Sunday, November 21, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Friday, September 24, 2010

Theologian vs. Astronomer

Once Astronomer had this conversation with a theologian:

Why do theologians always get involved in technicalities arguing about predestination, infralapsarianism and supralapsarianism and all these technical tings that ordinary lay people don't understand or care about at all?

For me religion is simple, It's the golden rule, "do unto others as you wold have them do unto you".

The Theologian replied:

I think I know exactly what you are saying, because I have the same problem with you astronomers. You always are dazzling us with this technical language about exploding super novas, pulsating quasars, singularity... for me astronomy is simple, it's twinkle twinkle little star.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Three Moons Cast Shadows on Jupiter

Ultraviolet Image of Multiple Comet Impacts on Jupiter
Source: Hubblesite.org
a rare alignment of three of Jupiter's largest moons – Io, Ganymede, and Callisto – across the planet's face. In this image, the telltale signatures of this alignment are the shadows [the three black circles] cast by the moons. Io's shadow is located just above center and to the left; Ganymede's on the planet's left edge; and Callisto's near the right edge. Only two of the moons, however, are visible in this image. Io is the white circle in the center of the image, and Ganymede is the blue circle at upper right. Callisto is out of the image and to the right. The image was taken March 28, 2004, with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Why Hell Exists

The existence of hell confirms the holiness of GOD. Without it GOD would neither be Holy nor Just. It's not the fear of hell that drives a sinner to GOD but the splendid magnificence of his holiness, justice, love and Mercy. Christians who do not believe in the literal hell, affirm that GOD is not holy and not just. I doubt that they are real Christians at all.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Six Pillars of Intellectual Insanity:

1. SUBJECTIVISM There is no such thing as an absolute truth. Truth is whatever we as individuals or we as a society decide it is.

2. RELATIVISM There is no such thing as an absolute moral principle. What is right or wrong is whatever we as individuals or we as a society decide it is.

3. SCIENTISM Science is the only source of knowledge and what can't be measured doesn't exist.

4. POLITICISM The solutions to all personal, social, and moral problems must be politically determined.

5. DETERMINISM Man has no free will and is simply subject to the mechanical laws of nature.

6. COLLECTIVISM The individual exists for social ends and his greatest good is to serve the political economy.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sinners in the hand of the angry GOD

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by American theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. Like Edwards' other sermons and writings, it combines vivid imagery of the Christian concept of Hell with observations of the secular world and citations of scripture. It remains Edwards' most famous written work, and is widely studied both among American Christians and historians, due to the glimpse it provides into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730–1755.



Saturday, May 15, 2010

Really cool RC dragonfly

I think this is the best platform for video surveilance.

MikroKopter - HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Trees retaliate when fig wasps don't service them

Figs and fig wasps help each other out: Fig wasps lay their eggs inside the fruit where the wasp larvae can safely develop, and in return, the wasps pollinate the figs.
But what happens when a wasp lays its eggs but fails to pollinate the fig?
The trees get even by dropping those figs to the ground, killing the baby wasps inside, reports a Cornell and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (published online Jan. 13).
The findings suggest that when one species in a mutually beneficial relationship fails to hold up its end of the bargain, sanctions may be a necessary part of maintaining the relationship.
A female fig wasp (Tetrapus americanus) is about to enter a flowering fig (Ficus maxima).


Once inside, the fig wasp will pollinate and lay her eggs in the flowers that line the inside of the fig.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Ultimate Triumph

"There is a preacher of the old school, but he speaks about as boldly as ever today. He's not very popular, even though the world is his parish, and he travels to every part of the globe, and he speaks in every language. He visits the poor. He visits the rich. He preaches to people of every religion, and he preaches to many of no religion. And the subject of his sermon is always the same. It never changes. He is an eloquent preacher, and he is able to stir emotions in hearts that are not emotional. He is able to bring tears to eyes that seldom weep. His arguments are beyond refutation. There is no heart that remains untouched and moved by the force of his appeals. This preacher shatters life. This preacher disturbs the status quo. Most people hate him. Everybody listens to him. His name is death. Every tombstone is his pulpit. Every newspaper prints his text. And one day you will be the subject of his sermon, and he will stand at your graveside and preach to others...

With this in mind, Thomas Gray said, "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave, await alike the inevitable hour, the paths of glory lead but to the grave." With every living soul that comes into this world, there is a built-in little time fuse, and we all have one. And when we're born, it's lit, and it begins to burn. And some burn fast and some burn slow, but all burn. And every birth signals the beginning of a countdown, and every countdown zeroes on an exit. And some countdowns are long and some are short...

And so life is just the process of dying. And yet men shrug off their indifference, and they yawn in God's face while their fuse burns and their countdown continues. And to many men, life may seem like a dead end street. And at the end of that dead end street is the inevitable pine box, and that's about all they have to look forward to...The day when the fuse burns out, the day when the hearse arrives and somebody has reached zero hour. And then what? What after that? I mean is there a hope? Is there an escape from doom? Is there something that has power over death, or does death grab us and hold us?"

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Like No Other Planet

1. Like no other known planet, 98% of earth is made up of iron, oxygen, sulfur, silicon, magnesium and nickel.
2. Like no other planet, the earth is covered with green vegetation pumping mountains of fresh oxygen into our air and cleaning the atmosphere of harmful carbon dioxide.
3. Like no other planet, earth has an endless supply of oxygen-laden water, circulating in its streams, rivers and oceans teeming with self-sustaining life.
4. Like no other planet, the surface of the earth is a glorious gem in the universe compared to its dull and lifeless counterparts.
5. Like no other planet, life is found in every square inch of earth—even in Antarctica. One acre of farmland six inches thick is estimated to contain several tons of living bacteria, a ton of fungi, 200 pounds of unicellular protozoan animals, about 100 pounds of yeast and 100 pounds of algae.
6. Like no other planet, the earth travels at just the right speed in its 292 million-mile-long orbit around the sun. Too much faster and it would be pulled away from the sun and if too far all life would die. And if it traveled slightly slower it would move too close to the sun and all life would perish.
7. Like no other planet, the earth's rotation on its axis protects the life on it. If slower all life would die in time by a combination of freezing at night due to a lack of sunlight and burning up during the day due to too much sun.
8. Like no other planet, the earth sits perfectly in its environment. For example, if the moon were too close to the earth it would create massive tides which would erode the continents and mountain ridges making the earth flat. It is estimated it would then be covered with one and a half miles of water.
9. Like no other planet, 70% of the earth is covered with living water. The water acts as a heat sink absorbing the sun's energy during the day keeping the earth comfortable and gradually releasing its heat by night keeping the earth from becoming unbearably cold. Without the temperature balancing act of the vast reservoirs of the earth's water many parts would be hot enough to boil water during the day and freeze water during the night. Life could not exist.
10. Like no other planet, God's earth has a built-in thermostat. Just a few degrees change in earth's average temperature would result in most life roasting or freezing.
11. Like no other known planet, the earth's one mile thick girdle protects it from the heat of its molten core.
12. Like no other planet, the earth touts a radiation shielding ozone layer, without which life could not exist.

There are literally hundreds of such examples that testify of the uniqueness of God's good earth. The tolerances for life to exist and amenities necessary to sustain it are so phenomenally unique to earth that the odds of them existing elsewhere in space are simply beyond numerical comprehension