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Decorah Eagle Comes Full Circle

Published on December 30, 2011 in Creation. 3 Comments

My wife, who followed the eagles on her Ipad, and whose teenage children will presumably fly away in the approaching years, will like this story of eagles circling back to the nest:

DECORAH, Iowa – She’s back. After a four-month, 900-mile tour of Minnesota and Wisconsin, D1, the world-famous, wired Decorah eagle, has returned to Decorah. “Who would have ever guessed? Not me,” said Bob Anderson, the raptor expert who fitted her with a satellite transmitter this summer.

Satellite data confirm that D1 roosted Wednesday night in a tree just north of Palisades Park on the east edge of Decorah. “She is so near to my house that if the transmitter was turned on I could get a beep from my doorstep,” said Anderson, director of the Raptor Resource Project, whose nest-cam website has been visited more than 213 million times this year. Anderson said he picked up her signal near the Yellow River in Allamakee County on Tuesday morning but was unable to track it to the bird herself.

On Wednesday morning, Anderson and a friend returned to the area and picked up a weak signal, which grew in strength as they traveled toward it on gravel roads. . .

Read the rest here.

I haven’t studied global warming, but I found this interesting . . .

Published on September 24, 2011 in Creation. 1 Comment

Gunny recently pointed out that a Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist has Resigned Over Global Warming and he has additional some additional thoughts on the “conclusions” of modern science.

 

God’s glory shines in Hummingbirds

Published on May 17, 2011 in Creation. 1 Comment

Oh LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. Psalm 8:1

HT: Laughing Squid

I’ve never been snorkeling but this makes me want to go . . .

Published on March 27, 2011 in Creation. 0 Comments

Randy Alcorn:

When I think of the first glimpse of Heaven, I think of the first time I went snorkeling. It was absolutely breathtaking. There were thousands of fish of every shape and size and color, and just when you think you’ve seen the most beautiful creation, here comes another one. It’s endless. (I’ve included a couple pictures I’ve taken while snorkeling.)

I remember after days of snorkeling walking way out and jumping off the rocks into water that was sixty feet deep. The water was so clear I had the sensation of falling, and I could see fish and shells on the bottom as if just a few inches away. For most of my life I had seldom thought about that other world under the water. But I fell in love with that other world, and often find myself thinking about it even now.

Here to read the rest and see a really breath-taking video.

Journey to the center of the earth

Published on March 5, 2011 in Creation and Photography. 0 Comments

This photo essay from, “The Big Picture,” about a team visiting the rim of a volcano in Africa is like something out of Lord of the Rings.

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Gospel of the Trees

Published on February 23, 2011 in Creation and Recommended Links. 0 Comments

Alan Jacobs posts about a new site that  includes some beautiful photography set in Illinois:

Some years ago I decided that I wanted to write a book about trees, and more particularly the strangely central role that trees play in the Biblical story. That role meant, necessarily, that they would find their way, profoundly, into Western literature, and I wanted to say something about that too. But I love trees as they are in themselves, as material things in the material world, so I did not want them to take on a purely symbolic or metaphorical significance.

Though I wrote and even published some thoughts about trees, I couldn’t get the story to come together, no matter how hard I tried. My thoughts didn’t want to coalesce, refused to become a book; they remained scattered and disjointed. Moreover, I knew that if I ever succeeded in weaving them together, the resulting book would demand images — and more images than a cost-conscious publisher would be likely to tolerate.

Only after a long period of worrying over this did I come to the conclusion that my thoughts, such as they were, didn’t belong in a book, but rather constituted a website. So I contacted my friendBrad Cathey, a gifted designer, and he made a site for me.

It’s called Gospel of the Trees. Please check it out.

Albert Mohler: “No Buzzing Little Fly: Why the Creation-Evolution Debate is So Important”

Published on January 27, 2011 in Creation. 0 Comments

Dr. Mohler summarizes why he believes that the Creation – Evolution debate is of foundational significance. An excerpt:

As I have stated repeatedly, I accept without hesitation the fact that the world indeed looks old. Armed with naturalistic assumptions, I would almost assuredly come to the same conclusions as BioLogos and the evolutionary establishment, or I would at least find evolutionary arguments credible. But the most basic issue is, and has always been, that of worldview and basic presuppositions. The entire intellectual enterprise of evolution is based on naturalistic assumptions, and I do not share those presuppositions. Indeed, the entire enterprise of Christianity is based on supernaturalistic, rather than merely naturalistic, assumptions. There is absolutely no reason that a Christian theologian should accept the uniformitarian assumptions of evolution. In fact, given a plain reading of Scripture, there is every reason that Christians should reject a uniformitarian presupposition. The Bible itself offers a very different understanding of natural phenomena, with explanations that should be compelling to believers. In sum, there is every reason for Christians to view the appearance of the cosmos as graphic evidence of the ravages of sin and the catastrophic nature of God’s judgment upon sin.

Read the whole thing here.

HT: Eternal Perspectives

The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics

Published on April 3, 2010 in Creation. 0 Comments

Discover a more thorough solution to this problem, write a brief paper, and you will be famous. 

In the mean time, enjoy creation (Psalm 19:1-6).

HT: Dark Roasted Blend