After 70 Years of Communist Rule, Military Parade Brings Out The Big Guns

In 1989, this tank man defied the army. Image courtesy of Jeff Widener (The Associated Press), fair use doctrine.




Joel Kontinen

China will hold one of its biggest ever military parades on Tuesday as part of its celebrations for 70 years of Communist Party rule, and Beijing is promising to show off a host of new home-grown weaponry.

What equipment might we see on display, and why does China now have the second biggest military budget in the world?

In 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People’s Republic of China.

However, the fate of Chinese has not been all to prosper all sections of society. The Cultural Revolution brought despair to hundreds if not millions and, the communists sought to destroy Christianity.

Tiananmen Square some 30 years ago, when approximately 2,000 students lost their lives. Now, the effect is on Hong Kong, where students are protesting and where students are protesting, and China took down 1,200 crosses on churches.

Sources:

The day China became communist. BBC News (29 September).

Neill, Alex., 2019. China anniversary: Military parade brings out the big guns. BBC News (30 September).

Shrimp Avoid Becoming Meals by Intelligent Design

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Joel Kontinen

Being a eat parasites and dead skin off of fish, eels, and turtles, scrimp cleaning cleaner can be risky business, in particular when some of the clients have a taste for scrimp, they eat parasites and dead skin off of fish, eels, and turtles.

The scrimp do an intelligent design trick: they do a dance to show that they’re only serving the client.

Source:

Frederick, Eva. 2019. How do fish-cleaning shrimp avoid becoming meals? They do a little dance. Science (19 September).
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Why Did Human Ancestors Kill A Bird One Million Years Ago?

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Joel Kontinen

In a new Science story,"in a cave in present-day Israel, a human ancestor removed the feathers from the wing of a swan—and researchers still don’t know why. A team of archaeologists examined bird bones found in Qesem Cave, a paleolithic site about 10 kilometers from Tel Aviv, Israel."

It appears that the bird was not needed for food - but just for decorative purposes. but the researchers claimed that archaic hominins made it.

However, the Israel daily Haaretz, that initially published the story, said, “New evidence found at Qesem Cave, a Paleolithic site occupied on and off from about 420,000 years to 200,000 years ago, indicates that the hominins living there were going to some effort to remove the feathers from their prey.”

So, there is a time lapse of over a half million years. But Darwinians with their millions of years cannot be that precise.

Source:

Frederick, Eva. 2019.WWy did a 1-million-year-old human ancestor collect feathers in Israel? Science (25 September).

UFOs Are Real –And the Government Would Not Let You See Them

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Joel Kontinen

The media are full of stories of UFOs but the government will be accepting them.

“In December 2017 and March 2018, The New York Times released three allegedly declassified videos showing U.S. Navy pilots trailing some unidentified flying objects.”

The UFOs can be seeing viewing them as hypersonic speeds, just like they’re fallen angels.
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However, the authorities do not want us to believe that they are alien beings on them gave us life.

Some people might think that UFOs are our way to salvation, and that they gave us life by a mysterious Darwinian way. UFOs are not needed for life. Only He can give live to us.

Source:

Specktor, Brandon. 2019. UFOs Are Real — and You Were Never Supposed to See Them, Military Official Says. .Live Science (17 September).

Do Americans Believe in Conspiracy Beliefs?

Some people think this is a fake picture, Buzz Aldrig lading on the moon. Image courtesy of NASA.




Joel Kontinen

Some believes are are false. No matter what authority propagates them.

A few science stories are false, especially the ones dealing with Darwinian evolution.

Now, a lot of the news making rounds in the news is false. Especially the ones dealing with the climate and evolution. No one can fathom how inanimate rocks became people - that is what Darwinians believe all the time, or the magic that brought nan into being.

Source:

Vittert, Liberty. 2019. Are Conspiracy Beliefs on the Rise? Live Science. (20 September).

ICR | The Dallas Museum of Science and Earth History

Has now opened on 2nd September.

Denisovan Woman Gets Her First Portrait Thanks to DNA from Her Bone

Does this look like a upright Ape? Fair use doctrine.




Joel Kontinen

Writing in live Science, Brandon Spector calls Denisovans (and us) upright apes. However, the picture of these apes looks nothing like an ape.

It is the same old story that happened when a scientist made a replica of a Neadersthal girl. It looked quite a bit like the ones we see now on our streets.

They made a replica of the woman from her bones.

Spector reminds us of DNA methylation. "Methylation occurs when chemicals containing one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms — also known as methyl groups — bind to certain DNA molecules. While this binding doesn't change the underlying DNA sequence, it can interfere with the way that specific genes are expressed. Certain patterns of methylation can indicate whether a cell has cancer, for example, and can lead to anatomical deformities."

We believe that and the Neanderthals and Denisovans were people just like us, created by God in the beginning.

The Neandersthals lived in Europe during the ice age following the Flood of Noah and it seems the Denisovans where their closest comrades.


Source:

Specktor, Brandon, 2019. Extinct Denisovan Woman Gets Her First Portrait Thanks to DNA from Her Pincy Bone. Live Science (18.9.).

A Majority Of Pet Owners Prefer Their Animals To Their Children

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Joel Kontinen

The findings of a new survey may be great news for pets… and bad news for kids. A survey in which 2,000 pet owners voiced their support for their pets.

In an American study, the survey showed that a majority of pet owners favoured their pets more than their children. According to it, “78 percent of pet owners consider their animal to be part of the family, while 68 percent consider them to be people.”

Moreover, over a half of the respondents thought that their pet seems to understand them better than their best friend.

As the Bible says, it is not good for man to be alone. However, the study shows that they took an evolutionary task to it. And sometimes human rights can become human wrongs.




Source:

Hollan, Michael, 2019. a third of pet owners prefer their animals to their children, survey finds. Fox News (15 September).

Fisherman Reels in A Dinosaur-Like Fish With Huge Eyes

Oscar Lundalh with the fish we got. image courtesy of BNPS, Fair use doctrine.




Joel Kontinen

An angler had big surprise for reeling in a fish that looked like a dinosaur. It looked weird and it had huge eyes.

The 19.year old man, Oscar Lundalh, was hoping to get halibut, but he got this ratfish instead in north Norway.

He almost left his vessel when he saw the fish that he had reeled in for half an hour, but the fish did not survive. He took it home to eat it, saying that it tasked a lot like cod.

This fish shows that today's fishes can be quite extraordinary. The one who made them knew what he was doing, even below the surface.

Source:

Fisherman gets shock as he reels in 'dinosaur-like' fish with huge eyes.2019. Sky News (15 September).

Cambrian Creature Had a Multitool Head

Mollisonia plenovenatrix. Image courtesy of. Joanna Liang, Royal Ontario Museum, fair use doctrine.



Joel Kontinen

Cambrian animals could be versatile and have astounding features. The features show how they went on with their life.

"A spiky, armor-plated walking tank with bulging eyes, a shield on its butt and a head like a Swiss army knife scuttled along the seafloor more than 500 million years ago, snapping up prey with a deadly pair of mouth pincers called chelicerae.

Researchers discovered astoundingly well-preserved fossils of these thumb-size predators in 2012, and a new study recently described the creatures, determined to be a previously unknown species now dubbed Mollisonia plenovenatrix. Scientists have found dozens of fossils of this species in recent years that include preserved soft tissue of the mouthparts, along with the animals' multiple legs and bulbous eyes."

The findings were published on September 11 in the journal Nature.

Cambrian creatures can be amazing . They show us that God is the originator of this all.


Source:

Weisberger, Mindy. 2019. Nightmare Creature Had Egg-Shaped Eyes, Swiss Army Knife Head and a Butt Shield. Live Science (11 September).

Giant Pterosaur Described in Canada

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Joel Kontinen


A newly described species of giant pterosaur, called Cryodrakon boreas, has been discovered in Canada.

It had the a wingspan extending about 10 meters (33 feet) from tip to tip, “making it comparable in size to its monstrous azhdarchid cousin Quetzalcoatlus, researchers reported in a new study.”

Secular scientist believe it lived some 77 million to 74 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.

fossils form when there are “buried in layers of sediment and locked away from bacteria that break down organic matter.”.

“Many of the best-preserved remains from millions of years ago belonged to animals that lived near seas or rivers, and pterosaurs at this time (including Cryodrakon) mostly lived inland, David Hone explained.

"And their bones are insanely thin, so they are very rare," he added. "We're lucky we have as much good material as we do."

Big animals were not thought to live near the poles. The general way with them driving into the North could be the Flood of Noah’s time.

The findings were published online September 9 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Suorce:

Weisberger, Mindy. 2019. Meet 'Cold Dragon of the North Winds,' the Giant Pterosaur That Once Soared Across Canadian Skies.
Live Science (10.10.).

Thinking Is a Hard Problem For Darwinists

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Joel Kontinen

What do we d with brains? Thoughts deny the Darwinian idea of life from scratch.

Darwinian Psychologists deny consciousness and free will – and have to resort to storytelling.

And, Darwinian theorists have to do with rock personalities.

And, then, our brains will help us to learn things quickly.

Live Science featured an article in which two scientists wondered why we think. They did not reach a conclusion. However, “Most thoughts are actually happening, in the background without us being aware of them, they say and ‘there's not really a way to turn these things off,’ Michael Halassa said.

Yes, it seems that thinking is a difficult problem for Darwinians.


Source:

Saplakoglu, Yasemin. 2019. Can We Ever Stop Thinking? Live Science (7. 9.).

A Rare, Two-Headed Rattlesnake Fond In New Jersey

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Joel Kontinen

This might just be the think the Darwinists were hoping for- a snake with two heads, That’s is, they have gene duplication and hox genes, so why not?

However, not even Darwinists expect this to be so. “Bob Zappalorti, the CEO of the Herpetological Associates of Burlington County, an environmental consulting company that studies endangered reptiles and birds, among other animals, told the news outlet the snake ‘probably wouldn’t be able to survive in the wild.’”

”According to National Geographic. The rare genetic abnormality can hinder the snake’s ability to catch prey.

“Two-headed snakes are rare and typically do not survive for long in the wild, Snakes operate a good deal by smell, and if one head catches the scent of prey on the other's head, it will attack and try to swallow the second head,” National Geographic explained, adding two-head snakes develop similarly to Siamese twins when an embryo does not properly split into two.

Source:

Farber, Madeline. 2019. Rare, two-headed rattlesnake found in New Jersey 'probably wouldn't survive in the wild'. Fox News (6 September).

Palestinian Professor: There Is No Archaeological Proof of a Jewish Temple In Jerusalem

Berthold Werner, Public Domain.




Joel Kontinen

A Palestinian professor has said that there is no archaeological evidence for a Jewish museum in Jerusalem.

"Dr. Ghassan Weshah told Felesteen, a Gazan news service, in an interview this week that there was no archaeological evidence of a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.

One of the biggest lies of the Zionists with regard to the Al-Aqsa Mosque is that it was built on the ruins of the Temple, which was destroyed on August 21, 586 BCE,” Prof. Weshah said in the interview. “This is a false statement. There is no other building under the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

This is a false statement. the rock declare that the Bible is true or that Jerusalem isn’t the capital of Israel.

“The Waqf began built the Marwani Mosque in what was formerly called Solomon’s Stables in 1996, without a permit and in gross violation of the status quo agreement signed two years earlier in which Israel granted custodianship to Jordan.,, The builders used heavy equipment to clear the site, destroying artefacts of immense archaeological importance and damaging the structural integrity of the southern wall of the Temple Mount. The construction resulted in over 400 truckloads of material containing artefacts being removed from the Temple Mount and dumped in landfills."

"In the 1970’s,the beams were checked by a team of Israeli botanists who determined that most of them were cedars from Lebanon and some are Cyprus trees. They carried out Carbon-14 tests on several of the timbers. Some were determined to have been felled about 1,340 years ago which is approximately when al Aqsa Mosque was originally built. One cypress beam was determined to be was found to be 2,600 years, or around 630 BCE, around 50 years before the In the 1970’s, the beams were checked by a team of Israeli botanists who determined that most of them were cedars from Lebanon and some are Cyprus trees. They carried out Carbon-14 tests on several of the timbers. Some were determined to have been felled about 1,340 years ago which is approximately when al Aqsa Mosque was originally built. One cypress beam was determined to be was found to be 2,600 years, or around 630 BCE, around 50 years before the destruction of the First Temple."

Jerusalem also hides many archaeological evidences that support the Bible.


Source:

Berkowitz, Adam Eliyahu. 2019. Palestinian Professor: Bible Lied About Jewish Temple on Temple Mount, No Archaeological Proof Breaking Israel News (6 September).

On Icy Moons, Alien Life May Go with the Flow of Ocean Currents

Enceladus. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.




Joel Kontinen

Oceans might host life. This is a discovery made by some scientists, who see a world teeming with life in our solar system.

T"These oceans are really interesting in and of themselves," Krista Soderlund, an expert on planetary fluid dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin and author of the new research, told Space.com. "You often are first drawn to a satellite by what it looks like on its surface, but I think that what is going on beneath the surface is just as exciting and interesting."

She is now writing on Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede and on Saturn's moons Enceladus and Titan.

“Her calculations suggest that the oceans on Enceladus and perhaps Titan could host currents in alternating bands and particularly strong heat flow near the poles. Europa, on the other hand, because its spin is less of a factor, seemed to sport the most noticeable heat flow near its equator.”

The latest research on oceans was published in a paper published on July 29 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

It seems that nothing can stop the secularist to claim that life exists – somewhere, but not created by God.

However, only God can give us life.

Source:

Bartels, Meghan. 2019. On Icy Moons, Alien Life May Go with the Flow of Ocean Currents. Space.com. (3 September).

Evolutionists Belief that the Hyrax is an Elephant’s Relative

Image courtesy of Josski, Public Domain.

Joel Kontinen


Elephants do not look like hyraxes. Elephants are big and hyraxes are small, but evolutionists can say that some 50 millions years ago they shared an ancestor.

However, a Darwinian speculation accompanied this.


Source:

Currin, Grant, 2019. The Most Surprising Elephant Relatives on Earth. Life Science (2 September).