The version of WordPress that I am using for The GeoChristian gives me better statistical information about my blog than I got back when I blogged at "The Earth is Not Flat!" I not only get a count of how many views I have on a day to day basis, which I had before, but …
Knowing God – Chapter 9
Chapter 9 of Knowing God by J.I. Packer is "God Only Wise." Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. In God boundless wisdom and endless power are united, and this makes him utterly worthy of our fullest trust. …
Turkish Star Wars
My sons recently found "Turkish Star Wars" on the internet. This 1982 film has everything you would want in a movie that has made it to lists of "the worst movies ever made." It has scenes stolen from Star Wars, music stolen from Indiana Jones, and is bad in just about every possible way. It …
Physics Egg Drop 2007
My high school physics class at Bucharest Christian Academy is doing a unit on momentum and energy. When a fast-moving object hits another object, its fate depends on how long it takes for it to come to a complete stop. A skydiver whose parachute fails to open might survive if they hit a haystack or …
Where in the World? #5
Last week: Mauna Loa, Hawaii. By volume, Mauna Loa is the largest volcano in the world. Various web sites give the volume of its lava flows as anywhere from 40,000 to 75,000 km3. Most of the mountain is below sea level, but if one measures from the base to the summit, there is a total …
For the Beauty of the Earth — Chapter 3 — Complaint #2
Last week I started summarizing the complaints that some environmentalists have against Christianity as presented in chapter 3 of For the Beauty of the Earth, by Steven Bouma-Prediger. In my previous post on this, I presented the first complaint, which was that the Genesis 1:28 mandate that gave humans dominion over the creation leads to …
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Knowing God – Chapter 8 Quotes
We took a break from going through Knowing God by J.I. Packer at the dinner table, but now we are back into it. Chapter 8 is "The Majesty of God." Here are a few good quotes: How may we form a right idea of God's greatness? The Bible teaches us two steps that we must …
Where in the World? #4
Last week I had an image of Toba, a volcano on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia (winner: Ron Schott from The Geology Home Companion). Toba had a colossal eruption 70-75,000 years ago which was probably the largest on Earth in the past several million years; even larger than the eruptions of the Yellowstone Caldera …
Faux Futures
Paleo-Future has a collection of paintings from 1910 envisioning what life would be like in the year 2000. Here are a few of my favorites: Go to Paleo-Future for more. Grace and Peace
The Paleomap Project
Welcome to The GeoChristian. Out of over 600 posts on my blog, this one on the Paleomap Project is in the top five in terms of how many people view it. The purpose of The GeoChristian is twofold: 1. To enhance science literacy within the Evangelical Christian community. 2. To present a Biblical Christianity that …
The Inner Life of the Cell — The Extended Version
This item was originally posted in September, 2006. It is now part of 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 version of this video on YouTube that I don't think was available last year. …
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For the Beauty of the Earth — Chapter 3 — Complaint #1
A continuation of my review of For the Beauty of the Earth, by Steven Bouma-Prediger. I'm going through chapter 3, which is "Is Christianity to Blame? The Ecological Complaint Against Christianity." The author discusses four common complaints that environmentalists have against Christianity, starting with: The first is that monotheism in general, and Christianity in particular, …
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For the Beauty of the Earth — Chapter 3
Chapter 3 of For the Beauty of the Earth by Steven Bouma-Prediger is called "Is Christianity to Blame? The Ecological Complaint Against Christianity." Among many environmentalists, the strong emotions felt against Christianity is as strong as that which many conservative Christians have against "tree-hugging enviro-wackos." Consider these statements from the Sierra Club's magazine Sierra: To …
Earth First/Scream Therapy
At my school, we are having teacher in-service meetings on "worldviews." We're watching a series from The Biblical Worldview Institute, and as part of today's session we watched a video clip about trees, starring people from the radical environmentalist organism organization Earth First! The video can be found here. We are learning about integrating Biblical …
Where in the World? #3
Last week's Google Earth image was Vesuvius, most famous for its 79 AD eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, near modern-day Naples, Italy. Vesuvius has erupted numerous times throughout history, with the most recent eruption being in 1944. The outer rim on the right side of the photo is from a prehistoric catastrophic eruption that …
Tungurahua Revisited
Back in December, I had a short entry about the Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day has an incredible picture from last year's eruption: photo by Patrick Taschler The description from APOD: Explanation: Volcano Tungurahua erupted spectacularly last year. Pictured above, molten rock so hot it glows visibly pours down the sides …
Earthquakes in the News
It has been a year of mega-earthquakes. From today's US Geological Survey home page: Sumatra Earthquake—Largest in 2007 The magnitude-8.4 earthquake that struck Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sept. 12, 2007, was the largest of four magnitude~8 earthquakes that have occurred worldwide since January. It is also the largest earthquake in Indonesia since the magnitude-8.6 "Nias" earthquake …
Biofuel-ishness?
Some present biofuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel) as the great cure for our energy and environmental problems. After all, if we grow our fuel, we don't have to import it from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Venezuela. Additionally, whatever CO2 is released when the fuel is burned was originally removed from the atmosphere when the plant grew, …
Marketing Christian Books
One of my goals when we returned to the States back in 2005 for our "home assignment" was to not go into a regular Christian bookstore. By "regular Christian bookstore" I'm referring to the typical strip-mall bookstore in which you can find a hundred copies of whatever the latest fad book is but cannot buy …
The Environment and Abortion
From Lifenews.com: "Why Do Some Environmentalists Think Saving Earth Requires Abortions?" If asked what function the San Francisco-based Sierra Club performs, most of its 1.3 million members would probably reply "protecting the environment," or "raising awareness of endangered species," or words to that effect. Yet, in their 2007 legislative report for Minnesota, the Sierra Club …
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