Happy Reformation Day! On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the Castle Church doors in Wittenberg, Germany, unknowingly launching the Protestant Reformation and recovering precious truths about the Gospel. The 95 Theses were arguments against the medieval church's practice of selling indulgences, documents which freed one or one's family members from …
Month: October 2008
Canada election map
Elections Canada has a nice map showing the results of the October 14th national election for the House of Commons: This is more colorful than the red-blue map that we will see on election night here in the US (which I fear will have too much blue on it this year). Here are the Canadian …
100
My grandmother, on my mother's side, lived to be 100. My wife's grandmother, on her father's side, turned 100 yesterday. I guess it looks good for women in my family. Yahoo had a story yesterday: 4 Surprising signs you'll live a long time. Here they are: Don't drink pop. All that sugar either makes you …
Dinosaur footprints part 3
I wrote about dinosaur footprints a few weeks ago here and here. I had recently attended a young-Earth creation seminar where the speaker used very questionable examples of "human" footprints in Permian and Cretaceous rocks as evidence that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Many of these "human" footprints turn out to be forgeries. A scientist can …
The Environmental Case for John McCain
The attacks against John McCain by some environmental groups (such as the Sierra Club) are unfair. McCain has a well-integrated energy and environmental policy, that reflects his years of environmental leadership, not only in the Republican Party, but in the senate as a whole. From Republicans for Environmental Protection: The Environmental Case for John McCain …
Xe Bang Fai River Cave, Laos
Take a look at the pictures of this cave at the National Geographic site. HT: Geology.com News Grace and Peace
Ice-free Arctic
I was watching CNN today (not something I normally do; I was standing in a line at the post office) and the story was about record melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The prediction was that the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer within five years. And I was reading Geology.com News …
