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This is a maclargehuge post in which we witness geologists and seismologists doing the hard investigative work, and determining which fault very probably caused the whole Napa problem. Enjoy!
This is a maclargehuge post in which we witness geologists and seismologists doing the hard investigative work, and determining which fault very probably caused the whole Napa problem. Enjoy!
After the desert of Science of the Physical Creation, I'm hoping Earth Science Fourth Edition doesn't let me down. When I read Christianist textbooks, I expect them to incorporate a bit more God into the instruction, but it seems like no one wants to admit that they think God controls the weather. Sad.
And the beginning of ES4's chapter on Weather is positively crunchy. It's all about wind as an alternative to fossil fuels. The authors insist we come up with better, cleaner solutions to humanity's energy needs. Even the cross-box doesn't gabble about God – it just wants us to consider the benefits and drawbacks of wind power. That's… positively sensible.
It doesn't get any godlier as temperature, pressure, and wind are discussed. They even tell us why wind is named for where it's blowing from rather than the direction it's going: it's because weather vanes point in to rather than away from the wind.
Thanks to ES4, something formerly nonsensical will now be a breeze to remember. Hur hur hur… sorry.
The chart showing us how to determine wind chill is also a nice touch. Very useful.
A sensible explanation of air pressure, winds, and prevailing wind directions ensues. Alas, they repeat the myth of the horse latitudes. Does no one check their etymology?!
In discussing local winds, they forgot to mention the warming powers of a chinook, but that's small taters. I just remember it from Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter. Kinda sticks in your mind after it seems like the world will remain frozen forever, and then this lovely wind appears and you hear dripping from the eaves and yay! everybody won't starve to death in a snow-covered wasteland.
Speaking of wastelands, it sure does feel like we're in a godless desert. But at last, in the Life Connection section on Winds and Migration, we get a little God!
The ability of many kinds of animals to migrate long distances and around seemingly impassible barriers are truly amazing. We don't know if animals had to migrate when they were first created [Migration? In Eden? Srsly?! -ed], but if not, God certainly designed in them the ability to develop this essential skill.
Wait wait wait wait wait. So you're saying here that God either a) created these critters as migratory animals or b) had 'em programmed for it. Now, option A seems bloody stupid – where the fuck would they be migrating to in the Garden of bloody Eden? Hmmm? And why? No seasons, right? Always lovely? So that means option B. But B means God was setting up his creation to fall. Wot a rat bastard.
You know what? I bloody love that above-quoted paragraph. After pages and pages of basic weather, it sticks out like a burning bush, and I hope it cracks at least a few kids over the noggin with a meaningful knuckle and shouts, "Wakey wakey! Your entire fucking religion makes no damn sense!" It's this kind of thing that can cause the hairline fracture that eventually causes the whole edifice of faith to shatter.
The god-talk ceases during the bits on humidity, clouds, and precipitation. There's a wee bit o' religion in the text box on acid rain, where the author says how we need to reduce pollution to get rid of acid rain:
For those sources under our control, we are obligated to reduce these emissions in order to exercise good and wise dominion in the world (Gen 1:28).
Yes, indeedy. Could you give your fellow Christianists at A Beka a ring and 'splain this to them? That would be lovely. The jerkwads think they can run around polluting willy-nilly because God promised never to destroy the earth again (until he destroys it again, of course), so they could do with a stern "good and wise dominion" lecture. The environment thanks you.
Seriously loving their environmentalism. I just wish their obligation extended to recognizing the actual age of the earth and stuff. Oh, and treating their fellow humans better would be lovely. But I haz a hope. If the idea that the environment is something we should take care of got through, perhaps it's just a matter of time before the next generation of BJU kids are on about hippie Jesus and cry happy tears at gay weddings.
And, kudos where due, they get the difference between sublimation and deposition right.
Overall, not a bad chapter. A little light de-godding, and it would be fabulous for any secular school, even one with a great big social conscience. Flipping through the next chapter on Storms and Weather Prediction, it seems to be similar. I mean, they even go so far as to admit we may see more maritime Arctic air masses form as the Arctic ice cap melts.
They've also got what SPC hasn't got: a discussion of orographic precipitation and rain shadows, a subject near and dear to the Pacific Northwest's heart. They also talk about convergence, which is nice. Living in a convergence zone, I can tell you it has a hell of an impact on weather.
Thunder storms, ice storms, and snow storms are very well-described. And – brace yourselves – one of the photos shows a pair of black hands holding the hailstones that shattered a windshield. They actualy acknowledge that people of color exist! This is quite huge for a university that only began admitting some black people in 1975.
The section on tornadoes is lively and informative, with excellent pictures illustrating their power, and the Enhanced Fujita-Pearson Scale is shown and explained. A text box advises kids not to try being storm-chasers themselves, which is very sensible advice. Hurricanes bring on an excess of exclamation points, but aside from that, well done – especially explaining why the same type of storm has different names in different regions ("This policy became standard after studies indicated Asian people didn't heed warnings of storms with unfamiliar Western names."). They accept "culturally appropriate" without a quibble. Dominion doesn't seem to extend to forcing the entire world to revolve around western naming conventions, then. Whether this is because of an acceptance of diversity of the soft bigotry of low expectations, I'm not sure.
They fall at the fence in their little text box about Hurricanes and Global Warming. Well, stumble. They try to play up the whole "we haven't seen definitive evidence of a link yet" thing and downplay the fact that our climate models are saying but we're definitely fucked later in the 21st century – the only question is how fucked? Current consensus hovers somewhere around fairly and very, with a possibility of very-very. But since ES4 wants to decrease emissions anyway, I'm content to let them work themselves gradually up to accepting anthropogenic global warming as reality. They're getting there, and doing some of the right things along the way.
We don't get god-smacked until the end of the hurricane section. Even then, it's not "God sends hurricanes to punish us for Gay Pride parades," but simply saying that "we have a duty both to God and to our neighbors, to understand severe weather so we can prevent loss of life and minimize damage where possible." They emphasize not sacrificing life for property. It's wrapped in godly language, but the sentiment is fully in line with humanist goals.
Their Facets of Meteorology box gives advice on staying safe in storms. They give many practical tips. They don't advise you to pray. The only time they mention God is in the Life Connection bit about animals impacted by hurricanes, and there, they aren't spewing nonsense about God specifically creating special senses or any of that rot. They're saying animals suffer in natural disasters, too, and good stewards care for them like God commanded. These are good things to encourage people to do.
The info on weather maps is good and includes how meteorologists can use GIS for predicting weather and how it helps government officials plan their emergency response to major storms. That was very neat.
Now we learn how we can "Serve God as a research meteorologist." Don't get excited. God isn't mentioned once outside of the title. It's all about what research meteorologists do and how many different ways their research is useful, and what you need to study to become one. Le sigh. I expected more, ES4!
And the book even shows you can be a meteorologist if you're black. What's next, showing lady scientists?
(I snark, but I'm pleased. Very pleased. I love it when we've progressed so far even BJU's trotting to catch up. I'm happy to see at least some influential fundies incorporating good ideas like equality and reducing pollution into their worldview. Perhaps someday they'll catch all the way up.)
They end the chapter with a flourish of God's commands and dominion and stuff, but it seems here like a formality. Meteorology seems one of those branches of science even creationists can't fuck up too badly. I love watching the BJU folks get excited over the technology and encouraging kids to learn more. That passion may lead a few of them to delve deeper and discover actual science, which is so much better than most of the crap they get fed. Even if not, at least creationist kids who pursue a career in meteorology have a chance to make a useful contribution to the world. Shame some of them will use their weatherperson cred to prop up ridiculous bullshit in other scientific disciplines.
But if they read their review questions thoroughly, and really think about #10, we may find more of them losing their faith than we might expect:
Why does God permit destructive storms, especially those that result in huge losses of life?
A dangerous question, that, but one they must confront. I encourage them to consider it carefully.
I'm about to bugger off for the weekend – I'm behind on about nine trillion fronts, and every time I try to catch up, life shoves another pile of Overwhelm™ atop me. So I gotta take some time to chill and also read the bajillion (okay, 12) papers I downloaded pertaining to the Oso Mudslide. The cat is also going through her spring uptick in energy, and considering she's twenty years old, it's something I'll put everything else on hold to enjoy.
Everything except the BJU Earth Science 4th Edition Lab Manual.
I thought I might be disappointed by the thing, but the moment I got it and flipped to a random page, and saw "Explain why the Haber-Bosch Process is an example of humans following God's command in Genesis 1:28," I knew it would be all I'd hoped it would be.
Then I decided to look at exercise 5a, "Where Do Those Dates Come From?" Had to be sure I was getting your money's worth (and thank you for that cash, my darlings – it's allowed me to acquire us yet more fascinating yet horrifying creationist crap). Boy, am I. Because
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
✓construct a chronology using Bible dating information.
✓connect your chronology to a historical date to find the age of the earth.
That, my loves, is the Christianist version of a science lab exercise.
Some of the labs are straightforward and look like quite a bit of fun, like creating a barometer and such. Those things are so bland they didn't even bother to throw goddidit into some of the exercises. But don't worry. You'll get plenty of biblical nonsense when we do labs for stuff like radiometric dating. You can hardly wait, amirite?
A Beka's lab manuals are awaiting me in our apartment office. I may have to break my intended radio silence in order to give you some sneak peeks at those, too.
Alrighty. Must away. I'll have some great stuff for ye soon!
Have I told you lately that A Beka's graphics are a touch tacky? They are. At the start of the "Earth's Weather" chapter, there's a grainy picture of a hurricane from space, and across the bottom are three photos that rather clash. There's an iceberg inside a snowflake shape, a wispy waterfall surrounded by verdant green inside a raindrop shape, and something like a very red-orange Monument Valley inside a sunburst shape. This is the kind of stuff people with stunted imaginations do when they get their hands on a graphic design program.
At least they didn't have Jesus up there making all that weather stuff happen. Small mercies, amirite?
Aside from a questionable definition of climate (which implies the climate of a place doesn't change), the first bits aren't bad. At least there's no god-talk. We have to wait until they've finished with evaporation before we get any of that. Then we learn how "God designed our bodies" to use evaporation to keep ourselves at the right temperature. What, you didn't think evilution did that, did you?
They make a rather silly mistake with sublimation. When something sublimates, it goes directly from solid to gas or vapor with no liquid in-between. Dry ice does that, which is why we get the awesome smoke effect. But A Beka thinks frost is formed by water vapor sublimating. They go on and on about sublimation when what's really happening is the opposite – deposition. Rather annoying mistake, that, but at least they get condensation nuclei right, and god doesn't show up, so yay-ish. Until they babble about water vapor sublimating into ice crystals. Blah.
Cloud types and smog are dealt with without recourse to the supernatural. We're treated to a perfectly reasonable explanation of air masses. So far, so secular.
When we get to fronts, the authors paint a rousing word-picture of battling air masses. They mention that the term "front" was inspired by WWI: what better word for where air masses clash than one that means the "'battle line' along which armies fight." Fascinating, really, and that led me to spelunk the internet to discover if it's true. 'Tis. This is one reason I've actually been enjoying my Christianist textbook reading: I learn bits of trivia. You've gotta fact-check 'em, but Christianists are very good at trivia. This seems to be what they do in place of actual science.
I'll be honest – this section on fronts was great: factual, easy to understand, and rousing. You can't help but feel the energy as air masses collide like gigantic armies. There are bits of these books, like this one, I'd like to lift and install in secular textbooks.
Alas, our good, clean, secular fun can't last more than a few pages in SPC. You can almost see the authors going, "Oh, fiddlesticks, we forgot God!" and then trying to make up for the oversight. As they describe where precipitation comes from, they're keen to inform us that "This movement of water from the sea into the air and then back to the sea, called the water cycle, is the mechanism that God designed to water those portions of the earth located far from the oceans."
Orly? Did he design it before or after the Flood?
They follow up with a Bible box for Eccl. 1:7, because it mentions rivers. It amuses me that they shore up their Christianist cred by quoting the most atheistic book in the Bible.
The god-talk takes a back seat during the subsequent discussion of how different types of precipitation form. But when they start talking hail, they have to bring god on for an encore. Cuz, y'know, "God used hail against the enemies of Israel (Joshua 10:11) and predicts that He will do so once more in the future (Rev. 16:21)." That sits plonk in the middle of the info box on the dangers of hail, rather like your sainted aunt at an orgy: out of place, disconcerting, and swiftly avoided.
This next issue probably isn't caused by being a creationist, although creationism leads to greater ignorance. Still. You'd think they could avoid a numbskull error like saying a storm with a lot of snow is a blizzard – blizzards are defined by winds, not the amount of snowfall. You don't even need snow to fall at all in a blizzard. We'll chalk that gaffe up to SPC being from Florida.
I'm very upset that the whole section on thunderstorms never once mentioned Thor, Indra, or Raijin. Teach the controversy, damn it! And how do we go through a whole section on tornadoes and hurricanes without mentioning they happen because god's punishing people for not hating gays enough? What kinda "Christian Perspective" is this? Sheesh.
After being bludgeoned with rapid-fire facts about how weather is measured and mapped, we're finally allowed to apply our brains to a weather map. It's all rote, though: you don't really have to think to answer. Just like God wants it.
After a brief bit on forecasting, with some dubious do-it-yourself advice, we end abruptly, sans-god. Not even a verse-inna-box. Damn it, A Beka, you promised me a Christian perspective! You're not even trying anymore.
I guess the weather really is a safe subject for the godly and godless to natter on about. Bored now.
You'd think something as basic as the three basic rock types would be hard to screw up. But if there's one thing the authors of ACE excel at, it's abject failure to get anything right. I mean, a stray fact here or there sneaks in, but the poor lonely things are isolated, surrounded by vast tracts of utter wrongness. One wonders what they're doing there.
So. Igneous. After the violence done to volcanoes, I'm sure you can't wait to see what they do to the related rocks.
If you ever want to make batholiths sound boring, quote ACE. They probably haven't got a thesaurus in the office, judging from the number of times they use "large." They say that "large amounts of magma" "may spread out sideways over a large area under Earth's surface." And the "largest area in the United States of such spread-out hardened magma is in central Idaho." They don't mention what these "layers" are actually called, and they make it seem like a huge sill. I don't think they realize these are batholiths, that the huge mass of magma they came from is a diapir, and they don't talk about them slowly cooling. I can guarantee they don't want to discuss how long it takes for 15,000 square miles (not 16,000, ACE) of magma to freeze.
But it's not like they understand the massive amounts of heat involved in things like batholiths. This is clear in the next paragraph, where they say "God used the volcanic action of breaking up the fountains of the deep, along with opening the windows of heaven, to bring about the Flood." You know, a lot of creationists seem to go on about things like epic amounts of volcanic activity and even "runaway subduction" – which is probably a concept too complicated for ACE writers. Not one of the people espousing such extra-biblical claims have dealt with the heat problem. You know, the one that would have boiled Noah & Co.
ACE goes beyond that: they're still babbling about the bloody vapor canopy. Creationists David Rush and Larry Vardiman knew by summer 1990 that a vapor canopy would create temperatures far too high for life on earth. Even Answers in Genesis doesn't spout this shit anymore. But this ACE PACE, revised in 1996, is blissfully oblivious, going on about the wonderful greenhouse the earth was pre-Flood.
Then the numbskulls thoroughly bork their own "theory:"
"Abundant evidence from the past shows us that intense igneous and earth-shifting activity occurred. This evidence indicates that a rapid build-up of intense pressure took place within our earth, causing the walls and ceilings of the conduits to crack, crumble, and then possibly explode as the water in them was turned into steam. Volcanic explosions and eruptions occurring with these disturbances would have caused great quantities of magma from Earth's mantle to rise, together with vast quantities of hot water and steam."
This stuff, per their Flood story, happened all over the world. All the volcanism from 4.5 billion to 4,000 years ago supposedly happened all at once. They talk about enormous amounts of volcanic activity unleashing torrents of hot water and steam, and yet it never occurs to them that the ambient temperature within a wooden boat sailing the boiling Flood would cook everything in it. That's assuming the heat doesn't melt the caulk and sink the damn ship.
It's amazing how very good at bad thinking they are.
It gets worse. While they're vaguely aware of what pumice is, and definitely know it can be used in really powerful soap, awareness is a mere anomaly. Take the very next igneous rock they attempt to describe:
Lava that flows into water cools quickly and hardens to form a second variety of igneous rock – a dense, black, glasslike rock called "obsidian"…. Cliffs of obsidian in Yellowstone National Park are proof that this dry area was once underwater.
Um. No. Obsidian doesn't form underwater, and the Obsidian Cliff at Yellowstone certainly didn't. It was a subaerial (under air) flow of thick, hot rhyolite that flowed from an older rhyolite plateau and filled a valley. There may have been a stream it buried, and it was later planed down by a glacier, but it's never in its life been completely underwater. Also, it's around 180,000 years old, which is about 172,000 years older than the earth according to creationists. Rhyolite flows are generally subaerial features, so no, the pumice and obsidian formed from them are not "convincing pieces of evidence that God used subterranean forces of the inner Earth to overthrow the world because of man's sin."
They then go on to proclaim Mt. Ararat to be a volcano "formed early during the Flood." Their evidence? They say there's pillow lava upon it, and pillow lava forms underwater, ergo gigantic Flood. Checkmate, atheists! There's a few problems with that, even ignoring the age of the rocks. For one thing, the only sources babbling about pillow lava on Ararat are YECs. Quelle surprise. There may indeed be something up there, but I'll bet you a dollar it's either a wee patch o' pillows formed in a lake, or spheroidal weathering.
A discussion of igneous rocks that form underground follows the above nonsense. It consists of a description of granite suitable for 1st graders – in an 8th grade book. They spend more time babbling about the things you can carve out of it than they do discussing what it is. They don't stop their granite art history at Mount Rushmore, either – they also want us to admire the Confederate leaders carved into Stone Mountain, GA, because treason is totes okay when it's
slave owners entrepreneurs trying to protect their right to own human beings state's rights. Oh, yeah – Stone Mountain is quartz monzonite, not granite. And it's not one big boulder, as they claim – it's a monadnock. A pluton. A big fucking mass o' magma that cooled underground, not a gigantic 700-foot high boulder. And the ACE people've cut it short by 125 feet. See what I mean? They can't even get the minor details right.
This following bit of dumbassery, however, might cause the geologically-savvy members of this audience to lose the last of their shit. Don't have anything in your mouth for this next gem o' wisdom:
Another type of igneous rock formed beneath Earth's surface when magma cools is basalt.
Try gabbro, you ignorant gits.
Also, can someone tell me where they're getting this idea that 3-10 miles of basalt underlies the entire lithosphere, including the continents?
This section ends on a pathetic note, where they say that the basalt "foundation of the Earth is permanent." I hate to break this to them, but Psalm 104:1,5 is either metaphorical or a lie. There's this thing called subduction, y'see, that recycles those "permanent" foundations every few hundred million years.
After that mountain range o' wrong, I'm sure you're thinking, "It can't possibly get any worse."
Oh, it can. Wait 'til you see what they've done to sedimentary rocks.
Here is a lolcat to soothe your tortured mind.
Originally published at Scientific American.
You want some Yellowstone? You got some Yellowstone! Amanda Reese is one of my most talented friends, and she's just got her photography website up. After I did a lot of squeeing and awing and OMGing, she graciously agreed to let me filch a few of her images to show you. Because supervolcano. Love it!
Amanda says, "This is a must go to spot in Yellowstone. The insane reflections and endless colors are a photographers dream!" Geologist's dream, too! This is the largest hot spring in the United States and third largest in the world. Kipling called the area where it's found Hell's Half Acre – and lemme tell ya, if hell is this gorgeous, sign me up to go!
I love the patterns of the clouds reflected in the water, and the strange ground beneath. Amazing to think what molten rock, water, and bacteria combine to achieve here.
The water looks cool blue serene, but it's hot! And hidden: "This is a hidden gem in Yellowstone. Very few tourists and was an absolute highlight of our trip. This thermal pool was one of few not roped off so I was able to get very close for this shot." One of the things I love about hot springs, other than their colors, is feeling their warmth (mind you, I don't dabble me toes in the boiling ones!) and knowing that the heat is coming from within the earth. It's a tangible reminder of the power beneath Earth's skin.
Mind you, the cold water around Yellowstone is mind-blowing, too – our own Anne Jefferson reminds us that those cold rivers and streams might move more heat than the flashy geysers and showy hot springs!
"The sky opening up after an afternoon storm." Those crepuscular rays are phenomenal.
All right, I know this isn't geology, but I couldn't resist showing you them:
They look like lovers, don't they just? Actually, they are: "Two flamingos in a battle over food. Even when fighting they still appear so fragile and beautiful."
Amanda has an extraordinary talent for bringing out that fragile beauty in wildlife. She's also amazing with kids and people and architecture and art and… well, basically, if it can be photographed, she'll photograph it marvelously! Go enjoy her site. She'll be accompanying me on some geoadventures this summer, so you'll see more of her round here, too!
And if any of you Puget Sound locals need a photographer, allow me to gently nudge you Amanda's way with a meaningful clearing of the throat.
After A Beka's nonsense about humans being able to do anything they want to the earth's atmosphere because God will save it, it's a bit of a shock to open to the Earth's Atmosphere chapter of our BJU ES4 textbook and see, before anything else, a bit about "Killer Air." Sure, they talk about how God wants to fill the earth right up with people. But they admit air pollution is a problem. They even admit it kills people. And they want their readers to join in fixing it. They don't leave the whole thing up to God.
ZOMG. Is BJU full of environmentalists? (Answer's "not really," but we'll get to that).
Even flipping back a page to see the Unit 5* introduction doesn't whack us in the face with God. They have a blurb from Michael Oard, Meteorologist, heading up this unit on the atmosphere. I know Oard's a firm Young Earth Creationist. I'm currently reading an extensive treatise tearing his dumbassery apart. But all he talks about in ES4 is how weather is complicated and we don't know a lot about it. Unlike SPC, ES4 saves the atmosphere for late in the book, so maybe they figure we know all the featured scientists are YECs by now.
But it's clear from the beginning that, unlike A Beka, they're keeping their indoctrination hammer in hand at all times, despite this rather mild start.
The first thing you notice when you get into the meat of the chapter is that whoever's writing it has a much more informal, engaging style. In comparing our atmosphere to Jupiter, the author says, "Have fun trying to get a breath of fresh air there!" Shame about the "God created our Earth to be inhabited" schlock harshing the mellow towards the end. But the mellow's unharshed by the next paragraph, which sounds like it was written by a leftist. I mean, they're going on about reducing emissions and getting away from fossil fuels! I thought that was heresy.
They have my full and unstinting support right there. I can absolutely get behind the reduce-emissions-and-get-away-from-fossil-fuels agenda, and I'm thrilled to see it here, where I least expected it. More, please!
It's BJU, so of course there's a little cross-box trashing the Urey-Miller experiment, but the main text goes on to present "The Old-Earth Story." They pollute the atmosphere a wee bit by saying secular scientists think everything is "pure chance" and "coincidence," but then they do an honestly great job presenting the secular science understanding of Earth's history, complete with bacteria evolving and pumping the atmosphere full of oxygen. Not a distortion, sneer, or smear throughout.
Nice. I hope that lodges in some young brains and gets the old synapses firing.
Next, "The Young-Earth Story" is told. It's simpler, they say, and then go on to say they "don't know when God created the atmosphere because it is not mentioned in the Creation story in the Bible." They go on to assume God got round to it during all that firmament-forming, because plants would "need carbon dioxide and water vapor to live," not to mention animals and humans definitely needing air to breathe the rest of Creation Week. And, of course, the atmosphere was "very good." So good that "the Fall probably didn't noticeably change the atmosphere very much." But man, all that volcanic activity and changing oceans stuff during the Flood sure did! "We can still see the effects of these changes today," but even though the Flood mucked it up, it's still a pretty great exhibit of God's design.
I invite you to compare and contrast Old vs. Young, and decide for yourselves which has got actual science in it.
You know what's totally sciencey, though? The imaginary space elevator we'll be exploring the atmosphere in! But don't jump in just yet – first, we have to learn about atmospheric chemistry, how it was discovered by several 18th century scientists, and that the abundance of nitrogen is all down to God. Nitrogen has a purpose, people: it's there to dilute the oxygen so we don't all burn to death. EVIDENCE!!!
The cross-box sidebar presents the vapor-canopy idea and points us to Chapter 21, where problems with it will be discussed. They're not having any of that foolishness. Very refreshing.
They settle down to a sober discussion of the homo- and heterospheres. But to make up for three whole paragraphs without god, they have a big ol' box on Larry Vardiman, who nearly lost his faith studying for a PhD in atmospheric science. Those pesky science facts and their refusal to conform to the Bible! But he chose the Bible, to hell with actual science, and went on to become COO for the Institute for Creation Research. Alas for him, he has a modicum of scientific integrity left, and so he's had to accept that the vapor canopy is impossible due to the fact the earth would've boiled under it. ES4 is totally down with booting the canopy. (They're more reticent about his admission that the YEC helium argument is total bullshit.)
But the real spit-take moment comes in the final paragraph of the blurb:
Our culture constantly attacks the Bible and its teachings. If you are ever in a situation that makes you question God's Word, do what Larry Vardiman did. The Bible is rock-solid, worthy of your faith and belief!
And this, class, is why biblical literalists can never be actual scientists. This book is trying to ensure the poor kids reading it will never have a full and rewarding career doing genuine scientific research. They'll never be complete, competent researchers if they take this advice. They'll end up like Larry Vardiman, puttering around finding out that fables aren't science but refusing to admit it at the Institution for Creation Research. It makes me sad.
After that steaming pile, we go back to riding the space elevator (on a carbon nanotube tether!) through the various bits of the atmosphere distinguished by temperature. In fact, it's all facts for this next section, which is about how atmospheric carbon and nitrogen get into living things. God gets a tiny incidental mention in a sidebar about fertilizer, but is otherwise absent. They make up for the lack at the beginning of the "Special Zones in the Atmosphere" part. We're told those special zones "help improve our ability to put dominion into practice." And since they're there, God probably designed them. O-kay.
Amazingly, unlike A Beka's SPC, ES4 admits the ozone layer not only had a hole in it, but was thinning, and this was no bueno. They even admit CFCs cause ozone to break down. But they stop just short of saying that banning CFCs was necessary. "Time will tell," they say, "whether this was good and wise dominion or just scientists using an incomplete scientific model." And they want us to hem and haw and play 20,000 Questions before we get crack-a-lackin' on dealing with climate change.
It's so very hard for these poor fools to accept overwhelming scientific consensus, innit?
Next, we learn that Christian missionary radio stations can use the ionosphere rather than communications satellites to spread their noxious bullshit. Joy. Also, God designed the magnetosphere to shield Earth and its passengers from intense solar radiation. Never mind that lifeless planets have got magnetospheres and Van Allen belts! They're not exactly the same as Earth's! We're special, damn it!
Like SPC, ES4 acknowledges that most of the energy at the surface of the earth comes from the sun. Hello! Not a closed system!! Look, you guys just admitted the sun sustains "virtually all life on Earth"! That means there's energy coming in from outside Earth, which powers this order from disorder thingy, which means you can stop babbling about the Second Law of Thermodynamics now. Wakey wakey!
Oh, who am I kidding? They'll never admit their own facts contradict their thermodynamic nonsense.
They have a little info-box about the amount of solar energy reaching the earth's surface. Unfortunately, they completely bugger the facts about the Krakatau eruption: yes, surface solar illumination was reduced, but not as drastically as they claim. Also, 1883-4 wasn't the "year without a summer." Wrong volcano, numpties.
The end of this chapter is a sad display of cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, the greenhouse effect is real. Thank God that God designed such a great atmosphere, which gives us sunny days without frying us in daytime and freezing us solid at night. That's Gods Love, that is! And we've got to protect that atmosphere. But not so fast on the linking CO2 to global warming! What about water vapor, huh? Why don't the scientists talk about that? (Um – perhaps because humans are pumping enormous amounts of CO2, not H2O, into the atmosphere?). And. And:
Living things need carbon from carbon dioxide. Efforts to reduce carbon dioxide into [sic] the atmosphere may actually be harmful, not helpful.
Apparently, they haven't read SPC, which assures us nature pumps plenty of delicious CO2 into the atmosphere without us. So it's okay, ES4 authors. We don't need to spend the next several decades studying the effects of CO2 while the planet fries. We can reduce our emissions without starving plants, I promise.
Whelp, that was quite the odd mix. At least it appears environmental science is finally beginning to penetrate BJU brains. That's far more than I could have hoped for.
Now if we could just wean them off the literal interpretation of Genesis…
*We're going to be skipping round a bit so that we're comparing topics. All the books have things in a different order from each other, but they've got the same basic stuff, and I thought it best to follow topics rather than chapters. Makes the differences and similarities between them all stark and stuff.
People, it took me days to fact-check the 31 (thirty-one) pages of Science PACE 1086. I'm boggled. I have no idea how they manage to get so much wrong. It doesn't even make sense – I mean, there are several creationist canards, and I know why those are there, but they fail at facts that even Answers in Genesis gets right. It's like they got their information about rocks from a source translated from French, which was translated from Tagalog, which was translated from a paper written in Pig Latin by someone who'd never seen a rock in their life, but heard something about them once.
Take their inability to get famous volcanoes right. Not to mention their myths about medicine.
Like many people, they use erupting volcanoes as a metaphor for holding things in until you explode. Racer relates the story of how a boy at school offended him once, and he said nothing, but brooded. He worked himself into such a lather that he didn't turn the other cheek when the boy offended him a second time. Don't worry – there was forgiveness all round afterward, even from God hisownself! Racer's dad, apparently a true believer in folktales about disease, solemnly informs him that holding in anger causes diseases like toxic goiter (nope), and ulcers (wrongo), and heart problems (well, I suppose one outta three ain't bad). Then he equates the damage angry people cause with the devastation caused by volcanoes. Like Tambora. Which he then proceeds to bork.
Tambora's eruption was huge, yes, but not 150 km³ of material big. Upper estimates are 50 km³ – some put the total as low as 30 km³. The caldera (not crater!) it left is big, but not 11 km – try 6-7 km wide. Weirdly, after exaggerating everything else, they get the height too short by nearly 1000 feet: Tambora lost 4921 feet off its top, not 4000.
As far as their claim that "A tremendous amount of pressure, over 46,000,000 pounds per square inch (3,000,000 kg/cm2), caused the Tambora eruption," they seem to have pulled this from their asses. I can't find that figure anywhere, not even on creationist sites. I'd march into their offices and demand they show me their sources, but I'm not willing to inspect some dude's sphincter.
Mr. Wheeler, who knows bupkiss about ocean floor sediments, then chimes in to tell us that "Subterranean magma is under tremendous pressure because of the heat coming up from Earth's mantle." Yes, he doesn't seem to realize magma is under pressure from the confining strata and dissolved gasses. It's not mantle heat forcing it upward: it's bloody molten rock, it's plenty hot enough on its own, and it migrates upward due because of its lower density. Being all hot and molten means it's more buoyant than the cold, dense country rock around it.
He's also confused about the anatomy of a volcano: magma isn't traveling up a pipe, it's going through a conduit to a vent on the surface. Basic stuff any volcano diagram explains – and, oddly, the ACE writer putting wooden exposition in Mr. Wheeler's mouth knows the terminology for dikes, veins, and sills, so I know they're capable of looking this stuff up.
Of course, they can parrot a few facts they found somewhere, but they don't seem to know what this stuff actually looks like in the real world. Dikes, they tell us, "resemble a thick tree trunk sticking up out of the ground" when the surrounding sediments are worn away. They actually look more like walls – it's volcanic necks that may sorta-kinda look like tree trunks if you close one eye and squint real hard.
All this, of course, gives Mr. Loyalton a biblical tingle in his trousers, and he informs us such talk reminds him of Paul's thorn-in-the-flesh, which God refused to remove. (II Cor. 12:8,9). Racer proves he's becoming a perfect little godbot by finishing Daddy's dubious comparison: "Just as the magma formed a hard igneous rock when it cooled in the weak places in earth's crust, God sometimes allows things to happen in the weak areas of our lives to show His strength." That's right, Racer: your god is a sadistic fucker who likes to torment people at their most vulnerable. Exactly right.
Before we end this little sermon and pass on to yet more nonsense about Mount St. Helens, let us explore the ways in which their further "Facts From Science" are not actually factual. For instance, in the Etna box, we're informed that "valuable fertilizers such as potassium nitrate and various phosphates are found in the volcanic ash that is blown out of the volcano." I'd love to see the scientific paper that gem came from, because I couldn't find a single source that says Etna's ash contains any such things. I did learn a bit about those two salts. Potassium nitrate is the mineral niter, which seems to mostly occur as an evaporate deposit on cave walls. Phosphate in the form of apatite can be present in volcanic ash, granted – but most soils derived from ash need some time and modification to be productive. The volcano isn't erupting ready-made free fertilizer, as this "fact" box implies. It's not bloody Miracle-Gro.
ACE's fact box about Mauna Loa would have us believe it erupts every 3.5 years. The actual average is about every 6, but it varies depending on which timespan you select. I have no idea why they think the average is 1 eruption per 3.5 years since 1950. Including the 1950 eruption and concluding with the first publication of this PACE in 1986, it's only erupted 3 times in 36 years. That's an actual average of every 12 years. I guess their average is an example of creationist math.
Not content to get the facts of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens completely wrong, they return to spew further ignorance. This is just – what is this I don't even:
"Mr. Wheeler, I read in our weekly science newsletter that scientists are watching the crater of Mount St. Helens very carefully," said Racer. "The article stated that a blister, or dome, forms in the bottom of the crater each time the volcano quits erupting. If this dome in the crater begins to grow, scientists know that the volcano is about to erupt again."
So. Much. Wrong.
First: it's not a blister. "Dome" in this case doesn't mean something hollow inside like the Tacoma Dome – this is a ginormous mound of solid lava. It doesn't form after the volcano stops erupting: it's part of the eruption. And, let me put this in a form creationists may understand:
IF THE DOME IS GROWING, THE VOLCANO IS ERUPTING. It is actively erupting. That is why the dome is growing. DOMES DO NOT GROW IF THE VOLCANO ISN'T ACTUALLY ERUPTING.
Don't make me talk about the fact they illustrated the concept of a dome by showing a drawing of a volcanic neck. Okay? We'll get to the remainder of their ignorance about igneous next week. Right now, I am D-U-N done.
After the absurdities of ACE and the travesty that is Bob Jones University's idea of the earth sciences, it is almost with relief that I turn back to SPC. Oh, granted, it is also full of creationist crap – but there were some useful, even educational, bits, and I hope to find more.
Alas, my hopes are dealt a blow by the introduction to Unit I: Meteorology and Oceanography. Beneath the facing photo of sailboats, Psalm 115:16 sez God gave humans the earth, and the first sentence of the chapter is, "God created the earth's atmosphere…"
Let us pause here to observe just how such a statement can send you haring off in the wrong direction.
We're assured that the atmosphere's got all the right stuff for people and animals and plants. Inquiry shuts down here: you're left with nothing to do but describe what that right stuff is. You don't ask the critical questions that can lead to so much discovery: why is it the right stuff? Was it always this way? Could it have been another?
Nope. God made it this way because it's the right stuff for the living things he made. That's the way he made it, and of course it wasn't ever different. Turn off the lights and lock up the lab: we're done here.
Many true facts about the atmosphere are hurled at us. Creationists love facts: they feel all sciencey when they recite them. After lotsa facts, we're told, "Oxygen and carbon dioxide are kept in balance through God's provision," which probably isn't a testable hypothesis. (However, if we can determine what the proper balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide are, we can certainly find out if they are in balance, and if they are not, we know either that there is no God or he's a lazy SOB who doesn't do his job.)
SPC manages to avoid god-talk for several paragraphs while describing the troposphere and stratosphere, but loses its restraint when it comes time to talk about the ozone layer. That's the shield God gave us to protect us from UV, you see. Also, apparently, doctors only recommend that people at lower latitudes wear sunscreen.
I hope the poor fools have more sensible doctors in real life. I may disagree with nearly everything they teach and believe, I think their views are toxic, and I want to see their numbers dwindle, but by figuring out fundamentalism is a crock and leaving it for happier worldviews, not because they're all dying of skin cancer.
The next several pages, which describe the rest of the atmosphere, are factual and god-free. It's about what you'd expect from a secular textbook – I kept having flashbacks to my Physical Geography class, although that was college level and had Jim Bennett to make it more interesting.
Section 2.2, Heat and the Atmosphere, begins well – the first paragraph in which we're told "large hurricanes release the energy of 400,000 atomic bombs in a single day" grabs the old attention. But since they conclude that all this fantastic energy comes from the sun, I'm left with a question: how the fuck do creationists not get that Earth isn't a closed system? I mean, seriously. The proof that it isn't is right there in their own book.
They even understand the greenhouse effect. They manage to describe all about insolation and perihelion vs. apehelion and the greenhouse effect, including some of the primary greenhouse gasses like CO2, without going goddy once. Then they go completely off the rails in their "Global Warming: Fact or Fancy?" special segment. Seriously. They hit all the AGW Denier/Fundie Christian high points, like Nature contributes lots more CO2 than humans do! And freakouts over national sovereignty, and temperatures fluctuate anyway, so there! They even hit the senatorial dumbshit high point by declaring that more CO2 is just awesome for the plants! Then they finish with this jaw-dropping statement:
As Christians, we can rest in God's promise that "while the earth abideth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." (Gen. 8:22) While it is our responsibility to do all within our power to protect the world God has given us, we must always remember that the fate of the earth rests in the hands of its Creator.
You know, I peeked ahead in our BJU book, and guess what? They're actually somewhat sensible about this shit. They don't exactly admit that we're fucking our shit up, but they're all about the getting off the fossil fuels, cleaning up the environment, and keeping the pollution down to a minimum, because that's what sensible and responsible stewards should do. I don't want to give too much away here, but let's just say I can see myself having a sensible, practical conversation with a BJU ES4 student about ways we can reduce our impact on the environment, even though we agree on virtually nothing else. But SPC students?
SPC's no more than I expected. I'm finding it interesting, though, that in this chapter, most of the God crap has been corralled off to the side. The main text sounds like it was written by a sensible secularist. We're treated to a reasonable description of how heat is distributed around the planet, and general atmospheric circulation. After a long and helpful description of how high and low pressure regions and the Coriolis effect, they seem to remember they're a Christian textbook and pop a little box with Eccl. 1:6 in it, but it's easily ignored. The only bit that's a bit off in all the talk of winds is that they get the etymology of the horse latitudes sorta wrong, repeating the folk notion that it was about actual dead horses, when the more likely explanation is a bit more bizarre. But really, it's of critical importance only to people who care deeply about etymology, so I can give that a pass (sorry, etymologists!).
And… that's it. Wot an anticlimax. This is practically public school education, if you skip the goddy bits at the beginning, and avoid the special sections on the ozone layer and global warming. I feel cheated. I didn't even have to abuse my liver to survive this!
But I'm also glad the kiddies are getting a bit of good, useful instruction on how the world works with only a few spots of right-wing indoctrination. Hopefully, enough of a solid foundation will be laid for some of them to go on to get a real science education later, complete with the truth about ozone layers and AGW.
Or maybe we're just being lulled into a false sense of security before being hit with the indoctrination hammer…
So, we've now endured two Christianist textbooks. Let's see how a genuine secular earth science textbook compares.
Well, for one thing, Glencoe Science Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe (GEU) is written by a whole lotta actual professional science people, plus National Geographic, plus it relied on a ton of science consultants, and was reviewed and tested by a cadre of teachers. Like science, it was a collaborative effort.
Millions of years, in reference to a rock formation, is front and center in the opening of the Unit Intro. And no qualifications or compromise: evidence sez millions of years, we accept (provisionally, o' course: this is genuine science, and always has room for revision as new data comes in). There's an activity right up front to help kids understand scientific communication, and practice communicating accurately. One of the major differences between this book and the Christianist texts is the fact that mistakes and miscommunication aren't attributed to deception, but presented as unintentional. This book already thinks better of people than fundie Christians do.
All of the books have a section explaining the major areas of earth science, including astronomy – but this is the only one that said flat-out that Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Earth systems – the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere – are described with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of all things. We humans are acknowledged as part of the biosphere. This is probably what leads creationists to scream "BIAS!" – we're not set apart as special. But it's not like the text says we're nothing, either, so screw that noise.
There's an extensive explanation of what technology is, and how science has led to so much awesomeness. This segues nicely into a careful explanation of the scientific method, with a note saying the steps can, in fact, vary. The diagram for it is in the form of a puzzle, which is an excellent touch, and captures its complexity better than the other books' simplistic interpretation. Experiments are explained, including independent and dependent variables. Students get to practice science with a mini lab measuring the effect of sunlight on the temperature of containers filled with soil versus water. Data, we're informed, must be formatted so it can be studied, and (importantly!), if the data doesn't match the hypothesis, it's the hypothesis that's gotta go. And just to drive the point home, the book once again tells us that the scientific methods aren't rigid.
I found GEU's discussion of measurement far superior to ES4, but SPC actually did a better job here: much more thorough and interesting. But, GEU has lots more applied exercises to show how measuring works. It explains what temperature is, too: the measure of the average vibrations of particles. This was helpful.
Communication gets emphasized again. We're told that "one important goal of science is to make results available to others." Lab reports, graphs, and such are discussed. So are research papers. But my gosh, the book somehow fails to mention you can publish in "scientific" journals such as The Creation Research Society Quarterly. Gee whiz, such bias (against journals not accepted as scientific by any actual scientific organization anywhere)!
Models are then discussed. Oddly enough, they do not go on endlessly about how worldview leads to the model. Instead, they talk about how models can change based on the data you're gathering – like early astronomers finding data that told them the geocentric model was wrong, hence leading them to adopt the heliocentric model. You know, ES4 would've told us it was all a matter of worldview. (I wonder if our Christianist texts will end up questioning heliocentrism later? After all, the Bible implies the world's flat…)
Next, theories and laws are correctly defined. O joyous day! GEU describes the differences and relationships between the words in a manner assures we get how scientist use those terms.
An especial delight is when cubits are mentioned in a geolab sidebar. They're brought up only to explain they aren't very useful these days, and to introduce lotsa measuring activities. The chapter concludes with a nice section on how medical imaging technology has allowed us to study dinosaur fossils like Willo and Sue. Fun and interesting!
A lot of differences other than the distinct lack of Bible babble stand out: one of the most obvious to me is that scientists aren't overwhelmingly referred to as "he." Pronouns are actually thin on the ground in this book, and the plural seems to be preferred unless discussing a specific named scientist. Kids aren't dictated to as much. Things don't feel so rigid, and there's a hell of a lot more hands-on.
I bloody love this book. It's so refreshing to get straight-up science after all that Christianist propaganda. And there's nothing in here to prevent a kid from being religious, even fundamentalist, if they want to be. Well, aside from the overwhelming data against a young Earth. But it's not science's fault God was such a crappy creator he couldn't make that clear, now, is it?
Right. With that reality check, it's time to plunge back into the whacky world of good Christianist education…


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Bay Street Theater announces the success of its 23rd Annual Summer Gala, chaired by longstanding patrons of the theater and the arts, Christine Wachter-Campbell & Bill Campbell, and Pia & Jimmy Zankel, which took place in Sag Harbor at the Long Wharf last weekend on July 12, 2014 to benefit Bay Street's Scott Schwartz New Directions Fund, which supports a myriad of new programming initiatives and educational offerings. Scroll down for photos from the festivities! (more...)
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Do I keep my 14 y/o daughter away from 17 y/o bf after I found out they had sex, unprotected at that!
After a lot of debate within myself, I allowed my 14 y/o daughter to date 17 y/o bf. Only at my house where I knew they were supervised. After couple months they wanted to go to his parents house, I spoke with the mom and she assured me they would NEVER be outside of her sight. I trusted the mom as well as the teens. We had many discussions about personal issues and they were very cooperative & gave me their word. In a discussion w/ my daughter I found out they had been having UNPROTECTED sex. I stopped the relationship, took her cell phone. I found out they met the other morning bfore school & had sex at park across the street, unprotected. I took her to the Dr, putting her on birth control, but still not allowing her to see him. She is crying all the time, seems depressed and I dont know what to do, do I keep them apart, or allow them to see each other at MY HOUSE only? Is she going to continue to sneak and end up getting in trouble? She has been a great kid, never in trouble, is not allowed to go to parties, games for school ect.. Please help...In Topics: Teen issues, Teen sexuality and dating
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That's a perfect boat you linked to, great nick and does all the things you spec'd and sitting in Tarbert by the look of it.
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On one of my trailers, the cross beam is welded on.
Even the 250kg units are pretty stiff. My trailers have foam lined cradles to support the hull, I'm upgrading these to thicker foam.
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Are those 250kg units you speak of 250 kgs each or a pair?
Mine fitted to my trailer gave a soft ride. I could deflect the suspension by merely pushing down on the gunwhales.
Even if the trailer has integral units you can always buy mounting plates and u-bolts to attach softer units externally. You could tack-weld the plates under the existing beam.
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My printer is the HP Photosmart D110, I just got it today, set it up and it worked fine. Turned it off and turned it back on and I get the Incompatible Print Cartridge screen. It says to refer to to status screen on your computer for details... My computer screen says to see printer front to resolve the condition... SO my question is what do I do?? I did take out the ink and put them back in.. Im using the ink that came in the box with the printer and it says its the correct stuff to use..
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Do you know which cartridge (color or mono) the error message is for? If you remove the cartridges one at a time and close the printer door, does the message go away? If so, this could indicate a problem with the cartridge and you'll need to contact Phone Support for a possible replacement.
Have you tried cleaning the cartridge contacts?.... as there could be some debris there that is preventing a good connection with the printer contacts.
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I did try and take one out at a time and it still didnt work...
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I got a hold of the support and they are sending new ink cartridges.... it took over 30 min to figure it out but at least it isnt the printer..
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Upon installing, the printer says the ink cartidges are INCOMPATIBLE and will not print, copy, or anything else. It will not let me even see if the SETUP is adjustable for different ink cartridges.
Looking through the blogs I see the printer should use these cartridges. How do I get the printer to recognize them?
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You will need to Contact HP to request a "Regionalization Reset". There should not be any charge for this, it is covered as part of the cartridge warranty. You will need to have access to your computer and printer while on the line with HP. You will also need to have a set of cartridges for the new region, once the reset is complete cartridges from the original region will no longer work. HP's web page on the subject is here.
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My D110 works fine on 2 XP machines and 1 Windows 7 (64 bit), but I get the "incompatible Print Cartridge" error on my Windows 7 (32 bit) machine. Have to check the don not show 6 different times then the print job executes fine.
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Printer is saying incompatible Print cartridge. We had the cartridges refilled at Costco 2 months ago and all of a sudden it is saying incompatible print cartridges. You said if you clean the contacts it might correct the problem. What do you use to clean the contacts?


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