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 …
Cicada molting
A cicada molting, from the Wikipedia Picture of the Day archive. Grace and Peace
Saturn, rings, and moons
From today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Saturn, its rings edge-on, and four moons: Grace and Peace
Why Evangelicals and other Christians should not vote for Obama
Read Obama's Abortion Extremism, by Robert George. The press reports that many pro-life people say they will be voting for Obama. The Obama message is that his social programs will reduce the need for abortions. In reality, Obama is the most pro-abortion senator, and the most pro-abortion presidential candidate, we have ever had, and all …
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Rub’ al Khali
An image of sand dunes and interdune salt flats from Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula. This vast sandy desert covers large parts of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. This image was on NASA's Image of the Day Gallery for October 20, 2008. Take a look at …
Clean coal
The phrase "clean coal" came up in all three presidential debates. So what is clean coal? The Christian Science Monitor has a brief article describing the concept. The concern now, of course, isn't just that burning coal releases acid-rain causing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, or that burning coal is a major source of mercury …
More Pickens
Pickens plan video -- a plan to use natural gas for transportation, wind power for electricity generation, and to reduce the U.S. expenditures for imported petroleum by hundreds of billions of dollars per year. HT: Geology News Grace and Peace
Granite tables and countertops
McDonalds restaurants in Romania are superior to McDonalds in the U.S.A. The food is better, the service is better, they ask which Happy Meal toy your child wants, and... the tables are made out of beautiful SOLID GRANITE! If it weren't for "Super Size Me," these tables would be enough to make any geologist eat …
Enceladus close up
A dramatic image of Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn, taken by the Cassini probe last week: The description from Astronomy Picture of the Day, October 14, 2008: Explanation: What creates the unusual tiger stripes on Saturn's moon Enceladus? No one is sure. To help find out, scientists programmed the robotic Cassini spacecraft to dive …
Constipated astronauts?
LiveScience.com: Space Station Toilet Breaks Again.
More ridiculousness of Religulous
Stand to Reason Blog has another review of "Religulous." Here are a few excerpts from Religulous is Ridiculous: Watching Bill Maher's supposed expose of the irrationality of religion "Religulous" is like being hit over the head with a club for 90 minutes. Not even a baseball bat. A club. Because it's so atrociously dull, heavy-handed, …
More atheist drivel: Religulous
The title of the movie "Religulous," starring comedian Bill Maher, is a combination of "Religious" and "Ridiculous." Like most of the bitter propaganda coming out of the atheist camp in the past few years, this movie will reinforce the anti-Christian attitudes among the atheists and their allies, but the content of the film is intellectually indefensible. Here …
Montana snow!
We traveled to Billings, Montana for the weekend. It started snowing Thursday night as we were driving there, and didn't stop until some time Sunday, for a total of 22 inches (56 cm). We were able to build snow men, have a snow ball fight, make a snow maze in the park, and go cross-country …
Rays on Mercury
The NASA MESSENGER probe flew by Mercury for the second time on October 6th. It flew by Mercury earlier this year, will fly by one more time in 2009, and will enter orbit around the planet in 2011. Here's an image taken yesterday: Some parts of Mercury's surface revealed in this have never been photographed …
