From Yahoo News: Polar bears destroy BBC documentary cameras.
Month: December 2010
Around the web 12/30/2010
Eurypterids in the petting zoo? -- Eurypterids---the giant, scorpion-like arthropods of Ordovician to Devonian seas and lakes---may not have been the terrors of the waters that most have assumed. From FoxNews: Ancient 8-Foot Sea Scorpions Probably Were Pussycats. Some may have been vegetarians or scavengers, though the researchers acknowledge that species other than the ones …
2010 Reading
I didn't get as much reading done in 2010 as I did in 2009, but that reflects the stage of life I'm in. Here are the books I finished this year: The Lost World of Genesis One by John Walton -- Walton makes the case for a "cosmic temple inauguration" view of Genesis one. A …
Reading the Bible in 2011
Many make a New Year's resolution to read the Bible more consistently than they have in the past, and many don't stick to that resolution. Here's what works for me. Rather than using a reading schedule, with a daily listing of what chapters to read, I usually use a Bible reading checklist: The GeoChristian Bible …
Around the web 12/11/2010
In the beginning... -- Blogger Joe Carter (at FirstThings.com) finds Stephen Hawking's cosmology as expressed in The Grand Design to be a bit "drab and nonspecific." Carter rewrites Hawkings to make it a little more of a "creation story for young atheistic materialists." In the beginning was Nothing, and Nothing created Everything. When Nothing decided …
Around the web 12/3/2010
A few items of interest (to me at least): Ark Encounter -- Answers in Genesis is planning a $150 million Noah's Ark tourist attraction in northern Kentucky, complete with a full-scale Noah's Ark. Local businesses and politicians (the governor of Kentucky was at the announcement) will love this, as it will likely bring in a …
Arsenic in DNA – maybe
News of surprising biochemistry: Thriving on Arsenic (NASA Astrobiology Magazine) NASA microbiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon has discovered bacteria that apparently can use arsenic in its DNA in place of phosphorus. Most biochemistry can be done with six elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur (CHONPS). Smaller amounts of a variety of other elements are also …
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