Nature Gets It Wrong About ID’S Relation to Creationism

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Joel Kontinen

“The appointment of a creationism advocate to lead the agency that oversees Brazil’s graduate study programs has scientists here concerned—yet again—about the encroachment of religion on science and education policy.”

However, evolution is based on naturalism, which is a religion minus the influence of God. So, this just proves that evolutionists want to do away with God.

"President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration on Saturday named Benedito Guimarães Aguiar Neto to head the agency, known as CAPES. Aguiar Neto, an electrical engineer by training, previously served as the rector of Mackenzie Presbyterian University (MPU), a private religious school here. It advocates the teaching and study of intelligent design (ID)."

Here’s how nature defines ID. “It is an outgrowth of biblical creationism that argues that life is too complex to have evolved by Darwinian evolution, and so required an intelligent designer.”
Some researchers are worried, with the temple of Darwin going down.

“CAPES is a key federal agency within Brazil’s Ministry of Education. It is responsible for regulating, supervising and evaluating all graduate-level programs at Brazilian universities, and funds thousands of scholarships for master’s and doctoral students. It also issues funding calls for research and provides training for teachers in primary and secondary education.”

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Escobar, Herton. 2020. Brazil’s pick of a creationist to lead its higher education agency rattles scientists. Nature 26 January.

President Donald Trump's address to the 2020 March for Life

The Shiny Beetle Case Is A Surprising Form of Camouflage

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Joel Kontinen

God has used nature in a way that which we would call not use. For instance, when it comes to camouflage, we would not suppose that a jewel beetle would look like a brooch.

But this is the perfect disguise for the jewel beetle (Sternocera aequisignata), scientist say. in a study conducted ibn the UK, Birds were up to three times less likely to find worms in the iridescent wing cases than in the noniridescent ones, the team reported a few day ago in Current Biology.


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Ortega, Rodrigo Pérez. 2020. This shiny beetle case is a surprising form of camouflage. Science 23 January,

Walking Sharks Are Not Transitional Fossils

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Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists would propose that once upon a time fish left their watery home and walked on dry land.

Science has a few of them. First, these and second, they are not these either.
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Now, scientist have spotted a shark that has evolved to walk on land.

“But some strange sharks are still evolving—and have even learned to walk. Meet the walking sharks”, begins an msn article about sharks."

“These three-foot-long creatures live near Australia, and, as their name implies, move their pectoral fins in the front and pelvic fins in the back to plod along the seafloor—or even atop coral reefs, outside the water, at low tide. Such mobility allows the sharks to wriggle between tide pools and different areas of the reef to prey upon crabs, shrimp, small fish—just about anything they can find.
'During low tides, they became the top predator on the reef', says Christine Dudgeon, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.”

“About 400 million years ago, the ancestors of sharks and all other jawed vertebrates diverged. Since then, only about 1,200 species of sharks and rays have come into existence. The animals are, mostly, very slow to evolve, slow to reproduce, and long-lived, Gavin Naylor explains.”

But now they have evolved in the past nine million years.

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Main, Douglas 2020. These sharks have evolved to walk on land—and they did it quickly MSN 24.1.

The Palestine Authority Is Seeking To Kill Those Taking Part In The 75 Years From Auschwitz Ceremony

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Joel Kontinen

Israel is holding the 7Oth ceremony from Auschwitch in Jerusalem, in the city that has a Jewish quarter as well. However, the Palestinias want to stop this:

“One shot will disrupt the [Holocaust] ceremony and one dead body will cancel the ceremony” – Call for murder in op-ed in official PA daily.

Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, said on January. 18, 2020.

"As over 40 world leaders gather in Jerusalem this week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of at the event Remembering the Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism, the Palestinian Authority wants to disrupt the ceremony. The official PA daily published an op-ed yesterday literally calling for murder in order to ruin the ceremony":

"Israel has shaken off everything from international law, to humanitarian international law, the decisions of the international bodies, and the beginning of the International Criminal Court's investigation (Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's statements on Jan. 10, 2020 that there is reason to investigate Israel and "members of Hamas and Palestinian armed groups" for war crimes –Ed.). Moreover, it is now energetically planning to hold a ceremony for the Holocaust in occupied Jerusalem, and it is accustomed to the world participating with it in this ceremony, as the Jews' Holocaust is terrible, but the Palestinian holocaust by Israel that still continues is insignificant, beautiful, spectacular, and good. Of course, the Palestinians will never accept this equation, and it can be assumed that they will resist the ceremony being held in Jerusalem itself, as Jerusalem is theirs, despite [US President Donald] Trump who gave it to Israel as part of the filthy deal of the century. One shot will disrupt the ceremony.”

We might remember that Sugihara Chiune, and Sir Nicholas Wintonas well as Frank Foley saved some Jews.

Source.

Marcus, Itama., 2020, PA daily calls for murder to stop Holocaust ceremony in Jerusalem Pal Watch 19 January.

Could Invisible Aliens Really Exist Among Us?

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Joel Kontinen

Here’s what Samantha Rolfe. Lecturer in Astrobiology and Principal Technical Officer at Bayfordbury Observatory, University of Hertfordshire said six days ago:

“Life moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym "MRSGREN" to describe it. It stands for movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition.”

“But Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut and a chemist at Imperial College London, recently said that alien lifeforms that are impossible to spot may be living among us. How could that be possible?"

Rolfe also says that an “alternative (but imperfect) approach is describing life as ‘a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution,’ which works for many cases we want to describe.

Yes, this brings Mr Darwin in the equation. according to the evolutionist’s reason, if life is formed by creation, it isn’t life!

She also thinks that tis life is "based on silicon rather than carbon. after all, “90% of the Earth is made up of silicon, iron, magnesium and oxygen, which means there's lots to go around for building potential life.” She thinks that “silicon is similar to carbon, it has four electrons available for creating bonds with other atoms. But silicon is heavier, with 14 protons (protons make up the atomic nucleus with neutrons) compared to the six in the carbon nucleus. While carbon can create strong double and triple bonds to form long chains useful for many functions, such as building cell walls, it is much harder for silicon. It struggles to create strong bonds, so long-chain molecules are much less stable.”

She also says, “Life on Earth is fundamentally different from the bulk composition of the Earth, ” Nature is adaptable – se might see life on Saturn's moon Titan or somewhere else.


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Rolfe, Samantha, 2020, Could Invisible Aliens Really Exist Among Us? Live Science. 15 January.

The 7-Meter-Long Giant Chinese Paddlefish, Long Recarded As A Living Fossil, Is No More

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Joel Kontinen


Now, this enormous ancient fish is officially extinct. This fish has largely remained unchanged for the past 200 million years. It grew to seven metres in length.

While the dates are spurios , they nevertheless say that the fish is old.

"The last of the fish likely died between 2005 and 2010, the researchers will report in the March 2020 issue of Science of The Total Environment",

Source

Frederick, Eva, 2920, This enormous ancient fish is officially extinct Science 7 January

The living fossil Ginkgo biloba might die of stress but not from disease

Joel Kontinen


Some trees can live for hundreds of years. They might suffer from stress but not disease. Evolutionists believe that the Ginkgo biloba or the Ginkgo biloba has remained Ginkgo biloba or maidenhair tree has remained virtually unchanged for “270 million years” or, according to a recent publication, perhaps even “300 million years”.

While the dates are suspect, the lack of change is not.

Yet it produces according to the Genesis , after its kind model, as do other ancient trees, such as the Wollemi Pine and
cycads and all animals that we know of, including the ones defined as living fossils, for instance spiky anteaters, koalas and red pandas.

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Malsbury, Erin, How the Ginkgo biloba achieves near-immortality. Science 16 january.

Evolutionists claim: 7 Million Years Old Grain Found

NASA, W. Sparks (STScI) and R. Sahai (JPL



Joel Kontinen

One of the mysteries of the of our universe is that the age Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, public domain.



Joel Kontinen ,

We must not ignore what the science tells us about science denial, this is what Adrian Bardon tells us in his speech.

Top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country's ineffective pandemic response on an American "anti-science bias." He called this bias "inconceivable," because "science is truth." Fauci compared those discounting the importance of masks and social distancing to "anti-vaxxers" in their "amazing" refusal to listen to science.

It is Fauci's profession of amazement that amazes me. As well-versed as he is in the science of the coronavirus, he's overlooking the well-established science of "anti-science bias," or science denial.

Anthony Fauci seems to be enamoured of the Chinese way of looking at things, No, science is not truth and the way they pervert the truth. Many top scientist have a grievance with him.

The story has to do with evolution. “The human talent for rationalization is a product of many hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation. Our ancestors evolved in small groups, where cooperation and persuasion had at least as much to do with reproductive success as holding accurate factual beliefs about the world.”

So, why does the speaker deal with the flood of Noah?, This is because of millions of years that have coached humans to be guilty of the denial of science.


Now, scientist are telling of the grain of our solar system;

This ancient interstellar dust, made of presolar grains (dust grains that predate our sun), was belched into the universe by dying stars during the final stages of their lives. Some of that dust eventually hitched a ride to Earth on an asteroid that produced the Murchison meteorite, a massive, 100 kilograms (220-lb). rock that fell on Sept. 28, 1969, near Murchison, Victoria, in Australia.

There is a belief That these millions of years are real.

Source

Weinberger, Mindy, 2020. 7 Billion-Year-Old Stardust Is Oldest Material Found on Earth, Live Science .

Evolutionists claim; This Animal Lived 500 Million Years Ago

An artist's interpretation of the ancient cloudinomorph, with the guts shown in red. Artwork by Stacy Turpin Cheavens, University of Missouri.Image courtesy of James Schiffbauer, Fair use dialogue.


Joel Kontinen




The Ediacaran fossils are unique, was grew in a more complex way than we assumed.

They seem to defy Darwinian expectations.

The fossils date back more than half a billion years , to the late Ediacaran period. That makes them about 30 million years older than the next-oldest fossilized guts on record. More important than their age, though, is that these fossilized guts could finally pinpoint the identity of one of the most widespread types of animals before the Cambrian explosion, the rapids rapid diversification of life that occurred soon after the end of the Ediacaran. , because it exists right in between the weirdos of the Ediacaran.

We don't know what they are; they're bag-like animals that were maybe not animals, maybe just complex eukaryotes — they exist between those and what we know from the Cambrian, which we can recognize as animal life," said James Schiffbauer, a paleobiologist at the University of Missouri who led the new research. d diversification of life that occurred soon after the end of the Ediacaran.

They date to between 550 million and 539 million years ago. This was the end of the Ediacaran, the period in which the earliest multicellular complex life arose. Life at that time was bizarre and hard to classify by modern standards; most fossils of these organisms look like fronds, tubes or vaguely round bags.

Among the most common fossils from the late Ediacaran are a group called cloudinomorphs. Their fossils are found worldwide, Schiffbauer told Live Science, and they look like little tubes.

The findings appear yesterday (January 10) in the Journal Nature Communications.


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Pappas, Stephanie 2020. Oldest Guts Ever Found May Reveal the Identity of a Mysterious Primordial Creature Live Science (10.1.).

Probably Iran Shot Down The Ukraina Flight PS752

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Joel Kontinen

Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was brought down by a missile, launched by the Iranians, said Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. All passengers – and the crew were killed by the missile. Of them, 83 were Canadians. Mr. Trudeuan said that he had information “from multiple sources indicating that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to air missile”

Then British Prime Minister Boris Johnstone and Australian premier Scott Morrison also told that told that the flight was brought down by a missile.

It is thought that a Russian air defence system, that brought down the Maleysia Airlines in 2014, also brought this one down.

However, the Iranians are adamant that some other way of pointing to the scenario that brought the crash, until the day hat the Iranians explained that a missile crashed the flight.

Source:

Iran plane crash: Evidence that missile downed jet – Trudeau
BBC news 9.1.

Ancient Potter's Secret 'Piggy Bank'

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Joel Kontinen

It seems that the deeper one goes, the Jewish history of the Holy land is always present. From a lost street built by Pontiuns Pilate, a seal of the prophet Isaiah found and a biblical war revealed in a 2800 year old stone altar.

The latest is a Hanukkah gelt. Researchers from the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) likened the stash of seven gold pieces to "Hanukkah gelt" (those foil-covered chocolate coins that bless Jewish parents with eight nights of stains to clean up), though the coins date to the ninth century, when Israel was under Islamic rule.

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Specktor, Brandon,2020. Ancient Potter's Secret 'Piggy Bank' Uncovered in 1,200-Year-Old Ceramics Kiln in Israel-
Live Science (2 January).

Evolutionists fall into their speculation, more dinosaurs exists in their story than in life

Nanotyrannus lancensi. Image courtesy of Conty, CC BY 3.0.




Joel Kontinen


The fossil record can be a nightmare for Darwinian evolution, as animals often appear fully formed in the wrong places, don’t evolve for aeons and any assumed intermediate forms tend to be more or less suspicious. national geographic, in 2009,National Geographic reported that a third of dinosaur species never existed.

Dinosaurs Decoded is a documentary that challenges our views of dinosaurs. The film, produced by the National Geographic Channel, claims that a third of dinosaur species never existed.

Young dinosaurs differed in many ways from their parents. However, researchers have not always taken this into account. Science thus ”knows” species that have never existed.

Mark Goodwin of the University of California, Berkeley, and Jack Horne of Montana State University, are prominent palaeontologists who present their discoveries in the documentary. They suggest, for instance, that the relatives of T. rex were often classified as distinct species although they actually were juveniles that lacked the traits that are characteristic of adult Tyrannosaurs.

Nowadays many researchers regard Nanotyrannus as a young T. rex. They know that dinosaurs changed as they got older just like many present species do. For instance, deer get their antlers when they are full-grown.

Jane and Petey were terrible teens, it seems.

Two 6-foot-tall dinosaurs, nicknamed "Jane" and "Petey," have been confirmed as Tyrannosaurus rex teenagers with years of growth ahead of them, and not a pygmy dinosaur species as some had argued.

In 2015, science posted an article about nonotyrannos, (its in Finnish, but you can see it here ).

Both teenagers were 1.8 to 2.4 centimetres 6 to 8 feet in height, about 4.5 to 6 m (15 to 20 feet) in length, and they about 1,000 kilograms 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms).

Microscopic analysis of the bones from the two skeletons, both found in Montana in the early 2000s, determined that they were from two Tyrannosaurus rex juveniles, 13 and 15 years old at death — and not a new species named Nanotyrannus, which has been suggested.

"The research confirmed that these were immature animals," paleontologist Holly Woodward from Oklahoma State University told Live Science. "They were not full-sized."

This study shows that the creationist’s view of dinos is right. They would like God calling the dinos that were in their teens to climb on board Noah’s Ark.

Source:

Metcalfe, Tom. 2020. 6-Foot-Tall T. Rex Skeletons Not a New Pygmy Species, Just Teenagers. Live Science (3.1.).

Early 'Soda Lakes' Have Provided Missing Ingredient Key to the Origin of Life

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Joel Kontinen

Lakes that thrived in dry locations on early Earth likely played a key role in supplying phosphorus, researchers wrote in a new study published Dec. 30 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Phosphorus is crucial to life, Without it we not have it.

Phosphorus is crucial to life as we know it. The mineral helps form the backbone of DNA and RNA molecules; anchors lipids, or fats, that separate cells from the environment around them; and helps provide life energy, serving as the main component in molecules such as adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.

The finding explains how this scarce mineral became abundant in Earth's primordial soup. Put more plainly, it helps scientists understand how life likely arose. "For 50 years, what's called 'the phosphate problem,' has plagued studies on the origin of life," study co-researcher Jonathan Tone , a research assistant professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington, said in a statement.

The building blocks of proteins, DNA and RNA — in essence, the key ingredients of life, the researchers said.

As a result, some of the phosphate is freely available in the water, according to experiments done by Toner and Catling.

"The extremely high phosphate levels in these lakes and ponds would have driven reactions that put phosphorus into the molecular building blocks of RNA, proteins and fats, all of which were needed to get life going," Catling said in the statement.

About 4 billion years ago , early Earth's carbon dioxide-rich air would have helped create such lakes with high phosphorus levels, the researchers said.


Now,who made this transition?
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This study complements another paper the two researchers published in 2019, which shows that soda lakes can also supply ample cyanide, a chemical that is deadly to humans but not to primitive microbes. Cyanide could have supported the formation of amino acids and nucleotides, the building blocks of proteins, DNA and RNA — in essence, the key ingredients of life, the researchers said.

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Geggel, Laura. 2020. Early 'Soda Lakes' May Have Provided Missing Ingredient Key to the Origin of Life Live Science 2 January.

Israeli leaders sign an agreement with Cyprus and Greece to build a pipeline that will bring Israeli gas to Europe

Israeli gas pipes, Shutterstock.





Joel Kontinen

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz travelled to Athens, Greece, on Thursday, where they are to sign a three-way gas agreement with Cyprus and Greece that sets the stage for the exportation of natural gas to Europe.

The prime minister added that “We have established an alliance in the Middle East of tremendous importance for the future of Israel’s energy and turning it into an energy superpower.”

The Athens summit occurs in the context of recent strategic talks between Israel, Cyprus and Greece, and the launch of Israel’s offshore Leviathan gas field on Tuesday, the largest energy project in Israel’s history. It is expected to yield 22 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, paving the way for multibillion-dollar gas-export deals with Egypt and Jordan. Turkey tried to hinder israel's gas pipes.

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Israel, Cyprus and Greece are Signing an agreement to Build a Pipeline that Will bring Israeli Gas Across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Breaking Israel News (January 2).

Did Humans Move in Central America More Than 20,000 Years Ago?

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Joel Kontinen

Now humans may have reached Central America more than 20,000 years ago. A scientific team looking into this spotted “a sizable number of stone tools as well as organic remains found in a cave.”

According to evolutionists, the date is as good as older dates, The event is at a time when glaciers covered much of North America and the animals were different than today.


Source:

Jarus, Owen. 2020. 5 Big Archaeology Discoveries to Watch for in 2020. Live Science (1.1.)