Microbes That Went to Sleep 101.5 Years Ago Are Brought to Life

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Joel Kontinen 

Some microbes that scientist say have seen daylight since the time of the dinosaurs have just come alive. 

They were brought up “from 328 feet (100 meters) below the 20,000-foot-deep (6,000 m) bottom of the South Pacific Gyre. That's a region of the Pacific Ocean with very few nutrients and little oxygen available for life to survive on, and the researchers were looking for data on how microbes get along in such a remote part of the world.” 

They went to sleep 101,5 million years ago and now they are brought to life by scientists. 

The scientist were not sure what they would do. ”However, cells responded, many of them quickly. They quickly gobbled up nitrogen and carbon. Within 68 days, the total cell count had quadrupled from the original 6,986. Aerobic bacteria — oxygen breathers — were the hardiest cells and most likely to wake up. These tiny organisms were surviving on just the tiny bubbles of air that make their way down into sediment over geologic timescales. It seems that the metabolic rate of aerobic bacteria is just slow enough to allow them to survive for such extended periods.” 

This is how evolution- believing scientist think they have brought these the single-celled organisms back to life that can’t be given a lifespan in that way.  

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Letzter, Rafi. 2020. sleeping microbes wake up after 100 million years buried under the seafloor. Rafi Life science•  30 July. 

Mount Saint Helens Erupted

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Joel Kontinen

 

In May 1980 The Mount St. Helens eruption indicated that thick sediment layers could form in almost no time. A single lava flow in June 1980 formed over 7.5 metres (25 feet) of sediment in just three hours. What is more, the layers look like they are millions of years old.

In addition, mud slides formed a huge canyon very rapidly. The Toutle River Canyon looks as if it is millions of years old, but its real age is 30 years.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens reminds us what the Genesis Flood could do. Mount St. Helens eruption indicated that thick sediment layers could form in almost no time. A single lava flow in June 1980 formed over 7.5 metres (25 feet) of sediment in just three hours. What is more, the layers look like they are millions of years old.

In addition, mud slides formed a huge canyon very rapidly. The Toutle River Canyon looks as if it is millions of years old, but its real age is 30 years.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens reminds us what the Genesis Flood could do. Mount St. Helens erupted, showing that major geological features can be produced in almost an instant instead of needing millions of years.

The Mount St. Helens eruption indicated that thick sediment layers could form in almost no time. A single lava flow in June 1980 formed over 7.5 metres (25 feet) of sediment in just three hours. What is more, the layers look like they are millions of years old.

In addition, mud slides formed a huge canyon very rapidly. The Toutle River Canyon looks as if it is millions of years old but its real age is 30 years.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens reminds us what the Genesis Flood could do.

A new DVD shows what happened. Here’s its promo, courtesy of Creation Ministries International:

Mammoth Found In Siberia – And Sharks In Mammoth Cave

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Joel Kontinen

Siberia seems to be a treasure drove for ancient animals. Scientists have found wolves, a burly unicorn and a horse with blood flowing from it and cave lions that were not able to be fossilised despite being 10,000 years old.

The last two links are in Finnish.

Now, Fragments of the skeleton were found by local reindeer herders in the shallows of Pechevalavato Lake on the Yamalo-Nenets region a few days ago. They found part of the animal's skull, the lower jaw, several ribs, and a foot fragment with sinews still intact.

Woolly mammoths are thought to have died out around 10,000 years ago, although scientists think small groups of them may have lived on longer in Alaska and on Russia’s Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast.
Russian television stations on Friday showed scientists looking for fragments of the skeleton in the lakeside silt.

Scientists have retrieved more bones and also located more massive fragments protruding from the silt. They said it would take significant time and special equipment to recover the rest of the skeleton — if it had all survived in position.

Yevgeniya Khozyainova of the Shemanovsky Institute in Salekhard said in televised remarks that finding the complete skeleton of a mammoth is relatively rare. Such finds allow scientists to deepen their understanding of mammoths.

The ABC copy of the story includes a short video of another remarkable find: Sharks in Kentucky Mammoth Cave. The shark remains, found in the walls of the sediments that must have been an ocean in the past. They date from 330 million years ago.

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Well-preserved mammoth skeleton found in Siberian lake.
ABS News . 24 July.

Hummingbird Sized Dinosaur May Actually Be A Lizard, Evolution Claims

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Joel Kontinen

A fossil attributed to a teensy, feathered dinosaur may not be a dinosaur at all, but rather a ... lizard, according to new research. With the new criticism, the March study — titled "Hummingbird-sized dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of Myanmar" was retracted on July 22 from the journal Nature where it had been published, according to a statement in the journal.

The creature’s 99 million-year-old skull was entombed in amber when scientists discovered it in a mine in Myanmar (formerly Burma), Entombed in amber for 99 million years - This is the standard view of birds or animals trapped in amber found in Myanmar.

Despite what the scientist say, birds cannot change into dinosaurs. That is a Darwinian story that can't be verified. A tiny bird has been found in Myanmar, and early birds molted just like modern birds do.

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Geggel, Laura. 2020. Hummingbird-size dinosaur may actually be a lizard. Live Science 23 July.

Ancient Birds Molted Like Modern Songbirds

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Joel Kontinen

Science has portrayed the 120b million of years ago as a winged dinosaur. However, the species looked just like a bird, despite its four wings. They molten just like modern bird do.

Here’ want it says:

“Fossilized plumage suggests a small, four-winged dinosaur that lived 120 millions of years ago may have shed its feathers like modern songbirds do, Science News reports. The plumage—three short feathers tucked amid much longer ones—could be the first evidence of a nonbird dinosaur molting. Songbirds lose only a few feathers at a time in a strategy known as sequential molting, which allows them to take flight yearround.

This new finding suggests Microraptor may have done the same, researchers reported this week in Current Biology. The fossilized feathers—which could push back the history of molting by 50 million years—also support the idea that the dino was a strong flyer, frequently taking to the air to find food or evade predators."

In other words: dinosaurs were dinosaurs and birds are birds.

Hicks, Lucy. 2020. This four-winged dino may have molted like modern songbirds, Science 17 July.

Israeli Farmers Turn to Owls for Natural Pest Control

Arson Suspected In Burning Of Historic Cathedral In Western France

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Joel Kontinen


It seems that Christianophobia”is having a hey date in France.

”The Saint Peter and Saint Paul cathedral of Nantes, in the west of France, was ravaged by a violent fire this Saturday morning. The blaze caused severe damage to the inside of the late-Gothic building, completely destroying a beautiful and monumental baroque organ built in the 17th century. It had survived the French Revolution, two world wars, and the fire that destroyed the roof of Nantes cathedral in 1972. Fifteen months after the fire that destroyed the roof and spire of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, this new tragic conflagration is leading many Catholics to ask whether “is not to blame for the increase of such incidents."

Many Catholics believe that the fire was caused by arson.

Philippe de Villiers, a former presidental candidate, said: “The fire in Nantes Cathedral, after that of Notre-Dame of Paris, should make our elites reflect on the present great disorder and great upheaval. De-civilization is underway. During lockdown, the churches were closed. Now they are burning.”

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Smits, Jeanne . 2020. Arson suspected in burning of historic cathedral in western France Life Site News 18 July.

Evolutionary Psychology Is Not Possible

Noam Chomsky was an advocate for evolutionary psychology. Image courtesy of John Soares, public domain.



Joel Kontinen


Subrena E. Smith writes this about evolutionary psychology:

"In this article I argue that evolutionary psychological strategies for making inferences about present-day human psychology are methodologically unsound. Evolutionary psychology is committed to the view that the mind has an architecture that has been conserved since the Pleistocene, and that our psychology can be fruitfully understood in terms of the original, fitness-enhancing functions of these conserved psychological mechanisms."

Then she goes on to say:

"But for evolutionary psychological explanations to succeed, practitioners must be able to show that contemporary cognitive mechanisms correspond to those that were selected for in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness, that these present-day cognitive mechanisms are descended from the corresponding ancestral mechanisms, and that they have retained the functions of the ancestral mechanisms from which they are descended. I refer to the problem of demonstrating that these conditions obtain as “the matching problem,” argue that evolutionary psychology does not have the resources to address it, and conclude that evolutionary psychology, as it is currently understood, is therefore impossible".

AS As David F. Coppedge writes; “Smith is an evolutionist herself, she challenges psychologists with the “matching problem” that she says plagues evolutionary psychology: its inability to match what selection pressures or responses our ancestors faced with what humans face today. If humans can only respond blindly to their evolutionary past, how are governments supposed to hold them responsible?”

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Smith, Subrena E, 2020. Is Evolutionary Psychology Possible? Biological Theory volume 15, pages39–49(2020)

Donald Trump: " We will only kneel to the almighty God"

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Joel Kontinen


US President Donald Trump gave a historic speech at Mount Rushmore on Saturday celebrating America’s Independence Day. His Fourth of July address invoked God in many instances, including the right to life for babies in the womb saying: “We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child, of every colour — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.”

The president also lauded the Judeo-Christian values that the nation was founded on noting: “We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.”

He also treated the family as the bedrock of American life.

“We know that the American family is the bedrock of American life.”

Regarding the Declaration of Independence, the president recalled how the rights endowed to all mankind were given by God saying: “These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable march of freedom. Our Founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given [to] us by our Creator in Heaven. And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away — ever.”

"We will only kneel to the almighty God"; was his saying.


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Sidman, David, 2020. Trump at mount Rushmore: “Only Kneel To Almighty God. Breaking Israel News 5 july

Beautiful Australian Bees

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Joel Kontinen

He has made everything beautiful in its time . This is what the book of Ecclesiastes 3.11 says what God has made. the bees of Australia are a site to be honoured for.

The evolution of the bees is clouded in mystery.


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Saplakoglu,Yasemin. 2020.Gorgeous images of Australian 'rainbow' bees will blow your mind. Live Science, 14 July.

Anthony Fauci's ignorance of science

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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.

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Bardon, Adrian, 2020. Humans are hardwired to dismiss (coronavirus) facts that don't fit their worldview. Live Science 4 July.

New discoveries are still stunning archaeologists!

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Joel Kontinen

Many people tend to think that ancient men could not have been as clever as we are. This is in keeping with the Darwinian idea that humans evolved very gradually from ape-like creatures and learning was a slow hit-or-miss affair. They were not expected to accomplish much intellectually.

However, the pyramids, Stonehenge and other ancient monuments and devices tell an entirely different kind of story.

Now, a discovery in England, has got archaeologists puzzled. They dug up the largest prehistoric structure, just under two miles from Stonehenge.

The discovered site is a huge circle, around 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) in diameter, consisting of twenty shafts that are five metres deep (!6 feet) and up to 20 metres (65 ft) in diameter

The archaeologists are puzzled because this structure is way off what they thought.

“A wide range of dates were calculated, some as old as 7,179 ± 28 years BC for shell, and 1130 BC for bone (calibrated), but all from the same deposits. The archaeological report admits: “There is a wide range of time represented in the radiocarbon dates- early dates are on shells and suggest that the determinations from these samples are not reliable.”

Carbon dating is full on assumptions, while it is the most accurate dating method.


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Cox,Gavin. 2020. Stonehenge: new discoveries are still stunning archaeologists! Creation.com. 29 June.

Our Hum Might Have Originated With Primordial Lighting

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Joel Kontinen

There's an electrical hum in most animals, including ourselves. No one knows where it came from or why exactly it exists. Now, new research suggests this electric hum came from primordial lightning.

Colin Price, lead author on the new study and researcher at the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Tel Aviv University in Israel, told Live Science. "We think that on evolutionary timescales, over billions of years, life-forms may have used what nature has given them and have somehow either synchronized to those frequencies or adapted to them."

"Evolution exploits whatever it can," said Michael Levin, a biologist at Tufts University in Massachusetts who was not involved with the new research. He noted for example, "When living things are screened [blocked] from a geomagnetic field, they don't develop right."

The study is just an attempt to get something good of evolution. We might think that God, who knows everything, might have put it there.

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Johnson-Groh, Mara. 2020. The electric hum of life may have originated with primordial lightning Live Science 8 July

You can’t Destroy what God Has Blessed

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Joel Kontinen


Nikki Haley has taken a biblical stance on Israel The CUFI Virtual Summit 2020 took place on Tuesday with U.S. former Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley addressing viewers. Regarding the UN’s antipathy towards Israel, Haley said “you can’t destroy what God has blessed.”

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Nikki Haley on Israel: You can’t Destroy what God Has Blessed. Breaking Israel News 1. July

Newly Discovered Seal Bears Witness to Jewish Resolve After Temple’s Destruction

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Joel Kontinen


What was life like for the Jewish people after the destruction of the First Holy Temple in Jerusalem and the ensuing Babylonian exile?

A remarkable recent archaeological find in Jerusalem’s City of David is shedding light on this question, and experts believe it reflects the Jewish people’s resolve to reinstate key societal features that had been destroyed during the siege on the Holy City.

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced in a statement that the find consists of “a double stamp impression on a bulla and a seal made of reused pottery sherds".

The artefacts date back to the period during which the Jewish people began to return to the Land of Israel following the Babylonian exile (423 BC – 372 BC), a journey documented in the Book of Ezra, which is the last historical book in the Hebrew Bible..

“The impression depicts a man sitting on a large chair–probably a king–and in front of him columns,” said the the Israel Antiquities Authority.

This might picture a king and his subjects.


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Stone, Ezra, 2020. Unbreakable Spirit: Newly Discovered Seal Bears Witness to Jewish Resolve After Temple’s Destruction. United with Israel . 30 June.

Chinese Scientist Say modern-Looking Insects Are 99 Million Years Old. .

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It may sound odd, but all the insects preserved in amber in Myanmar are by evolutionist deemed to be 99 millions years old. This is because the daters only got to measure a piece that was thought to be 99 million years old. And now they report the song, as it were.

In a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Chinese scientist looked at the coloration of insects though to be 99 millions years old.

Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) Dr. Cai Chenyang, associate professor at NIGPAS who lead the study.

This is what he had to say.

"The rare set of amber fossils includes cuckoo wasps with metallic bluish-green, yellowish-green, purplish-blue or green colours on the head, thorax, abdomen, and legs. In terms of colour, they are almost the same as cuckoo wasps that live today, said Dr. Cai."

Now, if the insects were as old as they suppose, then it means no evolution for 99 million years. How dinosaurs turned into birds in a short span of time? is a question they have to address.

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Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2020. Amber fossils unlock true color of 99-million-year-old insects. Phys.Org. 30 June.

Evolutionists Suppose that 36 Civilisation Wait for US.

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Joel Kontinen


The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy may have declared that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42, but a team of astronomers has now revised that figure down to 36. More precisely, they say that among the several hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, there reside, roughly, three dozen civilizations advanced enough to communicate with us, the team reports today in The Astrophysical Journal. The scientists arrived at this number using the assumption that there is nothing special about our Solar System, and that another with a similar chemical makeup would also evolve advanced life in a similar span of time, The Guardian reports. The downside is that our nearest neighbour is likely to be 17,000 light-years away, making communication virtually impossible. Until, that is, we tune into Hitchhiker’s subether waveband.

Nonetheless, our solar system and our galaxy are special. they can harbour life.

Life does not occur when there's a lot of water. However, life has to be created.

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Clery, Daniel. 2020. Three dozen alien civilizations may be advanced enough to communicate with us. Science 15 June.