A space rock Brightens up North Carolina

 

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Joel Kontinen

A spectacular fireball blazing at 32,000 mph or 51,500 km/h a spectacular fireball blazing across the skies above North Carolina on Friday evening (Sept. 24), the American Meteor Society (AMS) reported.

Fireballs was seen in England recently and in Norway,

A fireball could also have detonated over the ancient Middle Eastern city of Tall el-Hamman or Sodom around 3,600 years ago. It's possible that the explosion, which was roughly 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, set the city instantly ablaze before levelling it with a powerful shockwave, killing all of its inhabitants

That why the biblical Testament is always correct, 

Source:

Turner, Ben, 2021.  32,000 mph fireball spotted soaring over North Carolina Live Science 27 September.  

Manta rays inspire new device to filter microplastics

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Joel kontinen

Manta Rays can digest microplastics that are a source of pollution in the seas. This speaks about the care of God, who wants everything to be as efficient as He created it to be,

It also speaks of  biomimicry, that is putting His World into action, 

Source: 

Manta rays inspire new device to filter microplastics BBC World Service. 27 September 2021.  

Covid; Immune therapy from llamas shows promise

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Joel Kontinen

 

Professor James Naismith described nanobodies as "fantastically exciting".

 

It has been tested in lab animals such as rodents who recovered in six days when they were given a as a simple nasal spray - to treat and even prevent early infection.

 

Once the therapy has been tested in humans, scientists say, it could be given as a simple nasal spray - to treat and even prevent early infection.

 

"The immune system is so marvellous that it still does better than we can - evolution is hard to beat." 

But giving credit to evolution is not the way, God chose our immune system to walk the way it did.

Professor Naismith and his collaborators,  published their research in the journal Nature Communications,  

Source:

Gill, Victoria. 2021.  Covid: Immune therapy from llamas shows promise BBC News 22 September. 

A space rock that passes by the Earth is three times the size of the Statue of Liberty

 

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Joel Kontinen

An  asteroid, named 2021 NY1,  will zoom past the Earth soon.  

It will pass us by 1,560,000 kilomettres or 970,000 miles away from Earth. so it will not be the closest asteroid that passes us.That honour goes togoes to the asteroid 2020 QG, which zipped just 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometres or 1,830 miles miles  above the Indian Ocean on Aug. 16, 2020.

And more space rocks might even be a sign of the calamities of the Revelation in the Bible.

Source:

Specktor, Brandon. 2021 Asteroid three times the size of the Statue of Liberty will zoom past Earth on fall equinox Life Science. 22 September.  

Secular scientist say a space rock caused the desteruction of Sodom

 

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Joel Kontinen 

When the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding toward them at about 38,000 mph (61,000 kph).

According to Live Science, “Flashing through the atmosphere, the rock exploded in a massive fireball about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the ground. The blast was around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly. Air temperatures rapidly rose above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius). Clothing and wood immediately burst into flames. Swords, spears, mudbricks and pottery began to melt. Almost immediately, the entire city was on fire.”

Yes, at times God does use the nature to show us His glory. But the attack against Sodom was planned by Him as a retribution of their lifestyle.

The researchers have found tiny diamonds in what now is the explosion   They speak of an atomic blast. 

When the Bible describes historical matters, it always gets the facts, including the tiny details, right. Secular ancient writers were unable to deny the historicity of Jesus.

The Bible tells us about real people and real events, such as the earthquake mentioned by the prophet Amos and the one that occurred during Jesus’ crucifixion.

Source:

Moore, Christopher R. 2021. Space rock that destroyed ancient city may have inspired biblical story of Sodom. Live Science,  21 September. 

Mars means life for evolutionists

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, Mars was once covered with water, and for them, water means life.

But now, evolutionists cannot see Mars without life. So they seek it.   

“NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time boosting the case for ancient life on the RedPlanet.”

"If these rocks experienced water for long periods of time, there may be habitable niches within these rocks that could have supported ancient microbial life," said Stack Morgan.

Source:

Mars rocks collected by Perseverance boost case for ancient life. Phys.org 11 September.

Palestinian boy: Jerusalem “is occupied by the Israelis, and we are dema...

Joel Kontinen

This is what a Palestinian boy says about Jerusalem. Absent from his story is the presence of Israel that has been there for over 3,000 years. 

 Time and again,archaeologyhas confirmed that the Bible describes ancient history and culture accurately.

And it testifies that God gave the Promised Land to Jews.

Spiders Cared for Their Young

 

Image courtesy of Xiangbo Guo, Paul Selden and Dong Ren; Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 

Joel Kontinen

Spiders cared for their young, even when by evolutionists they were 99 million years old.

This timing is a hazard, as the world is not that old.  

The spiders were trapped in amber. A female Lagonomegopidae spider family guards her egg sac in a tree cavity-

They were mined in Myanmar. as an article in Science says they are 99 million years old, as that is the ony date for supposed amber fossils in Myanmar.,  They lived in in the Northern Hemisphere during the Creatacous period (145 million to 66 million years ago).

Source:

Geggel, Laura. 2021.  99 million-year-old spider mummies reveal moms cared for teeny spiderlings Live Science  14 September,.  

Tasmanian Tiger in Colour

Joel Kontinen

The Tasmanian Tiger looks like a dog although it is not. It is a marsupial, that shows it looked like a dog. Evolutionists believe this speaks about convergent evolution.  

The Darwinian explanation for the close resemblance between marsupials and placental mammals is convergent evolution, which really doesn’t explain anything.

Perhaps the best synonym for convergent evolution is Darwinian storytelling. Where there is no evidence, there always is a story, regardless of how unbelievable it might sound.

Genelle Guzman-McMillan on Surviving the September 11th Attack in NYC

Joel Kontinen 

This happened 20 years ago. 

Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last one pulled from the rubble in the World Trade Centre in 2001. She was from Trinidad, As the building collapsed, she thought her life was over.

But she remembering her mother, who had passed away in 1999, Then she thought about  God.  and then someone caught her hand - and pulled her off.

She says that this happening brought her to Christ. Now she just want to tell others what happened to her.  

Source: 

She Was the Last One Rescued from the World Trade Center, 2002. Guideposts . 

Coming internet apocalypse?

 

Image courtesy of NASA Goddard.  A solar storm, or coronal mass ejection (CME), erupts from the sun in August 2012, . 

Joel Kontinen

The Sun is mostly stable but at times solar storms can change the picture.

When that happens, underwater cables that connect nations could go offline for months, a new  study claims.

In 2012, a solar storm or coronal mass ejection erupted from the Sun., but it did not cause much havoc.  

The major storms, such as the one they had in 1859 and the other in 1921, may cause the Internet to go down, .

“Smaller storms can also pack a punch; one in March 1989 blacked out the entire Canadian province of Quebec for nine hours.”

The Solar storm could well be a signal of the coming apocalypse. There’s s alays hope in the midst of turmoil, 

Source: 

Specktor, Brandon. 2021. An 'Internet apocalypse' could ride to Earth with the next solar storm, new research warns.  Live Science 6 September.

Elephant’s trunk shows the effect of intellectual design

 

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Joel Kontinen

“The elephant proboscis (trunk) exhibits an extraordinary kinematic versatility as it can manipulate a single blade of grass but also carry loads up to 270 kilograms. “

Now. scientist ar the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, “showed have the elephant trunk emerges from the combination of a finite set of basic movements such as the propagation of an inward curvature and the formation of pseudo-joints.”

“The elephant trunk is flexible across its whole length: the coordinated contractions of the muscles result in twisting, bending, lengthening, shortening and stiffening, without any bone support.”

This is a source of intelligent desIgn, not evolution as the University of Geneva claims. the elephant cannot have evolved a better trunk, but god put it there at the beginning.

Many other features in animals bear the hallmarks of intelligent design. A recent study looked at the zebra’s tail, which is also a very effective tool.

Other examples include the Saiga antelope’s air-conditioning nose, the penguin’s anti-free feathers and an anti-crash system in birds, to mention just a few.

Source:  

 University of Geneva, 2021. How elephants evolved strategies that reduce the biomechanical complexity of their trunks Phys. org. 23 August.

Capybaras are taking over one district in Argentina

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Joel Kontinen

The animal kingdom is full of creatures that defy simplistic Darwinian explanations.

One of them is the world’s biggest rodent capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris). It is optimally designed for swamp life – with webbed feet, and ears and eyes high on the head so it can hear and see clearly while in water.

This South American rodent can weigh almost 80 kg (175 lbs) and have a body length of 100 – 130 centimetres (40 to 50 inches) without the very short tail, but it is no bully and prefers to eat grasses, aquatic plants, grains, melons, and squashes.

A large number of capybaras have been running rampant for weeks inside Nordelta, an  affluent neighbourhood north of Buenos Aires that is home to around 40,000 people.  

The capybaras have led to a war, while some people want to kill;them, some  “environmental activists have been protesting within Nordelta over the past week, many wearing mascot-like cardboard capybara headpieces, to call for the government to protect the capybaras and allow them to remain within their once-natural habitat, according to La Nacion. “

Some other creatures, such as the binturong (Arctictis binturong) or bearcat, star-nosed mole, spiny anteater, platypus and the warm-blooded fish opah (Lampris guttatus), also defy Darwinian thinking.

Source:

Baker. Harry, 2021. World's largest rodents are taking over a fancy gated community in Argentina Live Science  3. September. 

Tardigrates walk like insects 500,000 times their size

 

Image courtesy of  Jasmine Nirody. 

Joel Kontinen

Tardigradess are living fossils that were one of the animals that evolutionists believe were in the cambrian  strata “530 million years” ago, which means that evolutionists see them as one of the oldest kinds of living fossils.

They don’t have legs., so scientist did not know how they used their limbs.  Now they have found out.

“Tardigrades in the species hypsibius exemplaris revealed that their movements closely resembled locomotion in insects about 500,000 times their size, despite being separated by around 20 million years of evolution and belonging to a different phylum.”

That is, according to darwinists, but tardigradess use an intellectual design feature.

Source:

Weisberger, Mindy. 2021.  Why tiny tardigrades walk like insects 500,000 times their size Live Science 1 September.

Little green men did not sent fast radio bursts

 

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Joel Kontinen

Research has shown that magnetars are responsible for most, if not all, fast radio bursts or FRBs.

“Scientists connected two of the largest radio telescopes in the world to take a close look at the mysterious "colors" of the intergalactic phenomena known as fast radio burst.

FRBs are some of the most energetic outbursts in the universe, packing more energy than the sun produces in three days into blips of light that last just a few milliseconds..

One explanation for this FRB's predictable, repetitive schedule suggests that a binary star system is involved; every two weeks or so, the FRB source moves in front of its companion star (relative to Earth), briefly permitting the FRB's light to shine across space toward our telescopes.”

So, we should not believe that little green men are behind the bursts.

 

Source:

Specktor,Brannon. 2 021.  Scientists detected the radio 'colors' of a fast radio burst for the first time Live Science 27.4.