Harold Camping was wrong; the rapture did not occur on May 21, 2011. As shown in the graphic, the Rapture countdown on http://www.wecanknow.com is down to 0 months 0 days, and 200,000,000 Christians did not mysteriously disappear from the planet. A few, however, were quite a bit poorer after spending money on Rapture billboards and …
Harold Camping, the return of Christ, and my plans for May 22nd
Jesus: "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only." (Matthew 24:36 ESV) Harold Camping of Family Radio: The Rapture will be on May 21, 2011 (The "rapture" is the idea that Jesus will take his Church off the Earth before judging …
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Billings Gazette geology videos
The Billings Gazette has three short videos on the geology of the Billings, Montana area featuring Rocky Mountain College geology professor Derek Sjostrom: Geology of the Beartooths -- Montana's highest mountain range (Granite Peak, 12799 ft, 3902 m) has a core of 3.2 billion year old metamorphic rocks. Geology of the Pryors -- The Pryor …
50 things I am thankful for
Here is a brief list of things that I have been blessed with in my first fifty years of life. Many of these items could themselves be expanded to lists of hundreds of things to be thankful to God for. God's grace expressed to me in and through Jesus Christ. My beautiful wife. We've been …
Stephen Hawking, eternal life, and fairy tales
I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. --Nicene Creed Stephen Hawking, physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, recently had this to say about the notions of heaven and eternal life: I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its …
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Montana
I moved from Romania to Colorado in 2008. I moved to Missouri in 2009. I'll be moving "home" to Montana in a few weeks. John Steinbeck wrote, "I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." Here are three videos from …
Ken Ham and Richard Dawkins agree with each other, but they are both wrong
Ken Ham is an Evangelical Christian and is perhaps the world's most prominent anti-evolutionist and advocate of young-Earth creationism. Richard Dawkins, author of the best-selling book The God Delusion, is perhaps the world's most prominent proselytizer for atheism. The two men are worlds apart on a number of important issues, but they seem to be …
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Rock fall in Billings hits house, again
Video from the Billings Gazette: Rimrock boulder destroys video camera (I haven't figured out to embed this on on my WordPress blog). Slideshow: Gallery: Falling rocks. Article: Crews succeed in pushing slabs off Rimrocks cliff. Here's another video, but it isn't nearly as good as the "Rimrock boulder destroys video camera" linked to above: As …
The reality of the resurrection
What really happened on the first Easter, when Christians claim that Jesus Christ rose from the dead? Most skeptics assume that the complete burden of proof for this claim is on Christianity. From all that we know about life, history, biology, and so forth, dead people don't come back to life again. Therefore, it is …
The meaning of the resurrection
Some quotes from The Reason for God by Timothy Keller: Sometimes people approach me and say, "I really struggle with this aspect of Christian teaching. I like this part of Christian belief, but I don't think I can accept that part." I usually respond: "If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept …
Hristos a înviat!
Hristos a înviat! Adevărat a înviat! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!
Does dirt have the same value as a human? Some thoughts on Bolivian Mother Earthism
From FoxNews: U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether 'Mother Earth' Deserves Human Rights Status United Nations diplomats on Wednesday will set aside pressing issues of international peace and security to devote an entire day debating the rights of “Mother Earth.” A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General …
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Complex megadisasters
There are disasters. There are megadisasters. And now there are complex megadisasters. From The Christian Science Monitor: Mega-quakes and mega-disasters: Will US heed wake-up call in Japan? The crisis in Japan could be considered the first "complex megadisaster" the world has ever seen — a potent combination of natural and technological calamities that might become …
Ken Ham, home schooling, and theological orthodoxy
From Christianity Today: Creation Museum Founder Disinvited from Homeschooling Conferences Ken Ham, founder and president of Answers in Genesis, was disinvited from several homeschooling conferences after he criticized a fellow speaker at two Great Homeschool Conventions conferences and on his blog. "The Board believes that Ken's public criticism of the convention itself and other speakers …
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Japan tsunami propagation video and graphic
From the NOAA Center for Tsunami Research --- Honshu Tsunami Propagation Animation showing the spread of the March 11 tsunami: Note how the waves reflect and refract, just like you learned about in high school physics. Also from NOAA, a plot of the maximum amplitude of the tsunami: Note the faint gray contours; they represent …
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Geology and the scientific method
The following item was originally posted in February 2007. I have added it to my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries (sometimes with a little editing). We often hear about "the scientific method." It would be better …
Skepchick
An atheist writer has an entry on her blog today about The GeoChristian (see Skepchick: Genesis and Geology). She obviously has more readers than I do, and she has sent them in droves to click on "Myth" on my Understanding Genesis 1 poll. Skepchick started her blog entry by saying some nice things about me …
YEC college scores #1 in academics
A week ago I blogged about the possible link between creationism, home-schooling, and apostasy. I am the first to admit that my hypothesis that there is a link between creationism and apostasy (falling away from the faith) was anecdotal, and I am pleased that there are many home-schooled kids raised on young-Earth materials come out …
Video: star size comparison
From Astronomy Picture of the Day for February 22, 2001: Star Size Comparisons The video ends with the statement, "No, you are not the center of the universe!" That is true, but I like what John Piper has said about this fact in his book Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ: Sometimes people stumble over this …
John MacArthur on the age of the Earth and theistic evolution
Influential Reformed blogger Tim Challies recently interviewed the popular pastor and radio Bible teacher John MacArthur (5 More Questions with John MacArthur). One of the questions had to do with creation, evolution, and the age of the Earth: One pressing issue in the church today is that of creation and evolution. Do you believe that …
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