No Little Green Men On Earth-Sized Exoplanet

Image courtesy of Jan Skowron, Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw.

 Joel Kontinen

Earth like objects are unique. We consider them to float around their sun. Now, the biggest free-floting or rogue planets appeares to have been huge -  ”40 times the mass of Jupiter (one Jupiter is equivalent to about 300 Earths).”

 A discover, reported recently in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, may mark the smallest rogue planet ever detected, and it could help prove a long-standing cosmic theory.. According to the study authors, this little world could be the first real evidence that free-floating, Earth-sized planets may be some of the most common objects in the galaxy.

We would not like to see little green men on the planet, as have to be created.

 

Source:

Specktor, Brandon. 2020. An Earth-size planet is careening untethered through the galaxy, scientists find. Live Science  29 October 

Evolutionists: Meteorite That Crashed In Michigan Holds Extraterrerrial Organic Compounds

 

Philipp Heck et al., Field Museum, fair use doctrine.

Joel Kontinen

A meteorite that landed on a frozen lake in 2018 contains thousands of organic compounds that formed billions of years ago and could hold clues about the origins of life on Earth, 

According to evolution, the parent asteroid formed about 4.5 billon years ago,

According to evolutionists, the transformation from extraterrestrial organic compounds into the first microbial life on Earth is "a big step" that is still shrouded in mystery, but evidence suggests that organics are common in meteorites — even in thermally metamorphosed meteorites such as the one that landed in Michigan, he added. Meteor bombardment was also more frequent for a young Earth than it is today, "so we are pretty certain that the input from meteorites into the organic inventory on Earth was important," for seeding life, the study leader Philippe Heck said.

Source: 

Weisberger,Mindy. 2020. 'Fireball' meteorite that crashed in Michigan holds extraterrestrial organic compounds. Live Science  28 October. 

Water on the Moon

 Image courtesy of ESA/NASA.

Joel Kontinen

When NASA said that there was water on the Moon. Evolutionists said that during the Moon´s billions of years that was certain to happen, as our Moon is bombarded by thousands of meteorites, comets etc. They are taught to bring water.

But if the water had been there from the beginning, this would bring to light some creationist’s view of space being full of water.

However, the NASA will rerun to water to build a space station on the Moon  or to use it for travel to Mars.

Sourse:

Gill, Victoria. 2020.  Water on the Moon could sustain a lunar base.  BBC News 26 October.
 

 

Biden Tries To Play With China’s Communist Party

 Image courtesy of U.S. Department of State, public domain,

Joel Kontinen 

Is China about to interfere in the US elections?

Both 2020 presidential candidates have been offered such barely disguised bribes. One candidate’s son-in-law was offered a half-billion-dollar “investment” into his family’s real estate firm. Jared Kushner — recognizing a bribe for what it was — sent the CCP operative packing. The other candidate’s son accepted a $1.5-billion “investment.” Then Hunter Biden went back to China at least five times for more.

Nobody pays useless money to a drug addict. The intended recipient of this largess was obviously “Pop” Joe Biden.

Now “Pop” says that he knows nothing — zip, zilch, nada — about his son’s business dealings in China and elsewhere. Son Hunter, on the other hand, complains in an email extracted from his defunct laptop that he has to give half of his earnings to “Pop.” 

Now, the thing was recorded on hunter’s computer, and dead computers don’t lie. 

Then comes Rudy Giuliani, who says: “[Joe Biden]’s asking to be president of the U.S. and he’s in partnership with the Chinese Communist Party. The Biden Family is owned by the Chinese Communist Party

Source: 

 Mosher, Steven W, 2020.  China has bought and paid for Joe Biden and his entire family  Life Site News 19 October.

Iran Tries to Interfere In Us Elections To Bring Down Trump

 

Ali Khamenei, CC BY 4,0

Joel Kontinen

 In 2016, the Democrats accused Trump of using Russia to get more votes. Now, they have an ally in Iran, who wished them well.- He is Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran.

They have also got support from Big tech.

Big tech, that has taken the videos of https://joelkontinen.blogspot.com/2020/08/big-tech-takes-stand-against-covid-19.htmlAmerican Frontline Doctors off screen, 

Now They did the same with Kimberley Klack, They don-t want people to see that black lives matter has a different ending.

And now the directors of  Big Tech are sued by some conservatives,

NOW, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe confirmed on Wednesday that Iran is sending out fake emails to Americans in an effort to “intimidate voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump.”

“You may have been one of the recipients of one of those emails” Ratcliffe warned the American people. The DNI director also said that Iran has distributed a propaganda video to Americans claiming that the ballots can be hacked by foreign actors.

Warning Americans not to believe the videos, Ratcliffe called the actions “desperate attempts by desperate adversaries.” He added that their goal is to “intimidate or undermine voter confidence.” However Ratcliffe ended his press conference with a message of reassurance saying “you can be confident that your votes are secure.”

 Ratcliffe also said that the intelligence community including the FBI and DHS caught the subterfuge “immediately” and acted “swiftly.”

The emails Ratcliffe was referring to, were sent to voters in Alaska and Florida pretending to have been sent by the ‘Proud Boys’. The Proud Boys gained national notoriety after President Trump was asked to denounce them during his debate against Joe Biden. Despite the fact that their chairman, Enrique Tarrio, is a black Cuban, the group has been accused of being ‘white supremacists.’

The fake emails purportedly coming from the Proud Boys, warned the recipients that the Proud Boys have all of their personal information and that they know this because they have “gained access to the entire voting infrastructure.”  The letter goes on to threaten “You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you.”

The email then demanded the recipient “change their party affiliation to Republican” to let them know that they will comply. It concluded with a veiled threat reading “I would take this seriously if I were you.”

Source: 

Sidman David . 2020. Iran Caught Interfering In Us Elections To Bring Down Trump Israel365 News 23 October

Was Jesus a magician?

 

 

A wooden door at the Santa Sabina Church in Rome shows Jesus with a “wand" performing miracles: (top to bottom) Jesus raising Lazarus; Jesus multiplying loaves and fish; Jesus turning water into wine. Image courtesy of Lee Jefferson, fair use doctrine,

Joel Kontinen

Ancient art throughout the catacombs of Rome, painted on the walls and carved into stone coffins, shows Jesus as he multiplies loaves of bread, heals the sick and brings the dead back to life. These images are unified by one surprising element: In each of them, Jesus appears to brandish a wand. That led scholars to wonder: Did ancient Christians see Jesus as a magician? 

However, most evidence suggests that early Christians did not see Jesus as a magician. For them, magic was a human pursuit that could not raise the dead and do the things Jesus did with the power of God.  

While many detractors of Christianity, like Celsus, a vocal critic of Christianity saw that Jesus used magic. .Lee Jefferson and Felicity Harley-McGowan take the view that the wand that this was false. Magic was forbidden in the Roman Empire.

They point to Jesus, who carried the wand like Moses, "He's kind of like a new Moses," Jefferson said.

Source: 

Whitcomb, Isobel. 2020.  Was Jesus a magician? Live Science  18 October.

Tardigrates Fight UV Rays With Glowing Shield

Image courtesy of Harikumar R. Suma and Sandeep M. Eswarappa, fair use doctrine,

Joel Kontinen

 

Tardigrates are mystery to evolution, they came forth in the Cambrian Explosion and as one of the first living fossils, they are still living with us. .

 Though small, tardigrates  are known for their toughness.

“Scientists have discovered yet another reason to be impressed with tardigrades; some of these microscopic, nearly indestructible creatures wear a glowing "shield" that protects them from ultraviolet radiation. 

tardigrates  Tubby tardigrades — also called moss piglets or water bears — are known for their toughness, able to withstand extreme heat, cold and pressure, as well as the vacuum of space. They can also survive exposure to levels of radiation that would kill many other life-forms.

The Scientists Tested Paramacrobiotus tardigrades' UV resistance by exposing them to 15 minutes of radiation at levels high enough to kill most microorganisms. All of the Paramacrobiotus tardigrades were still alive 30 days later, while Hypsibius exemplaris tardigrades that were UV-sensitive all died within 24 hours of radiation exposure, according to the study.”

The tardigrade’s traits speak of a Designer  a  who  skilfully made every living creature.

Source:

Weisberger, Mindy . 2020, Adorable tardigrades fight UV rays . Live Science  I6 October 

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Why Turkey is flexing its muscles abroad

 

Image courtesy of Reuters, fair use doctrine.

 

Joel Kontinen

 

Since coming to power in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has opted to restore the Turkish empire, as it was under the Ottomans. He sees the west in decline and sees a China and Russia as potential sources of refuge,

 

According to the BBC, Turkey has in the past few years

"-launched three military incursions into Syria

- sent military supplies and fighters to Libya

- deployed its navy to the Eastern Mediterranean to assert its claims in the region

- expanded its military operations against Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq

- sent military reinforcements to Syria's last rebel-held province of Idlib

- recently threatened a new military operation in northern Syria to confront "terrorist armed groups". "

But Kurds say the only terrorist is Mr. Endogan.

And its almost warfare with Greece and Cyprys over drilling rights in the Mediterranean that has also caused harm to Israel, who has made a treaty with Greece and others to Europe to export natural gas to Europe.  

And it has let Hamas use its soil  to attack israel,

The BBC also took up Turkey’s 2015 failed coup that led to Mr. Edgogan rise in power, leading him to punish the Kurds in Syria.  

Source:

Tol, Gonul. 2020. Viewpoint: Why Turkey is flexing its muscles abroad.  BBC News 16 October.

Are We Living In A Simulation?

 

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Joel Kontinen

Are we living in a simulation? an argument in Scientific American and then posted in Life Science, say that the probability is 50–50.

The article goes back to the years 2003, when “Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford wrote a seminal paper about the simulation argument, philosophers, physicists, technologists and, yes, comedians have been grappling with the idea of our reality being a simulacrum.”

if we are simulated beings, then we lose our Genesis-given rights to be individuals, who are responsible for their task and duties. That is, we cease being humans with moral skills.

Then comes astronomer David Kipping, of Columbia University who ”began by turning the trilemma into a dilemma. He collapsed propositions one and two into a single statement, because in both cases, the final outcome is that there are no simulations. Thus, the dilemma pits a physical hypothesis (there are no simulations) against the simulation hypothesis (there is a base reality—and there are simulations, too). “You just assign a prior probability to each of these models,” Kipping says. “We just assume the principle of indifference, which is the default assumption when you don’t have any data or leanings either way.”

But the argument has a fair amount of those who say it’s not possible. so maybe, we’ll still living in an un-simulated world,

Source:

Ananthaswamy, Anil. 2020.  Do we live in a simulation? Chances are about 50–50. Live Science  14 October.

 

Amber Insects Fossil Still Glow

 

 

Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Joel Kontinen

The insects can be dated back to the Cretaceous period, which occurred 99 million years ago. The animals were all preserved in pieces of amber from a mine in northern Myanmar. The insects—a beetle, a fly, and a wasp—are so well-preserved in the amber that their true color could be identified.

“The way that the colour is preserved in these things is really remarkable,” says James Lamsdell, a University of West Virginia paleobiologist who was not involved in the research.

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.

"In terms of colour, they are almost the same as cuckoo wasps that live today," said Dr, Cai Chenyang, who led the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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. The Genesis worldview with its global flood can answer the question.

Source:

Eschner Kat 2020. These insects preserved in amber are still glowing 99 million years later   Popular Science 2 July.

Planets More Hospitable To Life Than Earth May Already Have Been Discovered

 

Image: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

 

  

Astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, so far. even the planet that most resembled the Earth, is not habitable,

For example, planet KELT-9b is so hot that its atmosphere is constantly melting. The darkest known planet, TrES-2b, has an atmospheric temperature of 980 degrees Celsius or1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. On the other end of the inhospitable spectrum is GJ 433 d, whose discoverers described it as the coldest Neptune-like planet ever discovered. 

However, according to evolutionists, at least two dozen planets outside the solar system might be better for life than  Earth,

These planets are just a little older, a little wetter, a little warmer and a little larger than Earth is, researchers wrote Sept. 18 in the journal Astrobiology. All of these factors could mean that some of these planets are the best places to search for extraterrestrial life. 

"We have to focus on certain planets that have the most promising conditions for complex life. However, we have to be careful to not get stuck looking for a second Earth because there could be planets that might be more suitable for life than ours," University of Washington astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch said .

 A better version of Earth might also have a slightly larger moon, or a moon slightly closer to the planet, which would help stabilize its orbit and prevent life-disrupting wobbles, the researchers wrote. 

 The researchers came up with a set of parameters to use to meet all these criteria. According to them,  the perfect superhabitable planet would be in orbit around a K dwarf star, which is a relatively small star star that’s slightly cooler than our sun (which is considered a yellow dwarf); about 5 billion to 8 billion years old; about 10% larger than Earth; about 9 F (5 C) warmer than Earth, on average; moist with an atmosphere that is 25% to 30% oxygen, with scattered land and water. The perfect planet would also have plate tectonics or a similar geological process in order to recycle minerals and nutrients through the crust and to create diverse habitats and topography, and would have a moon between 1% and 10% of its size orbiting it at a moderate distance.

It's not possible to evaluate distant exoplanets on all these criteria. There is no way to calculate an exoplanet's landmass area, for example, much less how it's distributed. 

So, this research did not come up with “more hospitable than Earth” criteria. Even if a super Earth was found, life has to be planted there – by God.

Source:

Pappas, Stephanie, 2020. Planets more hospitable to life than Earth may already have been discovered. Live Science  10 0ctober.