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- 06/02/10
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NEXT - This year’s NEXT conference just wrapped up and all of the sessions are now available for download. They include sessions by Josh Harris, Kevin DeYoung, Mark Dever, D.A. Carson and others.
Summer Reading - I always look forward to Al Mohler’s summer reading list and will definitely be reading at least a few of the titles he has listed this year. As usual the list is full of books dealing with history.
A Disaster With Many Fathers - Here’s an interesting bit of writing from the Washington Post: “Here’s my question: Why were we drilling in 5,000 feet of water in the first place? Many reasons, but this one goes unmentioned: Environmental chic has driven us out there. As production from the shallower Gulf of Mexico wells declines, we go deep (1,000 feet and more) and ultra deep (5,000 feet and more), in part because environmentalists have succeeded in rendering the Pacific and nearly all the Atlantic coast off-limits to oil production.” While on the subject of the oil spill, this article from the Times offers a good perspective on our faith in technology.
They Danced - Another touching article from Ali’s African Adventures.
Free Audio Book of the Month - This month Christian Audio is Francis Chan’s Forgotten God as a free download.
Book Deal - Reformation Heritage Books has packaged four books (three of them by Joel Beeke) for only $10.
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Comments (7)
That NYT article you linked said this. “Americans have long had an unswerving belief that technology will save us.” We can also say the same thing about science.But, as we know, technology and science only carry mankind so far. they will carry us to the door, right to the threshold, and then deposit us. They can never answer the Big Questions. They can never meet the longings of my soul.
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Ah, I get it, it was environmentalism that caused the oil disaster. Because environmentalists are really clamoring for off-shore drilling.
Ah, I get it, it was environmentalism that caused the oil disaster. Because environmentalists are really clamoring for off-shore drilling.
Yes, that’s exactly what the author of the article was saying. Yeesh. What he was saying, as is quite clear, is that environmentalism contributed to the disaster by forcing oil companies to drill in very difficult and dangerous places.
the problem i have with the oil situation is that we act as if we must have that oil or else…..I don’t necessarily buy into that, but that’s another argument for another time.
At the very least, I think it’s safe to say that nobody really had a clue how to deal with a gushing oil well in this depth of water. If they did, it would be capped right now. That’s the part that’s especially frustrating.
Instead, those of us in the gulf region get to see our home areas and potentially our livelihoods destroyed. But hey, at least we can pack up and leave with a cheaper tank of gas in the SUV.
I hear those complaints but they dont ring true. For you in the south, half of you are employed by the oil industry. And a quarter of you make you living supplying the oil industry. A large part of the boat traffic supports the oil industry. The fishermen and the tourist folks are bearing the distruption to their way of life, but a large part of the south is IN the oil business so it is kind of like complaining about it, but your father works on a rig.
Sure, it is terrible what is happening but then ditto for steel towns, or train towns. Hard to make a living from somthing and then complain about an accident
Tim,I have several friends who are engineers in the offshore oil and gas business. Within days of the well blowout they said that this was going to be a huge problem due to the 5000’ depth of the well from the water’s surface. They indicated that had this happened in shallower water the remedy would come much easier, and that a big part of the reason that so much “deep water” drilling is happening is environmental rules. Makes you wonder.
Wow Bob, I didn’t know that since everybody I’m related to and almost everybody I know is in the South, but not one person works in the oil business or a business that supports it….
And to be perfectly honest, none of that matters to me. That isn’t the point. If it wasn’t the oil industry it would be something else employing people. The economic argument on this kind of thing has never been compelling to me.