Plesiosaurs Show 22 Million Years Without Evolution

 Image courtesy of Karen Carr Studio Inc. 

Joel Kontinen

22 million years is a long time, including in evolution. It is three times the much that a chimpanzee or the like turned into a man.  And the time a wolve like animal turned into awhale.

The plesiosaurs lived between during the Cretaceous Period, which spanned from 145 million years ago to 66 million years ago.

”’ Basically, in anything except Living fossils, youdon't go 22 million years without evolving,’ said Jacobs, professor emeritus of Earth Sciences at SMU and president of ISEM at SMU.”

SMU stands for Southern Methodist University.  

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CT scan of an ancient reptile skull reveals little evolutionary change over 22 million years SMU 25 August, 

Your Body's Molecular Machines

Joel Kontinen

This video is from 2017, but the science hasn’t changed that much.  It says that our body is wanderfully made, 

Evolutionists: the whale ancestor has been found

 

Image courtesy of  Robert W. Boessenecker. 

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionist have found a walking whale ancestor. it was  named after the Egyptian god of death.

They think that this walking whale, it was so terrible that they called it the Egyptian god of death, 

They think that it lived 43 million years ago. It was  so fearsome, that paleontologists have named it after Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death.

 It was 3 meters or 10 foot long,  It brings to mind Pakicetus that for a while was the evolutionists ancient whale.

Darwinists have also called an otter a whale. 

 The study was published online Wednesday (Aug. 25) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Geggel, Laura, 2021, Walking whale ancestor named after Egyptian god of death Live Science 25 August. 

Gold Byzantine coin depicting crucifixion

 

Gold Byzantine coin depicting crucifixion discovered near Tel Aviv.  Image courtesy of Yoli Schwartz.

Joel Kontinen  

An archaeological dig in Ramat HaSharon, a suburb of Tel Aviv, uncovered some remarkable finds including a wine press with an ornate mosaic floor and a Byzantine gold coin depicting the crucifixion of Jesus.

 The gold coin was believed to be minted in 638 or 639 AD by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius who is depicted on one side of the coin with his two sons. The flip-side of the coin depicts the crucifixion of Jesus, as the Bible says.  

Thus archaeology states that Jesus was a Jew, contradicting the views of Arabs who say the opposite  - that he was a Palestinian.

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Berkowitz , Adam Eliyahu  2021, Gold Byzantine Coin Depicting Crucifixion Discovered Near Tel Aviv. Israel 365 News 24 August.   

New Scientist says that Arabia was wetter in the past – reminds me of the Genesis Flood

 

Image courtesy of Andrea Ucini

Joel Kontinen

Michael Marshall in  new scientist says “It was somewhere they settled for long stretches of time. Indeed, many researchers now think Arabia should be thought of as part of a “greater Africa”, and that the peninsula played an important role in human evolution and expansion across the world.”

He also says “ that Arabia was not a mere stopover for ancestral humans leaving Africa, but a lush homeland where they flourished and evolved.” He also says that Arabia had a lot more rain that today – this speaks of the Genesis Flood.

This is keeping up with the history the Bible says in Genesis 10, where the people after Noah’s  Flood habited the Earth.

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Marshall Michael. 2021. The other cradle of humanity: How shaped human evolution. New Scientist 18 August

Dinosaur era turtle egg found

Yuchelys nanyangensis hatching from its tennis ball-size egg.  Image couresty: Masato Hattori.

Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, some 90 million years ago, a giant turtle laid an egg. The eggshell was incredibly thick. The egg was donated by a farmer. Now, scientist have been able to study it in detail.

Evolutionists believe that the terrestrial turtle Yuchelys nanyangensis  died around 66 million years ago, at the time when an asteroid struck the world, killing the dinosaurs

The egg is huge:  “At 2.1 by 2.3 inches (5.4 by 5.9 centimeters) in size, the nearly spherical egg is just a bit smaller than a tennis ball. That's larger than the eggs of most living turtles, and just a tad smaller than the eggs of Galapogas tortoises, Darla Zelenitsky said. “

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Geggel, Laura. 2021. Rare embryo from dinosaur age was laid by human-size turtle Live Science  18 August. 

 

“49 million years" old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday

 

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Joel Kontinen

Once again, This is happening all the time to evolutionists. “A beetle that lived about 49 million years ago is so well-preserved that the insect looks like it could spread its strikingly patterned wing coverings and fly away.”

That is, the creature could be much younger than what’s they say. , It might have died in the Genesis Flood some 4,500. years ago ,   

The findings were published August. 6 in the journal Papers in Paleontology.

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Weisberger, Mindy. 2021.  49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday Live Science 15 August.

Up In Flames: Abbas-backed Palestinians Equate Israel to Nazi Germany

Joel Kontinen

Some Palestinians are using Nazi symbols to embarrasses the Jews. This what happened in Samaria just now.   

Dogs understand our body language

 

IMAGE COURTESY OF  Canine Companions For Independence, 

Joel Kontinen

Dogs were meant to be man’s best friend. They were not originally wolves, as the evolutionists suppose but were meant to be our companions. Now, scientist have made research on how dogs can understand our thoughts and words.    

“Scientists have known for more than 2 decades that dogs understand the logic behind a surprisingly complex gesture: When we point at something, we want them to look at it. That insight eludes our closest relatives – according to evolution - ,  chimpanzees, and helps our canine companions bond with us.”   

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Grimm, David, 2021. These adorable puppies may help explain why dogs understand our body language Science 17 August,  

Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Caribbean

Image courtesy of NASA. 

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Joel Kontinen

Bottlenose dophins are clever hunters.Some evolutionist believe that they are alost human. 

A few work alongside human fishers, coaxing fish ashore. Others use shells to catch their food. In the Florida Keys, some use “mud rings” – and now the behaviour has been documented in the Caribbean too.

The mud ring hunting strategy is a case of blindsiding prey. A “ring maker” dolphin circles near the ocean floor and traps fish behind a ring of mud as others lie in wait with mouths open, and lunge to catch any fish attempting to escape the mud by jumping out of the water.

This is an instance of intelligent design  that a few animals show. 

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 Kentish,  Alison. 2021.  Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Caribbean New Scientist 6 August.  

More Victories for Christian alheletes in Tokyo

Athing Mu, Instagram ,

Joel KontInen

Sydney McLaughlin, US Olympian Gold Medalist Gives “All Glory to God” After Breaking her Five mounts old World Record. She is not the only believing athlete in the Olympics. 

South Africa’s Tatiana Schoenmaker, who won the 200-meter backstroke, is also a Christian, as is a part of the Fiji rugby team, who sang praise to the Lamb and praise to God after winning gold in Tokyo.

And then Nicola McDermott from  Australia won the silver medal ib the high jump.

Athing Mu, who comes from South Sudan, won Olympic gold in the 800m as a 19-year-old. She’s the first U.S. woman to win the event since 1968. “As a follower of Christ, our main goal is to live in the image of Jesus in order to connect to God.” She, along with Sydney McLanguin, also won a gold in the 4x 400 metres final,  

Another U.S. Olympian who set a record despite incredible challenges is 400m sprinter Allyson Felix. In Tokyo, she earned the distinction of becoming the most decorated U.S. track star in history, with 11 medals over five Olympics. However, she almost didn’t live to see this one.

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Stonestreet, John, 2021.  Olympic Stories More Lovely than Silver and Costly than Gold. Colson Center for Christian 8.Worldview,12 August. 

 

Evolutionists propose more photosyntesis, more life

 

Image courtesy of Stephen Hudson, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Joel Kontinen

Today, oxygen fuels much of life on Earth, but it wasn't always that way. Three billion years ago, this gas was scarce in the atmosphere andoceans.

 

Knowing why oxygen became plentiful could illuminate the evolution of our planet's flora and fauna, but scientists have struggled to find an explanation satisfying to all.

 

Now, a research team has proposed a novel link between how fast our planet spun on its axis—which defines the length of a day—and the ancient production of additional oxygen.

Their modelling of Earth's early days, which incorporates evidence from microbial mats coating the bottom of a shallow, sunlit sinkhole in Lake Huron, produced a surprising conclusion: As Earth's spin slowed and led to longer days, that could have triggered more photosynthesis from similar mats, allowing oxygen to build up in ancient seas and diffuse up into the atmosphere.

 

 Why did the Earth freeze to death in its infancy?

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Pennisi, Elizabeth. 2021. Longer days on early Earth set stage for complex life, Science 373, 6555, pp. 607-608.

Archaeologists Find New Section of Jerusalem's Ancient City Wall

Joel Kontinen 

Israel’s Antiquities Authority finds large portions of the wall destroyed by the Babylonians more than 2,500 years ago. The Babylonians took the city captive and the time for Jews exile had happened  just as it says in the Bible.

South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker says all glory to God in her swim cap

 

Image courtesy of AP photo Charlie Riedel.

Joel KontInen

Sydney McLaughlin, US Olympian Gold Medalist Gives “All Glory to God” After Breaking her Five mounts old World Record. She is not the only believing athlete in the Olympics. 

South Africa’s Tatiana Schoenmaker, who won the 200-meter backstroke, is also a Christian, as is a part of the Fiji rugby team, who sang praise to the Lamb and praise to God after winning gold in Tokyo.

 South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker, who has broken multiple records at the games this week, has worn a swim cap under her official team cap that reads “Soli Deo Gloria”—all the glory to God.

South African Olympic swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker set a new record Wednesday in the women’s 200-meter breaststroke — and she used her spotlight to point others to God.

Underneath her green swim cap, Schoenmaker wore a white one with a Jesus fish and the phrase “Soli Deo Gloria,” which means “Glory to God alone,” printed on the side of it.

“Father God, may Your will be done, may Your peace fill us up, may we praise You no matter what the outcome, may we be empowered by Your strength to give our all and may we forever be in awe of Your goodness!” she wrote in an Instagram post as she traveled to Tokyo for the Olympics. “Thank You for bringing us to this very moment.”

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 Schoenmaker set a new record for the women’s 200-meter breaststroke on Wednesday during the preliminary rounds of the event with a time of 2:19.16, then won gold and set a new record with a time of 2:18.95.

She also broke a record during the preliminary rounds for the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday.

Ahead of the games, the Christian swimmer posted a prayer to Twitter and Instagram praying for God’s will to be done and that, no matter what, His name would be glorified.

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Johnston, Elizabet.  2021. elizabetjohnston.com.  31 July.

Archaeologists discovered in Jerusalem evidence of an earthquake that is.referred to in the Book of Amos

image courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority.

Joel Kontinen

Archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem’s City of David National Park revealed a mysterious layer of destruction that researchers believe was from an earthquake referred to in the Book of Amos.

Researchers found inside a collapsed building a layer of shattered bowls lamps, jars and other utensils.

The pattern of the destruction and the absence of any signs of fire indicates the destruction was caused by an earthquake which occurred in the eighth century BCE during the Kingdom of Judah — the same earthquake referred to in Amos,

This is no surprise. We would expect the Bible to describe real people and real historical events. 

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 WATCH: Jerusalem Excavation Reveals Evidence of Biblical Earthquake United With Israel 4 August,  

For evolutionists, sponge is the oldest animal

 

Image courtesy of E.C. Turner.

Joel Kontinen 

According to evolutionists, the origin of  sponges, one of the first animals to evolve, have been found in rocks from 890 million years ago.

“It seems at first glance that this is a very radical paper,” says Elizabeth Turner at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada, who made the discovery. However, she says the fossils she found fit with other evidence.

for years the oldest animals were from the Cambrian perIod, which bagan  which began 541 million years ago. 

However, recently some fossils   from the earlier Ediacaran period  (635 to 541 millions years ago have been identified as animals. There are also 660-million-year-old chemical traces that may be from sponges.

It seems that the quest for the first living creatures has begun, but according to the Bible, all craetures were created in the beginning, 

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 Marshall, Michael, 2021,Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 million years ago New Scientist  28 July.