Tag Archives: earth science

What Difference Should It Make?

Posted on June 17, 2021 by ehurst

To answer the question in the title: Nothing. I apologize if some of you got the impression I have really bought into everything that Ben Davidson of Suspicious Observers has been saying. I think it’s interesting stuff, but my personal … Continue reading →

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Space Weather and Disasters

Posted on May 6, 2021 by ehurst

Today, I want to address a hobby of mine: astrophysics and geophysics. This will be a bit long, because I want to introduce a set of ideas about how God does things. Let’s not forget that Our Father controls all … Continue reading →

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More Hydrology: Draper Bikeway

Posted on May 26, 2018 by ehurst

We proclaim in our Radix Fidem covenant an affinity for the natural world. We seek to understand God’s moral character by understanding how Creation works. That includes some grasp of the mechanics. It’s not as if everyone should become an … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 4

Posted on January 26, 2018 by ehurst

In the early 1970s I attended East Anchorage High School. We had in most of our classrooms one or two old desks with a foot missing or a leg bent a little, pushed off in one corner. At least several … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 3

Posted on January 25, 2018 by ehurst

Our hand-n-arm model in the previous lesson oversimplifies things, of course. If you went out to the subduction zone off the southern shores of Alaska, and took a submarine down into the ocean to look at it, you wouldn’t see … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 2

Posted on January 24, 2018 by ehurst

The Tectonic Plate Theory is a good working model. It doesn’t account for everything, but it will get us where we need to go with understanding the Bad Friday Earthquake of 1964 and earthquakes in general. Most major earthquakes are … Continue reading →

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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 1

Posted on January 23, 2018 by ehurst

Just as an exercise, I wanted to share some of my education in the mechanics of earthquakes. I’ve never seen it offered anywhere else this way, particularly in public education. It seems it always has big gaps in it, so … Continue reading →

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