podcast - Dr. David Snoke, pt. 2 http://intelligentdesign.podomatic.com/entry/2014-03-21T14_55_33-07_00 bornagain77

The Bible teaches us that God as the Trinity has enjoyed relationship between the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit from all eternity; love is intrinsic to his being. Statement of Principles of the Christian Scientific Society

Why do they put such idiocy in their founding principles? Their Trinity-worship is not relevant to the "research" they are doing... This seems suspect. JWTruthInLove

OT: The Goldilocks principle: New hypothesis explains Earth's continued habitability - March 19, 2014 Excerpt: Researchers from USC and Nanjing University in China have documented evidence suggesting that part of the reason that the Earth has become neither sweltering like Venus nor frigid like Mars lies with a built-in atmospheric carbon dioxide regulator – the geologic cycles that churn up the planet's rocky surface. Scientists have long known that "fresh" rock pushed to the surface via mountain formation effectively acts as a kind of sponge, soaking up the greenhouse gas CO2. Left unchecked, however, that process would simply deplete atmospheric CO2 levels to a point that would plunge the Earth into an eternal winter within a few million years during the formation of large mountain ranges like the Himalayas – which has clearly not happened. And while volcanoes have long been pointed to as a source of carbon dioxide, alone they cannot balance out the excess uptake of carbon dioxide by large mountain ranges. Instead, it turns out that "fresh" rock exposed by uplift also emits carbon through a chemical weathering process, which replenishes the atmospheric carbon dioxide at a comparable rate. "Our presence on Earth is dependent upon this carbon cycle. This is why life is able to survive," said Mark Torres, lead author of a study disclosing the findings that appears in Nature on March 20. Torres, a doctoral fellow at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI), collaborated with Joshua West, professor of Earth Sciences at USC Dornsife, and Gaojun Li of Nanjing University in China. While human-made atmospheric carbon dioxide increases are currently driving significant changes in the Earth's climate, the geologic system has kept things balanced for million of years. http://phys.org/news/2014-03-goldilocks-principle-hypothesis-earth-habitability.html Moreover, contrary to what is widely believed, the earth is far more 'forgiving' of man's presense than what is presupposed: Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected: Nov. 2009 Excerpt: New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now. This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091110141842.htm (i.e. along with many other lines of evidence like this, it seems as if the earth knew we were coming) bornagain77

Of somewhat related note is the most recent podcast of DI: podcast - Dr. Snoke, professor of physics and President and Founder of the Christian Scientific Society, discusses how he got started in science as a career, his research in the field of physics, and his interest in the science of life's origins and intelligent design. http://intelligentdesign.podomatic.com/entry/2014-03-19T16_13_48-07_00 bornagain77