All men and women created…by the…co…you know…you know the thing,” Biden said

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Joel Kontinen

Joe Biden is known to have forgotten some things. He had forgotten the name of the previous president, for instance.

Then he also forgot the name of the God from the Declaration of independence.” Biden may not know the Declaration because he doesn’t truly believe that all people are created equal, at least not unborn children. Biden is totally out of step on abortion with most Americans with his unflinching support for abortions up to birth.”

This time, it may not be a mistake. The Democrats have avoided all mention of God in the public square.

This is not the kind of mistake Donald Trump Donald Trump would make.

Source:

Joe Biden Forgets “the Creator” in the Declaration of Independence. Calls God “the Thing”. Life News Com 2 March.

Iran Blames Donald Trump For Spreading The Coronavirus

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Joel Kontinen

Iran blames Donald Trump for spreading the coronavirus. According to them, America is the “Great Satan” that tries to poison everything.

“The Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights said during a recent television interview America’s behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that it truly is the “Great Satan,” and that Europeans that speak of human rights should be ashamed of obeying America’s “oppressive” policies.”

“In a March 18 interview with Iran’s Channel 1, Ali Bagheri Kani, who served as deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council from 2007 to 2013, said that countries that refuse to cooperate with Iran regarding the pandemic are responsible for spreading it all over the world. He mocked an unnamed European country for sending Iran aid in the form of 100 pairs of boots, saying, “This is the kind of creatures that they are.”

“There isn’t much I can say about America,” said Kani. “America is, indeed, the Great Satan, and its past and its future are clear, especially at a time like this when they become evident to everybody. The Europeans who talk about human rights should really feel a little bit ashamed of themselves for obeying the oppressive policy of the Americans. When everybody is dealing with this thing—with the coronavirus—they [the Americans] do not stop doing their illegal and inhumane thing.”

Iran has set free 70,000 prisoners because of the coronavirus, including Christians. Most of the deceased are members of the Muslim elite.

Source:

Sidman, David, 2020. Iran Blames Trump for Spreading Coronavirus. Breaking Israel News (26 March).

Robot Walks Like A Sea Slug’s Swimming Stroke

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Joel Kontinen

Research published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say that humans have tried to get an underwater robot to walk like sea slug’s swimming stroke.

Nature research reported that

"Researchers led by Metin Sitti at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, sought to make soft robots that can move underwater. Inspired by the fluid motion of sea slugs, the scientists chose bending as the basis for their robot’s movements. They turned to liquid crystals as a basic material and light as a power source.

Sitti’s team introduced a plasticizer to a common type of liquid crystal, transforming it from a stiff substance into a flexible, soft gel. On illumination, long molecules that were lined up in loose rows within the gel splayed apart, forcing the gel to bend.

One robot walked some 65 millimetres on an underwater track in 108 seconds. Another propelled itself while bearing a thin frame roughly its own size."

Here their take on biomimetics or biomimicry.

Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did, He did very well.

Source:

Soft robot takes cues from a sea slug’s swimming stroke. Nature. 2 March.
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Former Palestinian Terrorists Says Who Profits From The Monkey The Free World Gives The Palestinians

The equinox reveals one of the secrets of Egypt's Sphinx

Egypt Ministry of Antiquities, Fair use dialogue.


Joel Kontinen

"The ancient Egyptians likely arranged this on purpose.

The Sphinx had a "distinctive astronomical" moment with the sun during the spring equinox when, in a shining flourish, the sun set on the shoulder of the half-man, half-lion statue on March 19, according to the Egypt Ministry of Antiquities.

This phenomenon happens only twice a year, during the spring in March and the fall equinox in September, according to the ministry.

During the equinox, Earth's axis doesn't point toward or away from the sun, meaning that the Northern and Southern hemispheres receive equal amounts of the sun's light. In other words, the day and the night are equal in length."

The early chapters of the Bible indicate that already at the dawn of history, humans were able to smelt and refine metals (Genesis 4:22), just a few generations after creation. Thus, Babylonian astronomerswere cleverer than we thought and the wise men from the east could reach Christ’s birthplace.

Stonehenge in Britain has also caused a rethink of evolution-based views has also caused a rethink of evolution-based views.

Stonehenge tells us that early man was cleverer than we thought.


Then there’s the Antikythera Mechanism. With at least 30 gear wheels and pointers, it was a mechanical computer for calculating the movements of the sun, moon and probably also some planets.

And it was built 2,000 years ago.

Source:

Geggel, Laura. 2020. The equinox reveals one of the secrets of Egypt's iconic Sphinx. Live Science. 23 March.

Insect Eyes Make Better Cameras

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Joel Kontinen

Scientist in South Korea have build a camera an ultrathin insect eye camera. A research team by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST) research team led by Professor Jeong Ki-Hun demonstrated a fully packaged ultrathin insect eye camera.

“An insect's compound eye has superior visual characteristics such as wide viewing angle, high motion sensitivity, and large depth of field while maintaining a small volume of visual structure with a small focal length. Among them, Xenos peckii, an endoparasite of paper wasps, has eyes with hundreds of photoreceptors in a single lens—unlike conventional compound eyes with a few light-sensing cells in an individual eyelet. This unique structure offers higher visual resolution than other insect eyes. The Xenos peckii eye also perceives partial images through pigmented cups that block incoming light between eyelets.”

This is KAIST team’s take on biomimetics or biomimicry.

Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did, He did very well.

Source:

Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2020. Biologically inspired ultrathin arrayed camera for high-contrast and high-resolution imaging Phys.Org. 3 March.

Waking Fish Catches Evolutionist's Thinking

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Joel Kontinen

You can Thank this fish for your fingers. Evolutionists say. They are comfortable with the saying the fish is 380 million years old.

This 380-million-year-old fossil of a fish called Elpistostege watsoni has revealed that fingers evolved in vertebrates before the creatures wriggled out of the sea and evolved into land-dwelling creatures, as a new study describes.

Yes, even fish today have fingers but they’re not transitional. and, there is the once taught Latimeria chalumnae, that was taught was extinct but is now alive.

Other elpistostegalian fishes include the TIktaalik, known only from incomplete fossil specimens in the Canadian Arctic.

"This is the first time that we have unequivocally discovered fingers locked in a fin with fin-rays in any known fish," study senior author John Long, professor in palaeontology at Flinders University, said in a statement. "The articulating digits in the fin are like the finger bones found in the hands of most animals."

Yes, but this fish did not walk on its fins:

However, this fish likely didn't walk on its fins. There are too many small bones there, meaning that the fish had a lot of flexibility in the "finger" region, but these fingers weren't optimal for bearing weight on land. "Most likely, Elpistostege was swimming, but it could have stood on its pectoral fins on the bottom of shallow estuarine and fluvial water," Richard Cloutier said.

This is just a bit of evolutionary just so-story.


Source:

Geggel,Laura. 2020. Fish sprouted fingers before they ventured onto land, fossil shows Live Science 18.3.

Tatooine worlds May Be A Real-Life Possibility For Some Alien Civilizations, Says Evolutionist

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Joel Kontinen

We used to look for life on planets that look just like the sun, however, research tells us that in the universe that we could concentrate of double suns, as an evolutionists says, "Tatooine worlds may be a real-life possibility for some alien civilizations."

We used to think that only single-suns had planets, but now it seems that almost 300 suns have a pair, thus making them Tatooine worlds, as the story of Lucy Skywalker narrates.

However, we need to confess that it is only God who gives life ,all other scenarios are bogus, that is they do not occur.

Source:

Sutter, Paul. 2020. How common are Tatooine worlds? Live Science 16 March.

Flea Beetles Defy The Powers Of Gravity

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Joel Kontinen

Flea beetles can jump. Their jumping skills can outperform the forces of gravity lies in their hind legs.

They can escape a predator archers with ease. Researched counted that they could jump 30 times at that speed.

“3D reconstructions and high-speed filming data, the scientists revealed that the acceleration during the jump can reach an explosive peak of 8,650 m/s2, which is 865 times the acceleration of gravity. The peak power output of the hind legs of the beetle peaked at 2.24 × 105 W/kg (per unit mass). This is about 450 times the capabilities of the fastest known muscle and 100~200 times that of a powerful rally car engine.”

“The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research article in the open-access journal Zookeys. Despite having been known since 1929, the explosive jump – which is also the reason behind the colloquial name of this group of leaf beetles – has so far not been fully understood.”

”In conclusion, the scientists note that the catapulting jump mechanism in flea beetles is so efficient and yet so simple that it might find an excellent use in robotics, as well as in engineering and industrial installations. In their research paper, they also propose a design of a bionic limb inspired by the studied beetles.”

Biomimicry is a way that animals perform skills that humans can use in their research.


Source:

Pensoft Editorial Team, 2020, Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs. Pensoft 25 February,




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Iranian Christians Released From Prison

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Joel Kontinen

While the coronavirus has created sorrow for many of the earth’s citizens, there is a bit of sunshine in the darkness. several Christian families in Iran are rejoicing that their family members have been released from prison.

Iran has released approximately 70,000 prisoners because of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Iranian judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday, according to Mizan, the news site of the judiciary.

"The release of the prisoners, to the point where it doesn’t create insecurity in society … will continue,” he said.

Detainees were released from prisons that hold Christians, including the three main prisons that are the most notorious – Karaj Prison, Evin Prison and Tehran’s Greater Prison, also known as Fashafuyeh.

So far, six top diplomats have contracted the virus, Three of them have already died.

Source:

A Reason for Iranian Christians to Rejoice Among the Coronavirus Mayhem Back to Jerusalem 10 March.

Tiny Bird Found In Amber In Myanmar

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Joel Kontinen

This tiny head, 14 millimetres long (including the beak), belongs to one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found. Entombed in amber for 99 million years - this is the standard view of birds or animals trapped in amber found in Myanmar. This creature belonged to the group of dinosaurs that according to evolutionists gave rise to modern birds.

The fossil, discovered in Myanmar, has been christened Oculudentavis khaungraae, or “eye-tooth bird.” It has large eye sockets on the sides of its head like modern lizards, and its eyes have narrow openings that limit incoming light. That’s a strong hint that the animal was active during the day.

Oculudentavis’s upper and lower jaws are full of sharp teeth—the most found on any ancestral bird—which implies that it was a predator that likely ate insects and other small invertebrates, researchers report recently in Nature. They think the species tiny size is an example of “island dwarfism,” as it likely inhabited an arc of islands that existed where Myanmar is today.

Without the rest of the body, the scientists can’t tell exactly how Oculudentavis is related to other birdlike dinosaurs—or whether it could fly. But they suspect it belongs to a group of relatively primitive birds, perhaps similar to Archaeopteryx and Jeholornis , species that lived between 150 million and 120 million ago years the researchers of a new study said.

Source:

Vogel, Gretchen. 2020. Head of tiny dinosaur found trapped in amber Science 11 March

The parrots that understand probabilities

A kea,image courtesy of Markus Koljonen, CC-BY-SA-2.5.




Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, chimps should be next to humans as learners. However, a new video shows that The New Zealand kea can outperform monkeys in several intelligence tests

A group of kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set them a series of intelligence tests based around probabilities and social cues. They found that kea can perform better than chimps .




The parrots that understand probabilities Nature video.

Evolutionists Propose How Life Could Have Originated In The Solar System

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Joel Kontinen

Here’s a new take on how life arouse from non-life, a theory known as abiogenesis.

We know life exists, and it must have begun at some point in time. A new study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy looked at how life's building blocks could spontaneously form in the universe—a process known as abiogenesis.

He points out that the thing to watch is ribonucleic acid, or RNA, which is simpler than DNA that defines how we are put together.

“RNA is a polymer, meaning it is made of chemical chains, in this case known as nucleotides. Researchers in this field have reason to believe that RNA no less than 40 to 100 nucleotides long is necessary for the self-replicating behaviour required for life to exist. Given sufficient time, nucleotides can spontaneously connect to form RNA given the right chemical conditions”

He also brings up cosmic inflation, that some scientist have called a totally bonkers idea. He says that "it's calculated that thanks to rapid inflation, the universe may contain more than 1 googol (10100) stars, and if this is the case then more complex, life-sustaining RNA structures are more than just probable, they're practically inevitable."

So in his view, that is how life began, without God, who breathes life whenever it is needed.

Source:

Study reveals life in the universe could be common, but not in our neighbourhood. 2020. Phys.org 5 March

Evolutionist think that they might have found proteins on meteorites

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Joel Kontinen

Some people think that proteins are carried to us on meteorites. This is a way called panspermia, which is a bit more complicated version of how life arose than by natural selection.

However even then the first life should be made by a Creator.

This is what New Scientist says about space rocks:

“A team of researchers claim to have found a protein inside a meteorite. It would be the first protein ever discovered from beyond Earth, though not an indication of alien life – and other scientists are sceptical the analysis really found anything at all.”

“iWe know that amino acids, which are organic compounds that act as the building blocks of life, can form on meteors and other space rocks. But the extent of prebiotic chemistry beyond Earth is still unknown, and how that chemistry turns into life is even more mysterious.”

“Julie McGeoch, also at Harvard University, and her colleagues analysed a pristine sample of a meteorite that was found in Algeria in 1990. First, they used a series of small, carefully sanitised drills – similar to dentistry ones – to collect material from deep inside the meteorite.”

More scientist, such as Lee Cronin, are of the opinion that these space rocks do not come from outer space.

Source:

Crane, Leah. 2020. Have we really found an alien protein inside a meteorite? New Scientist 3 March.

An Animal That Does Not Breath

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Joel Kontinen


This might be a god-sent for evolutionists who try to find live on moons, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa. Life has to be created However, life only come from life. It has to be created.

"Breathing is essential for animals to stay alive.

Or so we thought. In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have now identified the first animal that doesn’t use oxygen to breathe: Henneguya salminicola, an 8-millimeter white parasite that infects the flesh of Chinook salmon. Multicellular organisms use oxygen to produce energy, a process that happens in the mitochondria. This organelle has its own genes for this process, but when scientists looked for them in the parasite, they were completely absent, New Scientist reports. The reason why this animal¬¬ lost the genes to breathe is unclear, but it’s possible it gets its energy from its host."

Source:

Ortega, Rodrigo Pérez. 2020, This is the only known animal that doesn’t need oxygen to survive, Science 26 February.

Antimatter Is still The Big Bang’s Problem

The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. Image courtesy of NASA.


Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists think that the big bang is ”the beginning of all things. Space, time, matter and energy bursting into existence from a pinprick of infinite temperature and density. Space racing away from itself faster than the speed of light. Maybe even the making of a multiverse.”

The multiverse is a bogus idea. No scientific data can testify of it.

Antimatter is like matter, but it has the opposite electrical charge and it destroys normal matter when they interact. It thus means the universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude. or they will have to do away with the Big Bang Model.

A part form of dark matter and dark energy, antimatter is a problem for the big bang. it is not produced naturally and experiments produce so little of it that they do not give proof of its reality.


Source:

Webb, Richard. 2020. The antimatter factory about to solve the universe's greatest mystery. New Scientist 26 February.
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Asia Bibi in France

Asia Bibi was in France, promoting her new book, Enfin Libre! (Finally Free) written in French with the help on the journalist Anne-Isabelle Tollet.

In it, “she recounts her time in jail and her brutal treatment by guards.”

She says that her Christian faith I helped her through the ordeal, as she was put by the prison guards, and says that she always taught be would get away free.

"I found out from my husband that the whole world was praying for me. And that even the Pope had prayed for me. That made me happy. And I found out the whole world was praying for my misery to end.”

She spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges, that never seemed to end.

Now, she hopes one day to return to Pakistan.

Asia Bibi: I always believed I would be freed BBC News 28 February.