail,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 21, 2020), 14 pages.

“Hawk and Eagle, Fitted to Fly High,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 21, 2020), 3 pages

“Strangers and Pilgrims, and the Thanksgiving Turkey,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 14, 2020), 6 pages.

“Salmon Skin is Healthier If Allowed Brackish Water Transition,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 4 pages.

“Harbor Seals: Pinnipeds with Providential Bioengineering,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 9 pages.

“European Dipper, Providentially Equipped to Hunt: Flying, Rowing, and Walking Underwater,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 5 pages.

“Remembering Norway’s Past Pandemic: Today’s Coronavirus Pales as Not-So-Dangerous, Compared to the Historic Black Death Plague,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 4 pages.

“Delayed Post-Flood Forestation during the Early Ice Age,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 56 (3): 185-186 (winter 2020).

“A Diet of Jackdaws and Ravens,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 7, 2020), 7 pages.

“Birdwatching in Iceland, with Extra Appreciation for a Bohemian Goose and a Saxon Swan,” America’s Providential Heritage Series (Cross Timbers Institute, Argyle: October 7, 2020), 20 pages.

“Littoral Treasures of Pink Gold, Illustrating Psalm 107:23-24: Great Northern Prawn [Pandalus borealis], Baltic Prawn [Palaemon adspersus], and Brown Shrimp [Crangon crangon],” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, September 28, 2019), 15 pages.

“Hibernal Phenology Solutions: How Bugs and Spiders Adjust to Winter Weather, Answering Psalm 147:17,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, September 28, 2019), 11 pages.

“Worm-wolfing Woodcocks in Wet Woods: Scolopax rusticola, Looking like Skinny-legged Shorebirds, Find Forest-floor Food,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 9 pages.

“Remembering Mount St. Helens After 39 Years: Exhibiting Post-Eruption Ecosystem Recovery,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 4 pages.

“Red Grouse [Lagopus lagopus scotica] on Scottish Roadway: A Lesson for Conservation Science and Ptarmigan Preservation,” Scottish Heritage Series (Scottish Society of Dallas, Garland, Texas, May 19, 2019), 5 pages.

“Red Grouse [Lagopus lagopus scotica]: Moorfowl is Fair, in Highland Heather,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 5 pages.

“Making a Joyful Noise in Estonia’s Tallinn: Common Swifts [Apus apus] Winging in Acrobatic Murmurations,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 12 pages.

“Palaces are Known for Both Tattletales and Wagtails [Motacilla alba],” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 6 pages.

“Nøtteskrike [Garrulus glandarius]: ‘Jay of the Oaks’ Observed in Nordic Woods,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 28, 2019), 7 pages.

“Norwegian Wildlife, from Coastal Seawaters to Boreal Montane Forests: Illustrating Psalm 104 with Norwegian Lobsters [Nephrops norvegicus], Cod, Caribou, Ørns, Orcas, and More,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, March 24, 2019), 217 pages.

“Whinchat, Redstart, and Redchat: Debunking the ‘Speciation’ Myth Again,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 24, 2019), 7 pages.

“Arctic Arthropods are Really Cool: How Insects and Spiders Escape Freezing to Death in Winter, Showing How Providential Bioengineering Equips Bugs for Phenological Success,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 24, 2019), 11 pages.

“Northern Prawns, Baltic Prawns, and Brown Shrimp, Illustrating Genesis 1:22 (including Johan Hjort’s Actuarial Biology Research on Pandalus borealis),” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 24, 2019), 15 pages.

“Something Fishy about Radiocarbon-Dating Viking Bones,” Creation Research Society Quarterly,  54 (3): 213-216 (winter 2018).

“Hvitkinngås (Barnacle Goose) Biogeography: What’s Good for the White-Cheek Goose [Branta leucopsis] May Be Relocating (Away from Breeding Grounds Too Close to a H-Bomb Testing Site!),” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, November 24, 2018), 9 pages.

“Cetaceans’ Submarine Songfests: Norwegians and Americans Scrutinize Saltwater Serenades by Humpbacks, Bowheads, and Blue Whales,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 29, 2018), 14 pages.

“Harbor Seals: Swimming, Diving, Guided by Super-Sensitive Whiskers, Illustrating Psalm 107:23-24, including Viking History Perspectives regarding Burnt Njál’s Saga,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 29, 2018), 8 pages.

“Eagle-Owls, Cormorants, Ducks, Geese, Seagulls, and Crows: Providing Stuffing for Viking Pillows,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 29, 2018), 23 pages.

“Something Fishy in the Balance, Illustrating Proverbs 20:23,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 25, 2018), 9 pages.

“Birds of Prey in Norway, with illustrations of Job 39:26-27,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, November 26, 2017), 98 pages.

“Securing Nests and Nestlings from Parasites and Predators, in Norway and Beyond,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, November 26, 2017), 9 pages.

“Amazing Earthworms: Norway’s Underground Heroes,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 20, 2017), 6 pages.

“Earthworms in Norway: Truth is Strange than Fiction!”, Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth: March 26, 2017), 5 pages.

“Woodchucks, Rockchucks, and a Shadowy Holiday,” Nordic Legacy Series (Fort Worth: Norwegian Society of Texas, February 28, 2016), 11 pages.

“Did Norwegian Rats Shut Down the Black Death?” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth: February 28, 2016), 20 pages.

“Genesis, Animals, and the Environment,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, November 7, 2015), 45 pages.

“Trumpeting a Wildlife Conservation Comeback,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, November 6, 2015), 9 pages.

“How Can a Mechanical ‘Cardinal’ Make Selections?,” Tyndale Heritage Lecture Series (Tyndale Theological Seminary, Hurst, Texas, November 7, 2015), 6 pages.

“Nordic Salmon Farming: Responding to the Genesis Mandate,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth: April 26, 2015), 65 pages.

“Birdwatching in Iceland: Coastal Birds in the Summer,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Dallas: September 20, 2015), 13 pages.

“An Oceanographer’s Insight, for Researching and Analyzing Oceanic and Littoral Ecosystem Dynamics, Guided by ‘High-Definition’ Biblical Philology,” presented at the Creation Research Society Conference, Dallas, Texas, July 31, 2015; 72 pages.

“How Evolutionist Ideas (‘Science Falsely So-Called’) Retarded the Scientific Study of Biodiversity and Ecology” presented to the International Society of Christian Apologetics Conference (Plano, Texas, April 5, 2013; 12 pages).

“Providential Planting: The Pinyon Jay,” Creation Ex Nihilo, 19 (3): 24-25 (summer 1997).

“Malachite Mountain Majesty,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 34 (1): 4 (summer 1997).

“A Year-to-Date Birding Report,” Woods Wings Water, 35 (3):1-2 (summer 1996).

“Delineating Wetlands: Hydrophilic Plants, Hydric Soils, and Wetland Hydrology,” Proceedings of the Wetlands Scientists 16th Annual Meeting (Boston, Massachusetts, summer 1995).

Introduction to Environmental Studies (Dallas: NWQD Press & LeTourneau University, 1995), textbook on Ecology, Conservation Policy, and Environmental Law, used as undergraduate textbook for ecology courses during the late AD1990s at LeTourneau University and at Dallas Christian College).

“Bogged Down Trying to Define Federal Wetlands,” co-authored with William Lee Logan III & Marshall J. Horton, Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 2:481-513 (spring 1996), cited in Kirkorowicz v. California Coastal Commission, 83 Cal. App. 4th 980, 100 Cal. Rptr. 124, 31 Envtl. L. Rep. 20,168 (Cal. App. [4th Dist.] 2000), at footnote 9.

“Can ELVIS [Economic Land Value Impact Statement] Resolve our Wetland Definition Quagmire?” co-authored with William Lee Logan III & Marshall J. Horton, State Bar of Texas Environmental Law Journal, 27 (2): 60-73 (fall 1996).

“How an Uncodified Appropriations Act has Blocked Some Constitutional Challenges to the Process of Wetland Delineation,” co-authored with William L. Logan III, University of Baltimore Journal of Environmental Law, 182-207 (1994).

“Environmental Issues in Real Estate Transactions,” in Real Estate Law: Advanced Issues and Answers (Dallas, Texas: NBI, 2007), pages 62-119.

“Anadromous Fish ‘that Swam with Dinosaurs’ Neither Extinct Nor Extirpated,” Creation Research Society Quarterly, 51 (3): 207-208 (winter 2015).

“Thigmomorphogenesis: The Induction of Callose Formation and Ethylene [Production] by Mechanical Perturbation in Bean Stems,” Physiologia Plantarum, 64 (2): 271-279 (June 1985), co-authored with Mordecai J. Jaffe, Moshe Huberman, & Frank W. Telewski.

 

Selected Legal Publications

"School Law Landmark: Christian Education, Promoting Public Literacy, is Not a New Idea," Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, November 17, 2024), 8 pages.

"Fair Labor Standards Act Classification Controversies, A.D.2024: Adjusting to the Dynamic Regulatory Arena of Wage and Hour Controversies,” Strategies for Preventing and Addressing Wage and Hour Violations (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2024), 33 pages.

"Case Law Updates and Recent Trends, A.D.2024: Adjusting to the Dynamic Regulatory Arena of Wage and Hour Controversies,” Strategies for Preventing and Addressing Wage and Hour Violations (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2024), 59 pages.

"Labor & Employment Law: Is Your Employee Handbook Ready for Today’s World?”, Employee Handbooks 2023 Wrap-up (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2023), pages 138-208.

"Legal Ethics for Employment Law Attorneys: Professionally Prudent Jurisprudence”, Employee Handbooks 2023 Wrap-up (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2023), pages 210-381.

"Texas Employment Law Update A.D.2022: Adjusting to the Changing Boundaries of Workplace Rights and Responsibilities,', Mini Law School for Texas Human Resources Professionals (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2022), pages 12-59.

“Using Employee Handbooks: Anticipating and Managing Risks, with Sample Policies,” Oklahoma Human Resource Law Boot Camp 2022 (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2022), pages 52-123.

“Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace,” Oklahoma Human Resource Law Boot Camp 2022 (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2022), pages 125-184.

“Employee Relations Problem-Solving: Investigations, Disciplinary Actions, Safety, etc.,” Oklahoma Human Resource Law Boot Camp 2022 (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2022), pages 186-279.

“Employee Handbook Policies: For Better or for Worse,” in Texas Human Resource Law 2022 (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2022), pages 56-128.

“Texas Workplace Behavior and Privacy Issues: Balancing Employee Rights and Responsibilities,” in Texas Human Resource Law 2022 (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2022), pages 245-366.

“Legal Restrictions Finally Removed: Norway Permits Traditional Syttende Mai Parades in A.D.2022,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, May 21, 2022), 15 pages.

“Counties and Municipalities of Norway, Effective January 1st of A.D.2020, pursuant to Storting Legislation on June 8th of A,D,2017, with Attention to Local Jurisdictions’ Armorial Heraldry,” Nordic Legacy Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, April 24, 2022), 48 pages.

“Syttende Mai (A.D.2020) Restrained in Norway as ‘Virtual’ Holiday; Likewise, for Leif Eiriksson Day,” Leif Eiriksson Rekefest Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, October 10, 2020), 6 pages.

Nonprofit Board Governance and Liability 2019 (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2019), 175 pages.

“Ethical Issues in Employment Law” in Advanced Employment Law 2017 (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2017), chapter 4, 145 pages.

“Federal Laws, State Laws, Regulatory, Case Law” in Nonprofit Board Governance, Risks, and Liability (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2017), chapter 7, 157 pages.

“Legal Ethics: Confidentiality, Conflicts of Interest, and More” in Nonprofit Board Governance, Risks, and Liability (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2017), chapter 8 (100 pages).

“A Historical Overview of Church-State ‘Separation’ in America” presented to the Southwest Regional Conference of the Evangelical Theological Society (Fort Worth, Texas, April 1, 2017; 62 pages, with Amicus Brief supplement on Pidgeon v. Turner.

“Clarifying Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules 30, 31, and 33: Solidifying the New ‘Proportionality’ Discovery Norm,” in Applying the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2015), pages 89-133.

“Failures to Give Proper Rule 37 Responses: Producing Discovery Documents and Permitting Inspections,” in Applying the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2015), pages 149-209.

“Ethical Standards and Practices:  Professionalism Applied to Federal Litigation Contexts,” in Applying the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute, 2015), pages 231-345.

“Appreciating 200 Years of the Norwegian Constitution of A.D.1814,” Syttende Mai Lecture Series (Norwegian Society of Texas, Arlington, Texas, May 17, 2014), 5 pages.

“The Courts Speak: The Rules of Law and (Some) Judicial Analysis,” in Everything You Don’t Know about E-Discovery (Portland, Maine: NBI, 2013), pages 1-78.

“A Judge’s Perspective on Electronic Discovery: Lessons for Litigators,” in Everything You Don’t Know about E-Discovery (Portland, Maine: NBI, 2013), pages 79-138.

“Post-Judgment Collection,” in Advanced Collection Strategies (Denver, Colorado: NBI, 2010), pages 1-239.

“How Administrative Law Issues Complicate the Bankruptcy Law Process,” State Bar of Texas, 1st Annual International Bankruptcy Law Seminar (Paris, France, spring 2004; 232 pages)

 “Litigating Fraudulent Transfers and Other Avoidance Actions,” State Bar of Texas, 2nd Annual International Bankruptcy Law Seminar (Florence and Rome, Italy, March 8-16, 2005; 35 pages).

 “Litigating Bankruptcy Discharge Denials under 11 U.S.C. § 727 (Especially as Relevant to Legal Ethics),” presented to the State Bar of Texas: 20th Annual Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Law Seminar (Houston, Texas, September 23-24, 2004; 28 pages).

“Unconscionability and the Federal Chancellors: A Survey of U.C.C. Section 2-302 Interpretations in the Federal Circuits during the early 1980s,” Simon Greenleaf Law Review, 5 (1): 115-184 (1985).

How Texas Addresses Administrative Law Issues in School Law Contexts, co-authored with Robert C. Prather, Sr. (Eau Claire, Wisconsin: National Business Institute, 2003), pages 1-129 & 139-143 and 163-166 & 348-380 and 412-415.

“Environmental Claims and the Bankruptcy Process: Claims Advocacy for Private Environmental Torts—Balancing Environmental Restitution Policy with the Debtor’s Fresh Start,” Federal Bar Association Bankruptcy Section, Bankruptcy Briefs, 3 (2): 1, 5-10 (spring 1993), co-authored with William Lee Logan III.

 “Avoiding Ethical Tangles in Collections,” in Collection Law from Start to Finish (Dallas, Texas: NBI, 2010), pages 177-207.

“Ethical Considerations for Employment Law Practitioners,” in Employment Laws Made Simple (Dallas, Texas: NBI, 2012), pages 89-179.

“The Impact of Bankruptcy on Collections,” in Collection Law from Start to Finish (Dallas, Texas: NBI, 2010), pages 85-176.

 “Caveat Debtor: Three New Exceptions to Discharge,” Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, pages 9-13 (August 1996).

“Preservation and Spoliation of Electronically Stored Information: Beware! (Applying Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 37 to Electronically Stored Information),” in Electronic Discovery Under the Proposed Amendments to FRCP (Eau Clair, Wisconsin: National Business Institute, 2015), pages 219-261.

“Ethical Challenges in Electronic Discovery:  Beware! (Litigating with Electronically Stored Information Can Sometimes Be Illegal),” in Electronic Discovery Under the Proposed Amendments to FRCP (Eau Clair, Wisconsin: National Business Institute, 2015), pages 329-426.