Musings on science, the Bible, and fantastic literature (and sometimes basketball and other stuff).
God speaks to us through the Bible and the findings of science, and we should listen to both types of revelation.
The title is from Psalm 84:11.
The Wikipedia is usually a pretty good reference. I mostly use the World English Bible (WEB), because it is public domain. I am grateful.
Things I have spotted that may be of interest to others:
An extensive web site on Charles Wesley.
Gizmodo reports on terrible conditions for living things in ancient times. Probably these threats were caused, or enhanced, by ferns. That's right, ferns.
An article in The Conversation, discusses testosterone levels carefully. Unlike some.
NPR, and other outlets on a rogue artificial intelligence, which hacked into another AI, without help from real humans.
SpaceDaily reports on exploration, deep in ocean tranches, by a Chinese group, which found large ecosystems, getting their energy from methane and other molecules.
Joel Duff has posted a careful analysis of Intelligent Design ideas.
Heart, Mind,, Soul and Strength gives a list of Greek words for kinds of love, and, also, Greek words for love that weren't used in the New Testament.
According to many news outlets, Lindsey Graham, long-time senator from South Carolina, died suddenly.
Graham was one of my senators for a long time, when we lived in South Carolina.
I didn't agree with Graham on some things, but, on others, I did. He was a man of principle, willing to state his opinions, and wasn't looking to advance himself.
Rest in Peace.
CNN and other outlests are reporting on possible dangers from the geological faults in Southern California.
Gizmodo reports on research on laughter. There are two kinds of laughter. One spontaneous and one not so much.
BioLogos has an article about the apparent long lives of people in Genesis.
MSN, and other outlets, report that Pope Leo has excommunicated priests who reject some of the changes proposed and adopted during the 20th Century.
The flag seen in "the dawn's early light" near Baltimore, which was under attack by the British, was real. Here's more on Francis Scott Key who wrote what we now know as the "Star Spangled Banner." Key freed at least some of his slaves.
Gismodo reports that dust from the Sahara Desert is blowing across the Atlantic to North America.
This is a hilarious YouTube video of Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews, being funny, and throwing a lot of cake frosting (or aomething) around.
The two of them are pretending to replay the Boston Tea Party (although that event took place several years before the actual Revolutionary War). But it's fun. The video is about 11 minutes long.
Recent reports indicate that Europeans are suffering seriously from the heat, including several deaths. Most buildings in Europe are not air-conditioned.
I saw a news report on that situation. A European woman was asked whether she thought that more buildings should be air-conditioned. She did not think so. Apparently, her reasons had to do with a fact that we, in North America, seldom consider. That is that running air conditioning increases the temperature.
Why is that? Because running a motor in an air conditioning device generates heat. If you don't believe this, find an air conditioning device that is where you can feel the output. You will feel heat.
The laws of thermodynamics, perhaps the most fundamental laws of physics, tell us that moving parts in a device generate heat, from friction, and other consequences of the system. The heat in an air-conditioned building is removed to the outside.
See this article: Air conditioning may be making cities even hotter - Earth.com
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Adoration (honoring God for His
attributes)
Confession (asking forgiveness for things
we shouldn’t have done, and for things we didn’t do, but should have.)
Thanksgiving (Thanking God for things He
has done.
Supplication (Asking God for things we
need, or that other people need)
I don't know where this came from. Sorry.
Relevant reports on scholar N. T. Wright's view of the appropriateness of women in ministry.
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Things I have spotted that may be of interest to you:
Joel Duff has posted another serious article about why there are no dinosaurs now, if they survived the Flood.
Gozmodo reports that pedestrians prefer to make choices to the left. We don't know why.
SciTech Daily discusses how a large stone was probably moved a few hundred kilometers to its current location in Stonehenge.
Relevant reports on a planned examination of what could be the remains of Noah's Ark. I tried to find a reference to this endeavor on the Answers in Genesis web site, but did not find such. (There are a lot of references to Noah's Ark!) There have been a number of studies, using various means, proposed, and perhaps carried out, and, so far, there don't seem to be any unambiguous remains of the Ark.
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