Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon. From the Cincinnati Enquirer: One short name, one giant headache for Ohio man
Month: July 2009
Earth Observatory — recent images
Some of my favorite recent images from NASA's Earth Observatory Image of the Day: Swirling sea ice near Baffin Island (credit: NASA/Terra/MODIS) Apollo 11 landing site (credit: NASA/Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter). Images of other Apollo landing sites are at NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter site. The orbiter isn't in its final orbit, and future images will have …
GM bailout money used to send jobs overseas
The Stillwater Complex in south-central Montana is the only significant US source of platinum and palladium, which are used in automobile catalytic converters. The newly restructured General Motors, with the US government as a primary shareholder, has decided to cancel its platinum-group metals contract with Stillwater Mining Company, opting for cheaper ores from Russia and …
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More atheist quotes on Dawkins and the new atheists
Perhaps Richard Dawkins and the "new atheists" are to atheism as young-Earth creationists are to Christianity. Some atheists find the new atheists to be rather embarrassing. Here are some quotes from a Marxist---and from what I can tell, atheist---literary critic by the name of Terry Eagleton: "Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge …
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Hail storm
Sorry I don't have pictures, but we just had the strongest hailstorm I've ever seen. We had enough one-inch hail in a short amount of time to make the ground almost completely white, with some accumulations being several inches deep. I didn't even know there was a thunderstorm, and all of the sudden it sounded …
Apollo 11 — 40 years later
I was eight years old when Apollo 11 went to the moon, and was glued to the television every step along the way (with the reporting of Walter Cronkite). I watched the first step on the moon on our black and white television. When there was a break, I ran over to a friend's house---one …
Ten places to take your kids — Yahoo’s list and mine
From Yahoo Travel: 10 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up Here they are: The Brooklyn Bridge The Pacific Coast Highway Niagara Falls New Orleans Devil's Tower Mount Rushmore & The Crazy Horse Memorial Dinosaur Valley (Glen Rose, Texas) Gettysburg National Park National Air and Space Museum The Grand Canyon My kids have …
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CRC periodic table, 1924
One more periodic table: from the 1924 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, which one of my ancestors picked up somewhere. This periodic table has 79 elements, as opposed to the 117 on the current periodic table, 90 of which are naturally-occurring. The familiar modern layout of the periodic table (as on my previous post) …
PDF periodic table
Here is a PDF of the periodic table I used when I taught chemistry at Bucharest Christian Academy, updated to include copernicium (element 112, Cp). Feel free to copy and distribute this table. The GeoChristian Periodic Table of the Elements Here's what it looks like:
Element 112 — Copernicium
Element 112, a few atoms of which were created in Germany in 1996, finally has an official name. The new name is copernicium (symbol Cp), in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). "Copernicium" replaces the temporary name ununbium (un=one, un=one, bi=two for 112, symbol Uub) that element 112 has had since it was created. It …
Republicans for Environmental Protection — 10 critical issues
Jim DiPeso of Republicans for Environmental Protection gives 10 Environmental Issues Republicans Should Champion. Climate change Energy security Clean energy Clean air Clean water Mountaintop removal coal mining Land and water conservation fund Wilderness Public lands Ocean stewardship A few thoughts: Some of these should be no-brainers, such as clean air, clean water, and ocean …
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Updates: job search, Best of The GeoChristian, Dr. Dino
I'm still looking for a job in the Earth sciences or GIS. I have a very strong possibility for an excellent position, but until it's a sure thing I'll keep on looking. Click here for a brief resume, or go to Ten reasons why you should hire me. I'm working on compiling a list of …
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Anak Krakatau
From today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: Erupting Volcano Anak Krakatau. You will have to go to APOD to see it in all its glory. Grace and Peace
J. Gresham Machen on the age of the Earth
John Gresham Machen was a professor at Princeton Seminary in the early 1900s, and was founder of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He is best known as a defender of Christian orthodoxy in the face of rising theological liberalism in the churches of his day. Perhaps his most famous book was Christianity and Liberalism, in …
The Lord Will Provide
Unemployment isn't easy, but as a Christian I have to trust that God is my provider. I have work to do to find a job, but even then it is God who is in ultimate control. I have been comforted and encouraged lately by the song "The Lord Will Provide" by Matthew Smith, which is …
Atheist summer camp
From Albert Mohler: Richard Dawkins Jumps The Shark. News out of Great Britain indicates that Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living atheist, is setting up a summer camp intended to help children and teenagers adopt atheism. As The Times [London] reports: "Give Richard Dawkins a child for a week's summer camp and he will …
Paleontologists visit the Answers in Genesis museum
The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum in Kentucky apparently has a nest of dinosaur eggs on display (here and here). If you are a regular reader of The GeoChristian, you know that I believe that the Bible is the Word of God. I don't believe much of what Answers in Genesis has to say about …
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K-T iridium layer, Raton NM
The first concrete evidence that an asteroid impact ended the Cretaceous Period was the discovery of an iridium-rich layer marking the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary by a team led by Luis Alvarez in the early 1980s. Iridium is very rare in Earth's crust, but is considerably more abundant in asteroids, leading geologists to conclude that the …
Another fundamentalist for an old Earth
A commenter on this blog recently implied that I am just a "so called Christian" because I accept an old Earth and evolution. On a young-Earth blog that I have been commenting on, those who accept an old age for the Earth (including myself) have been accused of "listening to the serpent." I try to …
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