"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." -- Genesis 1:1 One thing that young-Earth creationists and the New Atheists agree on is that if one were to believe the Bible, one would have to believe that the universe, including planet Earth, is only 6000 years old. Of course, both the YECs and the …
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"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." Matthew 4:4 ESV It is through the Scriptures that we can know God, Christ, ourselves, and how to live in regards to God and our neighbor. I cannot think of any greater thing in life than to …
There are still a few days left in the year, but here are the ten most-read articles on The GeoChristian for 2012. Only one of them was written this year. Dr. Dino still in prison -- This has consistently been the most-read article on The GeoChristian since I wrote it almost four years ago. Kent Hovind, a.k.a. …
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For a geologist/cartographer like me, this could be as mesmerizing as Google Earth! The U.S. Geological Survey has done an absolutely wonderful job of presenting geological maps online with its National Geologic Map Database MapView. This site offers a seamless view of geologic maps produced by the USGS and state geological surveys. A good geologic …
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From Knowing God by J.I. Packer, Chapter 5 (God Incarnate): It is no wonder that thoughtful people find the gospel of Jesus Christ hard to believe, for the realities with which it deals pass man's understanding. But it is sad that so many make faith harder than it need be, by finding difficulties in the …
UN-MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM NEWSWEEK -- The print edition of Newsweek is being discontinued, but they had to take one last swipe at Biblical Christianity. One of the final cover stories was What Do We Really Know About Jesus? by the non-Christian Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman. Most of Ehrman's attacks on the Biblical record have been …
The Cassini probe, in orbit around Saturn, has captured a new radar image showing a long river on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. From the European Space Agency: "The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to be a miniature extraterrestrial version of the Nile River: a river valley on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches more …
NASA recently released Earth at Night, a global view of the planet at night, with city lights, oilfield flares, night time fishing fleets, and auroras. Google has created a wonderful viewer for this data, which can be found at its Earth at Night 2012 site. Grace and Peace
"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has." -- Proverbs 21:20 (NIV 1984) This proverb condemns the fool who consumes all he has with no regard for the future. As a Christian who believes that it is as much a sin to be …
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THE QUEEN JAMES BIBLE -- Sadly, I am not kidding. The Queen James Bible is a Bible for Gays, re-"translated" to make "homophobic" interpretations impossible. Read more about it at First Things. HT: Internet Monk. WWJF (WHAT WOULD JESUS FLY?) -- Christianity Today reports that "David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Ministries (popularly known as Winners' Chapel) in Lagos, Nigeria's …
A great evil happened today: twenty young children were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. As always, some will respond to an evil action by asking, “How could there be a God?” I respond to tragedy by asking, “How can there not be a God?” For if there is no God, …
From NASA Earth Observatory's Image of the Day -- my favorites for November 2012: A Changed Coastline in New Jersey -- These images show why building (or rebuilding) on a barrier island is not a really good idea. These two aerial photos show a view of Mantoloking, New Jersey before and after "Superstorm" Sandy in October, …
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"Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ." -- Ephesians 4:15 (NIV 1984) In Ephesians 4:15, Paul calls on Christians to do two things at once. The first of these is that we are to speak the truth. The second is that we …
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UNICORNS REALLY EXIST! -- So say North Korean scientists -- see Unicorns’ Existence Proven at Time.com. Perhaps it is time for ICR, AiG, and CMI to subcontract the search for mokele-mbembe to the North Koreans. I'm not quite ready, however, to revise my post of a few years ago on Unicorns in the Bible, in which I respond to skeptics who say …
In between sessions at the young-Earth creation seminar I attended last month, there was a promotion for an upcoming anti-environmentalist documentary entitled "Axed: The End of Green," created by Montana filmmaker J.D. King. According to the promotional video, the objective of the documentary will be to expose "the dark side of the green movement for …
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NUKE THE MOON!!!! -- U.S. had plans to nuke the moon -- The U.S. Government really wanted to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon in the late 1950s, sort of as a macho "We're better than the Soviets" thing. One of the researchers on this project was a graduate student named Carl Sagan. BIG NEWS …
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