There are about a dozen blogs that I read on an almost daily basis. One of them is Internet Monk, by Michael Spenser. Michael was interviewed for the November/December 2008 issue of Modern Reformation magazine on the topic of "post-Evangelicalism." The idea of post-Evangelicalism is actually a return to the essentials of the Protestant Reformation. …
Month: November 2008
Kentucky Creation Museum
Michael Spencer, the Internet Monk, has a good review of the Kentucky Creation Museum. For the extremely patient, it is worth wading through the 100+ comments. Most of the commenters are old-Earth Christians. One of my comments was "Keep the faith. Toss the junk." Grace and Peace
Political objections
OK, I said a while back that it was nice to have the election behind us, and that I hoped I wouldn't spend much time on politics until 2012. Well, it's hard to switch gears... I liked this, from Phil Johnson (The Spurgeon Archive Phil Johnson, not the Intelligent Design Phillip Johnson) at Pyromaniacs: I …
Wendell Berry
Rod Dreher is author of the Crunchy Con (granola conservatism) blog and an editorial writer for the Dallas Morning News, and he wrote in the name of Wendell Berry on his ballot for president of the United States. A week before, he wrote a column about Wendell Berry in his newspaper: Wendell Berry's Time is …
Oil, geologists, women
The November issue of GSA Today (from the Geological Society of America) has a graph showing the inflation-adjusted price of oil, the number of graduates in the geosciences, and the percentage of those graduates who are female: Black: price of a barrel of oil in 2007 US dollars Red: number of geoscience graduates (plummeted in …
The Green Bible
The Green Bible from HarperOne. NRSV. Green letter edition. Soy-based inks on recycled paper. $19.77 on Amazon.com. Amazon's description: "The Green Bible will equip and encourage you to see God's vision for creation and help you engage in the work of healing and sustaining it. This first Bible of its kind includes inspirational essays from …
Another election map
From Christianity Today, a map showing Evangelical Christian voting patterns: You can click on the states for statistics. HT: World Magazine Grace and Peace
Red Counties, Blue Counties 2
A much better county by county 2008 presidential map is found at the New York Times site: It's a little faint, but one nifty feature is the ability to zoom in to see data from any one county: The NYT also has a county bubble map. Blue for Obama, and red for McCain, plus the …
Red counties, blue counties
You've all seen the red state/blue state maps on election night. Here's a map showing the 2008 presidential election on a county-by-county basis: The USA looks red after all! There is actually a lot more blue on the map than there was in 2004, when Bush defeated Kerry: This 2004 map is asthetically much more …
What is it?
Is it... A. Shag carpeting from the 1970s? B. The surface of a cat's tongue? C. The surface of the sun? D. A French impressionist painting from the 1860s? E. A map of magnetic field lines in a portion of the Precambrian Canadian Shield? Click here for the answer.
Nature on canvas
Before there was color landscape photography, there was painting. One of the great landscape artists was Albert Bierstadt, whose Valley of the Yosemite is currently featured on a 42-cent stamp: The Art Renewal Center advertises itself as the internet's largest online art museum, and has hundreds of high-resolution Bierstadt paintings (as well as thousands of …
Some Political Observations
A few random thoughts regarding the election: I listened to McCain's concession speech and Obama's victory speech on NPR on the radio. I didn't see the crowds, but the reporter described the McCain crowd as "monochromatic," and the Obama crowd as very diverse. That the party of Lincoln is so predominantly white should tell us …
President Obama
As you know, I supported John McCain for president. In his concession speech last night, McCain modeled the graciousness and respect that we should have for the president-elect, Barack Obama. The election of an African-American to the presidency is certainly a historic occasion, and a sign that we as a nation are maturing in terms …
A final plug
1. I'm unemployed. 2. I haven't made enough money to pay federal income taxes since 1999. 3. I'm paying for expensive health insurance out of my own pocket. 4. My retirement account is shrinking, not growing. 5. I'm an environmentalist. So who am I voting for? Why? 1. I'm unemployed. The tax plan of McCain …
Good observations
Scientists don't have to be right on everything to make a lasting contribution. Good observations tend to endure longer than interpretations. From Winter, J.D., An Introduction to Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, p. 424. This is from Chapter 21: "An Introduction to Metamorphism," and referred to the 19th-20th century geologist George Barrow, who first described metamorphic …
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