From LiveScience: Extinct Woolly Mammoth's DNA Mapped Scientists for the first time have unraveled much of the genetic code of an extinct animal, the ice age's woolly mammoth, and with it they are thawing Jurassic Park dreams. Their groundbreaking achievement has them contemplating a once unimaginable future when certain prehistoric species might one day be …
Crescent Earth
The first images of the Earth taken from the moon wasn't the one taken by Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968; they were taken by unmanned lunar orbiters which were scouting out potential landing sites for the upcoming Apollo missions. This image was taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966, and has been recently reprocessed by …
UK Darwin coin
February 12, 2009 will be the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (as well as being the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln). The Royal Mint is producing a 2 pound circulating coin in commemoration of Darwin: I expect to see lots of fireworks from all sides of the creation-evolution debate …
The future ice age
Irregardless of what we do to the planet now, the long-term climate prospect for sometime a few thousand to a few tens of thousands of years in the future is cold: Earth may face freeze worse than Ice Age. This is nothing new to geologists, recognizing that Earth is presently in a short interglacial period …
Another extrasolar planet image
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is another image of planets orbiting another star, this time taken with infrared radiation: These three planets are orbiting the star HR 8799. NASA has an ambitious plan to search for Earth-sized, or even Earth-like planets. The hope is to be able to directly image Earth-sized planets (the above …
Ten arguments for God’s existence
Theologically, I know that I believe in God because, by his grace, he has drawn me to himself. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. (John 6:44). I find apologetics (the rational defense of the faith), however, to be exceedingly useful, including the philosphical arguments for God's existence. …
Compassionate environmentalism vs. plunder the Earth
This item was originally posted in November 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. There is a growing awareness among Evangelicals of the importance of environmental issues. There are good Biblical arguments for …
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First image of a planet around another star
From today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: The description from APOD: Explanation: Fomalhaut (sounds like "foam-a-lot") is a bright, young, star, a short 25 light-years from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation Piscis Austrinus. In this sharp composite from the Hubble Space Telescope, Fomalhaut's surrounding ring of dusty debris is imaged in detail, …
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One thing
From the song "My One Thing" by Rich Mullins: Everybody I know says they need just one thing And what they really mean is that they need just one thing more And everybody seems to think they've got it coming Well I know that I don't deserve You Still I want to love and serve …
Good conservative quotes on the environment
I've been involved in a discussion over at Cranach about the battle for the soul of the conservative movement: Conservative civil war. I threw in a few quotes from noted conservatives to point out that there is nothing conservative about allowing pollution and degradation of the Earth. "While I am a great believer in the …
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The moral argument for God’s existence
There are four basic categories of philosophical arguments for God's existence. The one I find most compelling is the cosmological argument, which I have written about here and here. Gene Edward Veith (Cranach, another blog I read almost daily) points to a statement of the moral argument for God's existence by William Lane Craig: The …
The Bible Rocks — Review by Dr. Peter Enns
A good review of Young and Stearley's The Bible, Rocks, and Time by Dr. Peter Enns, professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, can be found here. I haven't finished the book yet, but agree with Dr. Enns that "despite this blunt assessment of young-Earth creationism, the authors’ treatment of their opponents’ views are …
Post-Evangelicalism
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. …
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
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