Note: If you have not read the earlier posts about the Star of Bethlehem, you might want to begin with the December 15 post, His Star in the Easts. I think you can see how astrology could have played a role in the coming of the magi. I hope you can also see that it’s [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Emmanuel
Posted in Astronomy, tagged astrology, Emmanuel, magi, Star of Bethlehem on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
December 25
Posted in Astronomy, tagged astrology, magi, Star of Bethlehem on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The wise men might have come on December 25.
His Birthday
Posted in Astronomy, Scripture, tagged Jesus' birthday, Josephus, Star of Bethlehem on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jesus’ birth year and month, September of 3 BC, can be known with reasonable clarity on combined historical and scriptural evidence.
His Star in the Easts
Posted in Astronomy, tagged astrology, magi, Star of Bethlehem on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“In the easts” means in the sky of astronomical risings — the magi traveled west. It’s not an affirmation of astrology, and we can’t calculate the birthdate of Jesus from this disorderly science.
Yellowstone 640,000 years ago
Posted in geology, Meteorology, tagged long-term weather factors, Yellowstone on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yellowstone supervolcano gave us a caldera 50 miles long and 30 miles wide. It also contributed substantially to the ice age that was due about that time.
Solar forcing
Posted in geology, Meteorology, tagged milankovitch cycles, solar forcing on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Solar forcing is the measure of the solar heating we have at different latitudes. The Milankovitch cycles bring about large differences in the magnitude of solar forcing.
Long term weather influences: – Precession
Posted in Meteorology, tagged long-term weather factors, Mlankovic, precession on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long term weather trends are affected by the revolutions of the Earth on its axic and by the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. It’s very complicated, and very long term, but it is important.
Long term weather influences – obliquity
Posted in Meteorology, tagged axial tilt, ice ages, obliquity on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Axial tilt, or obliquity, is a second long-term effect on world climate, tending towards colder climates when the obliquity is greater.
Long-term weather factors – eccentricity
Posted in Meteorology, tagged eccentricity, long-term weather factors, Milutin Milanković on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Milutin Milanković figured out that changes in the elliptical character of the Earth’s orbit could cause times of greater climatic coldness.
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