Category: Nature
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Reading Science for Reading Genesis Well
You may remember at the beginning of October I started a series, Genesis, Science, and Making Sense of it All. You may not remember that, and that’s ok. This is actually only the second post, and you’ll notice it is yet another stack of books. About half of these I didn’t have when I posted last,…
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The Great Christ Comet: Revealing The True Star of Bethlehem
I’m usually skeptical of books like this. However, I was intrigued after seeing someone who teaches astronomy review it on TGC (you’ll notice he has the same feeling I do about books like this). Since I had the ability to easily receive the e-Book from Crossway, I decided it was worth checking into. The endorsements are from…
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Christmas: The Original Star Wars (No Spoilers)
Yesterday, the stars aligned in an interesting way. It was the last day of classes before break and I wanted to spend some time reading the Christmas story in class. It was also, as you well know, the opening night for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which I saw, no comment). I had also been…
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World’s Most Active Volcano, A Taste of Austria, Optical Illusions
I watch quite a few YouTube and/or Vimeo videos. You might have picked up on this recently with the addition of Music Monday and Philosophy Friday which are primarily video based. Now, I’m going to start sharing my favorite three interesting/humorous videos from the week on Saturdays. This week, I’ve got a timelapse video of…
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This almost makes me want to visit Norway
We were at Epcot on Sunday and the old Norway ride with the cool trolls was closed because it’s being turned into a Frozen ride. Kinda lame, and the Norwegians aren’t stoked about it. Reminded me though about these videos, which make Norway rather enticing. (via) (via) And then there’s this: (via)