The quote in my previous post was a positive one about the need to care for nature. Here's a silly quote from a well-meaning environmentalist perspective: The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration. --- Michael W. Fox, Vice President, Humane Society of the United States No, an …
Month: January 2008
Presidential quote on the environment
What American president said the following? “Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our …
Is Your Church Green?
World on the Web (World Magazine) asks Is Your Church Green? They aren't asking if your church is showing "An Inconvenient Truth" or if your pastor is preaching a ten-week series on global warming. The primary focus of the article is about evaluating our church buildings in terms of five environmental factors: sustainable site development …
27 Storms — hurricanes of 2005
I'm beginning a unit on weather and climate in high school Earth Science tomorrow, and am scouring Google videos for movies depicting weather patterns from space. One excellent video I came across is 27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta, which shows relationships between ocean surface temperatures and storm tracks. It was produced by NASA and NOAA, …
White Horse Inn 2008
The White Horse Inn weekly radio program has begun a year-long series on "Christless Christianity." I listened to the program on Joel Osteen, author of the best-selling "Christian" book Your Best Life Now last night and just cringed at the distortions of the gospel that he proclaims. If you want Christ-centered Christianity that focuses rightly …
Planet Earth — Caves
Living in Romania, I didn't see the "Planet Earth" series on television. It may have been on TV here, but if so I missed it. I am doing a unit on groundwater in Earth science, and was looking for video clips to show in class. I found the introductory scene of the Planet Earth episode …
Presidential science debate?
The editorial column of the February 2008 issue of Scientific American includes a call for the presidential candidates to have a debate over issues of science and technology. Consider this partial list of issues that the next president of the U.S. will need to address: reducing greenhouse gas emissions; ensuring freshwater supplies; encouraging reliance on …
Pollution and the Death of Man
I recently finished re-reading Pollution and the Death of Man by Francis Schaeffer. If you read only one book on why Christians should care about nature, this is the book. It is short, and fairly easy reading (by Schaeffer standards). It is not a book about "50 ways to be green;" rather it lays the …
Asexual Reproduction
Gene Edward Veith (Cranach) has a post on generating human embryos from human skin cells. The ability to generate stem cells from skin cells was a promising medical breakthrough that bypasses the serious ethical concerns that are associated with embryonic stem cell research; the ability to create an entire human being brings all kinds of …
The Christian global warming guy
The former head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scientific assessment team is John Houghton, a physicist who has been studying carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for forty years. He has a better understanding of the science of atmospheric CO2 than just about anyone, so we should pay attention to what he says. …
First new images of Mercury
MESSENGER has completed its first fly-by of the planet Mercury, and is transmitting data back to Earth. NASA has released its first image from this encounter, and more are coming. This image includes areas that have never been seen in detail before. Image from messenger.jhuapl.edu. Astronomy Picture of the Day for 1/16/08. Wikipedia article: MESSENGER. …
Missing images
On September 1, 2007, I moved this blog from The Earth is Not Flat! to The GeoChristian. I have now deleted the old blog, but most of my entries created before 9/1/07 still have links to images at the old site. Which means that if you go to any of my older blog posts, there …
Messenger to Mercury
The planet Mercury is the least-well known body in the inner solar system. The only fly-by mission until now was Mariner 10, which flew by Mercury three times in 1974-1975 (and each time it passed it took pictures of the same part of the planet). We will be learning much more about Mercury in the …
Four great blogs
Don, at The Evangelical Ecologist named The GeoChristian as one of five blogs that minister to him the most. Thanks. Here are four blogs that I am regularly blessed, challenged, encouraged, and taught by: Be Bold, Be Gentle -- "Christian encouragement for men." Glenn has a heart for teaching within the body of Christ, for …
Medieval Norwegian tech support
Ever have problems opening a file? Ever worried about losing data? Watch this video. Grace and Peace
Christmas tree recycling, Romanian style
This picture shows recycling on two levels. First, some enterprising person stole the manhole cover---a common problem here in Romania---and likely took it to a recycling center to sell as scrap iron. That leaves those of us who drive with a problem: a deep hole in the middle of a narrow street. The second type …
Getting the gospel right
I say it over and over in many different contexts: The gospel is all about what God has done for us in Christ, not about what we do for him. Michael Spencer (the Internet Monk) has a great post: Losing the Treasure of a Christ-Centered Assurance of Salvation. He writes in response to a Christianity …
“I looked at the Christian community and saw ugliness”
A story from Pollution and the Death of Man, by Francis Schaeffer: Some years ago I was lecturing in a certain Christian school. Just across a ravine from the school there was what they called a "hippie community." On the far side of the ravine one saw trees and some farms. Here, I was told, …
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The price of oil
Geology.com has a link to a prediction (The coming oil crash) that the price of crude oil will plunge down to $30 a barrel. The current high prices have sparked a good amount of exploration, which should lead to a greater supply, which should lead to lower prices. Others point to instability in the oil-producing …
Time Magazine — Top 10 scientific discoveries for 2007
Time magazine's top ten science stories for 2007 include: #1 -- Stem cell breakthrough. It looks like we can now do everything from a person's own skin cells; there is no medical need for research with embryonic stem cells. As pro-life advocates have been saying all along, therapies developed from a person's own cells are …
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