A snake with four legs is not a snake

 

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Joel Kontinen

 

A fossil once thought to be a snake with four legs, connecting lizards and early snakes, is not the missing link scientists had hoped for.

Published in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, a study led by paleontologist Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta disputed the findings of a team of researchers that reported their discovery of what they believed was the first known example of a four-legged snake fossil. They dubbed it Tetrapodophis amplectus in their study published in the journal Science in 2015.

According to evolutionists, it has long been understood that snakes are members of a lineage of four-legged vertebrates that, as a result of evolutionary specializations, lost their limbs," said Caldwell. "It has thus long been predicted that a snake with four legs would be found as a fossil."

The researchers in the original study estimated that T. amplectus was about 25 centimetres or 10 inches long.

Caldwell pointed out that all aspects of its anatomy are consistent with dolichosaurs: a group of extinct marine lizards from the Cretaceous period (145 to 66 million years ago).

The dates are wrong, also.  

Source:

Barillas, Martin M, 2021,  Four-Legged Snake Fossil a Fake, Scientists Say, Newsweek 21November.. 

Evolutinists found a 41,500-year-old pendant made of mammoth ivory in Europe

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Joel Kontinen   

Researchers have found the remains of a 41,500-year-old pendant made of mammoth ivory and decorated with puncture marks. according to evolutionists, it is the oldest the remains of a 41,500-year-old pendant made of mammoth ivory and decorated with puncture marks,

"The decoration of the pendant included patterns of over 50 puncture marks in an irregular looping curve, and two complete holes," the team said in a statement. They noted that each puncture could represent a successful animal hunt or cycles of the moon or sun. 

 

"It is the oldest known jewellery of its kind in Eurasia and it establishes a new starting date for a tradition directly connected to the spread of modern Homo sapiens in Europe," the researchers wrote in the study. 

 

However, the Genesiss record has modern humans right at the start.

 Source; 

Jarus  Owen, 2021,  41,500-year-old ivory pendant may be oldest human-decorated jewelry in Eurasia t Live Science 26 November 

Scientist warm of alien invaders on Earth

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Joel Kontinen

We might be invaded by alien organisms. Especially evolutionists believe that, as they don’t believe that God supplies live to all living beings. ,

According to them, the growing demand for space exploration is increasing the chances of alien organisms invading Earth and of Earth-based organisms invading other planets This is the story of a new study published Noember  17 in the journal BioScience.

The harsh conditions of outer space make it difficult for potential hitchhiking organisms to survive a ride on the outside of a human spacecraft.  

However, the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft that crashed into the Moon in 2019 while carrying thousands of tardigrades, microscopic animals that can survive extreme conditions, including the vacuum of space, 

The researchers also take a look at the earth’s ecosystem, at how invaging species have taken on new territory, especially in Australia. as the native wildlife in those places hasn't evolved adaptations to deal with such invaders.

But this might be evaded but putting a trust in the Creator. ,  

Source:    

Pester, Patrick, 2021. Alien organisms could hitch a ride on our spacecraft and contaminate Earth, scientists warn Live Science. 23 November,  

Archaeologists find the burned remains of an ancient Hellenistic fortress in Israel

 

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Joel Kontinen

Archaeologists have discovered the burned remains of an ancient Hellenistic fortress in Israel that fell to Jewish rebels more than 2,000 years ago. 

A guerrilla army called the Hasmoneans, also known as the Maccabees, defeated and set fire to the citadel during the revolt that is commemorated by the Jewish festival of Hannukkah. Researchers recently found the ruined stronghold at a site in the Lachshish Forest in the foothills of the Judean Mountains in southern Israel, representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. 

The fort was destroyed around 112 B.C. — decades after the Hanukkah miracle took place in Jerusalem — at a time when a Maccabee leader and Jewish high priest named Johanan (John) Hyrcanus was leading the Hasmoneans in their ongoing struggle for independence from the Seleucid Empire, IAA representatives said. 

Located atop a tall hill, the fortress would have provided a strategic view of the main road and of nearby Maresha, a bustling and important capital city during the Hellenistic period. The building was likely "part of a fortified line erected by the Hellenistic army commanders" and was intended to protect Maresha against Hasmonean attacks, according to the statement.

"However, the finds from the site show that the Seleucid defenses were unsuccessful," IAA excavation directors Saar Ganor, Vladik Lifshits and Ahinoam Montagu said in the statement. "The excavated building was badly burnt and devastated by the Hasmoneans."

The fort's perimeter measured about 15 metres or 50 feet in width and length, and the external stone walls were approximately 10 feet or 3 metres or 15 meters wide and were carved to slope outward, to foil climbers. On the inside, the archaeologists uncovered seven rooms that were roughly 2. 5 metres or 6.6 feet tall; a stairwell led to an upper level that was not preserved, but when that floor was intact the fort's height would have been about 16 feet or 5 metres long), IAA representatives said.

Under the rubble of the fort's collapsed upper level, the team discovered hundreds of artifacts. After clearing away thousands of stones, the archaeologists excavated iron weapons, slingshots, pottery and coins dating to the second century B.C. Charred wooden beams told the scientists that the fort had been overwhelmed by military forces and burned by the victors, who were likely Hasmoneans under Hyrcanus' leadership.

The Hasmoneans began organizing their resistance against the Seleucids following King Antiochus IV's desecration of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 168 B.C. The Maccabees (the word means "hammer" in Hebrew) eventually reclaimed and rededicated the temple, but could find only enough ceremonial oil to light the temple's new menorah for one day. According to the miracle of Hanukkah, that small quantity of oil burned for eight days — long enough for the temple priests to produce enough fresh oil to light the menorah anew each day. To commemorate the holiday, Jewish people light eight-branched menorahs over Hanukkah's eight nights.

This rsearch proves that Israel ruled the Holy Land befre the Arabs. 

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Weisberger, Mindy, 2021 Evidence of Hanukkah's Maccabee rebellion unearthed in Israel. Live Science 23 November. 

How do we measure the fitness of animals?

 

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  Joel Kontinen

How do we measure the fitness of animals?

Fitness is at the core of evolutionary theory, but Darwinist claim that it is difficult to measure accurately.

They say that it is difficult to measure the long-term fitness of animals, but they did it due to twenty years of precise field observations of a wild passerine bird population

These researchers used their study to come to grips with fitness.

But they could not find the answer. Natural selection that Darwin used in evolution did not give the results they wanted.   

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Ziva Alif et al. 2021. What is the best fitness measure in wild populations? A case study on the power of short-term fitness proxies to predict reproductive value bioRxiv 19 November .

Why do we exist? A hard question for evolutionists

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Joel Kontinen

Why do we exist? this is a hard question for those believing in evolution, as they do not get a God who created them in the beginning.

As God says we are created to seek Him, Evolutionist have to discern a way they exist,

 We are tiny specks of life in a vast, indifferent cosmos – but to say that decreases the value of our existence is to measure ourselves against the wrong thing,

They begin with the birth of our universe some 13.8 billion years ago and then to the birth of our home planet that they assune took place 4,5 billion years ago,  

Some evolutionists claim that God and mythologies game down in the 1700, when they began to upend our assumptions about our central place in the universe

 But that is just an atheist version of things ,It was the creationist,like Sir Isaac Newton, who first  made the world a larger place.  They saId that God was still in control.  

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 O'Callaghan, Tiffany, 2021, Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found in the stars, New Scientist 17 November. 

Answers in Genesis builds a replica of the Tower of Babel

 

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,Joel  Kontinen

Answers in Genesis (AIG), announced plans to build a replica of the Tower of Babel in order to combat racism that is becoming a banner cause of the left-wing. Even though the method may seem unconventional, the Bible-based reasoning behind the project blaming the theory of evolution for racism is convincing.

 Answers in Genesis opened the Ark Encounterr park in Grant County, Kentucky in 2016. The centerpiece of the park is a full-scale model of Noah’s Ark at 510 feet long and 81 feet high. In December 2016, for the holiday season, AiG lit the Ark with rainbow colours, aiming to “reclaim the symbol from the gay rights movement” and to remind viewers of the Noahic covenant. AiG reported that the Ark Encounter in its first year of operation attracted over 1 million visitors and aggregated 1.5 million total visitors for both the Ark and the the Creation Museum. 

 The Bible provides us with the true history of humanity. What people classify today as racial differences are rightly explained by the Babel event.

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Berkowitz Adam Eliyahu, 2021,  New Tower Of Babel To Be Built In Kentucky To Combat Racism And Ritical Race Theory Israel 365 News  17November 

Owen Jones attacks Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely

Joel Kontinen

Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely’s appearance Tuesday at the London School of Economics (LSE) ended with protesters trying to grab her. They say that Palestine was the Arabs homeland in spite of what God had promised Abraham. 

The Ediacaran Period is still an enigma for Darwin

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 539 million years ago, was marked by the rise of complex life on Earth.

Yang et al. found that Ediacaran evolution was not slow and steady but rather marked by intervals of rapid diversification interspersed with dramatic environmental change.

The authors present geochronologic data that better define the tempo of evolution and how changes in that tempo relate to changes in the global carbon cycle as evidenced by carbon isotopic measurements of carbonate rocks in the Ediacaran stratigraphy.

Evolution states that the process was cyclic: Specific assemblages of complex organisms persisted stably for tens of millions of years in each cycle, after which new assemblages arose over much shorter time intervals. Present data suggest that these bursts of diversification may have been caused by rapid environmental changes associated with changes in the carbon cycle.

Poor evolutionists cannot discern the causes for these episodes of environmental change. But the Genesis model can..

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Hodges, Kip. 2021. Evolutionary Biology The variable tempo of early evolution. Science. 

Climate change killed the woolly mammoths

 

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Joel Kontinen

A new study, published in Nature  20 October 2021, was led by Professor Eske Willerslev, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and director of The Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, University of Copenhagen. says that humans did not kill the woolly mammoths.

They say that climate change did the trick.

They also say that mammoths weathered several Ice Ages.

According to evolution, humans and woolly mammoths lived together for 5 million years, but then – climate change happened.

“When the climate got wetter and the ice began to melt it led to the formation of lakes, rivers, and marshes.” says Dr Yucheng Wang.

According to the creation model, woolly mammoths lived during the ice age following the Genesis Flood. We would not be surprised by the discovery of soft tissue and DNA in their fossils.

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University of Cambridge, 2021. Humans did not cause woolly mammoths to go extinct – climate change did it. University of Cambridge 20 October, 

Why only mammals have tusks?

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Joel Kontinen

Elephants have with tusks, but some other animals have them also, for instance warthogs, hippopotamuses and Arctic-dwelling walruses with tusks,

Researchers have found our that only mammals have them. They say that only mammals, who lived at a later stage of evolution,  have them.

In a new paper published October 27 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B researchers trace the first tusks back to ancient mammal relatives that lived before the dinosaurs. No fish, reptiles, or birds with have tusks.

The simple reason is that God made them. Their trunk is intelligenty made, 

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Harvard University. 2021. Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved and why they are unique only to mammals Harvard University. 27 October.

A huge asteroid will come to us in December

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Joel Kontinen

The Earth will see an asteroid that is three times a football field.  It  is coming on rhe 11^th of December. passing us at 2,4 million miles, well inside the moon’s orbit,  

NASA has said that it won’ t be dangerous, as it will pass us by a wide margin, Yet it is called  a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA),

A spectacular fireball was seen in North Carolina,  Fireballs was also 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, 

Some say that a mysterious asteroid will begin the calamities in the book of Revelation.  

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Berkowitz Adam Eliyahu. 2021.  huge asteroid headed for earth in December. Israel 365 News, 7 November.  

Science thinks there was water on Mars

 

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Joel Kontinen

NASA’s Perseverance roverR  landed in Jezero crater on Mars in February 2021. Earlier orbital images showed that the crater contains an ancient river delta that was deposited by water flowing into a lake billions of years ago.

Mangold et al. analyzed rover images taken shortly after landing that show distant cliff faces at the edge of the delta. The exposed stratigraphy and sizes of the boulders allowed them to determine the past lake level and water discharge rates. An initially steady flow transitioned into intermittent floods as the planet dried out.

This history of the delta’s geology provides context for the rest of the mission and improves our understanding of Mars’ ancient climate.

Now, Science has included a story of how the discovery was made. They belive that water played a  mayor role in the red planet. 

Source  

Smith. Keith T 2021. Martian Geology Perseverance images of a delta on Mars Science 7 October,