This item was originally posted in December 2006. In honor of Earth Day, it is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my best blog entries. The International Council on Biblical Inerrancy has produced a document called The …
Continue reading Earth Day 2008 — Stewardship of the Environment
This item was originally posted for Earth Day, 2006 (Earth Day is held on April 22nd). It is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have more people reading The GeoChristian now than I did then, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries. We all seem to …
Continue reading Earth Day 2008 — Christian Environmentalism
Earth Day is coming on April 22nd. Here's a quote to get us thinking Biblically about our stewardship of the Earth: "There is one ultimate owner in the universe, God. All others are trustees." --John Piper, Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, p. 89 Grace and Peace
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Click on the picture to go to the site. This little version does not do the picture justice. I think it is one of the best astronomy landscapes that has appeared on APOD in all its years. The APOD description: This sky is protected. Yesterday marked the 50 year …
From yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic. These martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in …
I remember hearing it too, back in the 1970s: "We're heading into another ice age." Today we hear: "Why should we believe the climate scientists when they predict global warming? Back in the 1970s, they predicted the Earth's climate was going to get much colder." But was "global cooling" really the consensus back in the …
Continue reading What scientists were really saying about “global cooling” in the 1970s
If I could pass on just one thing about Christianity and the gospel to my children, students at BCA, and church, it would be this: The gospel is all about Jesus Christ and what he has done for us in his incarnation, life, death and resurrection; not about what we do for him. You wouldn't …
The burning of petroleum (and other fossil fuels) is a primary contributor to the increase of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere. Burning of plant material, on the other hand, does not increase the concentration of CO2, because the carbon in the plant came from the atmosphere in the first place, through the process of photosynthesis. …
From the Wikipedia Picture of the Day for April 4th: This false-color mosaic showing compositional variations in the geology of the Moon was constructed from a series of 53 images taken through three spectral filters by the imaging system of the Galileo spacecraft. Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval …
Kilauea, one of five shield volcanoes on the island of Hawaii, has been erupting continuously since 1983. Its eruption during the past month (March 2008) included the first explosive eruption at Kilauea since 1924. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory offers spectacular images: Halemaumau crater, at the summit of Kilauea Lava streams into the ocean, making …
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