Climate change. Getting Finland out of her swamps

 

Image courtesy of Hammonia  CC BY-SA 3.0.

Joel Kontinen

Like much of Europe, Finland was left the second world war left the country in economically bereft.

it needed to ramp up productivity fast and the government decided the answer was forestry, the country’s industrial backbone for generations.

Vast tracts of peatland were drained and trees planted, blanketing the swampy ground that covers nearly a third of the country. “These sites are incredibly carbon rich and often have high levels of biodiversity, but they’re not always the best for growing forests. “,

Now the ones who ones who try to make our environment save want to rId Finland of her swamps. 

Source:

Lane, Alasdair Pea. 2021. Peatlands in peril: The race to save the bogs that slow climate change New Scientist 29 DecemberÖ 

Human genes are become active after fertilization

 

Image courtesy of Walter De Maria, public domain.

Joel Kontinen

    

A new study has found out that genes are active from after fertilization challenges the textbook view that genes don't become active in human embryos until they are made up of four-to-eight cells, two or three days after fertilisation.

This is the way Christians have been saying all the time. This is a signal for abortion, as kids that old are fully human.

The newly discovered activity begins at the one-cellstage -- far sooner than previously thought -- promising to change the way we think about our developmental origins.

The research, published on the 21 December in Cell Stem Cell, was co-led by Professor Tony Perry at the University of Bath, Dr Giles Yeo at the University of Cambridge and Dr Matthew VerMilyea at Ovation Fertility, US.

”Using a method called RNA-sequencing, the team applied precision analysis to individual human eggs and one-cell embryos to make a detailed inventory of tell-tale products of gene activity, called RNA transcripts. It revealed that hundreds of genes awaken in human one-cell embryos. Because the gene activity starts small, previous techniques had not been sensitive enough to detect it.”

The researcher say that looking at biological process as the kinds are only at the one-cell embryo stage is a is a fundamental step.

Source:

University of Bath. 2021. Genes are switched on in the human embryo from the get-go. Science Daily.,  21 December..

 

Ichthyosaurs found in the driest place on Earth

Image courtesy of Stephanie Abramowicz. 

 

Joel Kontinen 

The fossil remains of one of the ocean’s earliest giants have been unearthed in Nevada, which according to Mirror, is one of the driest places on Earth. This brings to mind the global flood of Noah’s day, some 4,500 years ago. We can forget about evolution and its millions of years.

It is named Cymbospondylus youngorum. This ichthyosaur had a 2-metre-long skull and may have stretched around 17 metres in length.

Lars Schmitz at the W.M. Keck Science Department in California, a member of the team that analysed the remains, describes it as a “jaw-dropping” find.

According to evolution, ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles that lived between about 249 million and 90 million yearsago and had a body shape reminiscent of modern whales and dolphins. Some grew large, and C. youngorum was comparable in size to a modern sperm whale.

This ichthyosaur was found in 246 million-year-old rocks.

Evolutionists speculate that the earliest whales are believed to have evolved around 56 million years ago. It took another 50 million years to grow to the size some species are today.

Source:

Black, Riley, 2021. Prehistoric ichthyosaurs evolved rapidly to be as big as whales. New Scientist 23 December.  

Ichthyosaur – a new fossil that evolved.

 

Image courtesy of Heinrich Harder, public domain,

Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, the largest animals to have ever lived occupied the marine environment, early marine giant Scienceodern cetaceans evolved their large size over tens of millions of years in response to the increased productivity of cold marine waters.

 However, according to Darwinists, whales were not the first marine giants to evolve. Sander et al. describe a 244-million-year-old fossil ichthyosaur that would have rivalled modern cetaceans in size.

 The animal existed at most 8 million years after the emergence of the first ichthyosaurs, suggesting a much more rapid size expansion that may have been fuelled by processes after the Permian mass extinction.

 However, size does not involve evolution, God could have created the ichthyosaur as its own species from the beginning. 

At times, Darwinists has said these animals evolved sharp teeth to crush shellfish.  

 Darwinian folktales are interesting. Some, for instance warn of the use of predestination in biology, as we have four limbs because we have a belly - A new evolution story. 

Source:

Vignieri Sacha, 2021. Paleontology: Early marine giant Science. 24 December.

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Big floods can create false rings in trees

Joel Kontinen

Usually, a tree only grows one ring a year. Sometimes a tree will form more than one growth ring in a year. Now, such “false rings,” found in trees along the U.S. Gulf Coast, have been linked to hurricanes or maybe big floods.

“Clay Tucker, a geographer at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and his colleagues spent much of 2020 and this year wading and canoeing through stands of bald cypress trees across three river basins in coastal Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.”

“Tucker and his colleagues linked 20 instances of false rings since 1932 with big floods, as recorded by stream gauges.” This is what Science shows.

This clearly points to the Flood of Noah’s days as accounting for the false rings.

 17 DEC 2021

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Kornei, Katherine, 2021. ’False’ tree rings could provide a new record of long-ago hurricanes  Science    16.12.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Turning diamonds into methane

 

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to a recent study, diamonds can be made into methane. 

“The deep earth's carbon cycle accounts for about 90% of the whole carbon cycle. despite this, to date the cycle happening beneath the earth's surface is little known. this phenomenon is crucial to life on our planet as it allows carbon in the deep earth to get back to the atmosphere.”

This turns the Darwinian concept of science stating that climate change is based on science into changing carbon dioxide into something else is a not supported by science. We would not want the researchers turning our diamonds into methane.

Source:

Università di Bologna. 2021.Can diamonds originate methane? Università di Bologna. 14 December.

The cause of the Little Ice Age is a surprise for evolutionists

   

Image courtesy of  Hendrick Avercamp, public domain.

Joel Kontinen 

The little ice age brought crop failures, famines and pandemics throughout, Now scientist have seen crop failures, famines and pandemics throughout Europe been triggered by an unusually warm episode.

Now scientist have discovered that it was brought about by an unusually warm episode. Lead author Francois Lapointe, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in geosciences at UMass Amherst and Raymond Bradley say that a sudden change from very warm conditions in the late 1300s to unprecedented cold conditions in the early 1400s, only 20 years later.

Over the course of a few decades in the late 1300s and 1400s, vast amounts of ice were flushed out into the North Atlantic, which not only cooled the North Atlantic waters, but also diluted their saltiness.

According to Christianity, humans are responsible for taking good care of the Earth. God already gave us this mandate in Genesis and He has not repealed it. However, there is a big difference in taking care of nature and worshipping it.

Source:

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2021. Winter Is Coming: Researchers Uncover the Surprising Cause of the Little Ice Age University of Massachusetts at Amhers 15 December. 

 

Sea otters keep the cold away with a leaky mitochondria

 

·         Matt Knoth, CC BY 2.0. 

Joel Kontinen 

How do birds walk with without shoes in the winter. God has provided them with an intelligent design element to keep them from freezing.

A similar kind of design also keeps sea otters from getting cold? They have a leaky mitochondria

Sea otters are the smallest of the marine mammals, and do not have this thick layer of blubber. Instead, they are insulated by the densest fur of any mammal

Within the cell the cell are compartments called mitochondria where nutrients are converted into ATP a high-energy molecule that acts as the energy currency of the cell.

 

Source:-

Wright, Traver, Melinda Sheffield-Moore, and Randall Davis. Sea Otters Demonstrate that There Is More to Muscle than Just Movement—It Can Also Bring the Heat The  Scientist  13 December . 

Bizarre deep-sea fish sees through its forehead

 

 Image courtesy of Ezra Weller  CC BY 3.0

Joel Kontinen

Scientists have recently captured footage of a fish with a bulbous, translucent head and green orb-like eyes that peer out through its forehead.

The creature lives at   a depth of about 600 metres (2,000 ft) to 800 metres (2,600 ft), It is  called barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma).

While the fish might be extraordinary,seeing through its forehead,  God has decided tto create it like he wants to.

Source:

Lanese, Nicoletta. 2021.  New footage shows bizarre deep-sea fish that sees through its forehead.  Live Science 13 December 

What are words? Is a question Darwinists cannot answer

 

Luther’s Bible (1534). Image courtesy of Torsten Schleese.

Joel Kontinen

We use words all the time, but “they’re completely unknown in animal systems,” says linguist Noam Chomsky, Institute Emeritus Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We have no idea how they evolved, when they evolved, where they came from. “” He says we don’t really even know how they work. “We have very little understanding of how each person has [words] innately as part of their fundamental nature.”

Yes; Darwinists do not have an idea of how words began, Yet God made the whole universe by words, . As John1:1 states, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “

Even human babies are programmed to understand words.

Source: 

Connally, Matthew, 2021, What are words?World 11 December.

Smell is an Incredible Design

 

Image courtesy of Behzad Iravani.

Joel Kontinen

Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have been able to study what happens in the brain when the central nervous system judges a smell to represent danger

PNAS researchers at the Karolinska Institutet have been able to study what happens in the brain when the central nervous system judges a smell to represent danger

The research was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,

The olfactory organ takes up about five per cent of the human brain and enables us to distinguish between many million different smells.

Yes, smell s an Incredible Design.  

Beauty, intelligence and mathematics are seem in the world. 

Source:  

Sense of smell is our most rapid warning system Karolinska Institutet 14 October. .  

Earth sized exoplanet found

 

Image courtesy of Patricia Klein. 

Joel Kontinen

 Researchers have found an exoplanet that circles a nearby red dwarf star. They used radial velocity observations to measure the mass. it was a sub-Earth–sized planet with a density almost equivalent to pure iron.  This suggests that it had lost its outer mantle.

It seems that our planet and planet system is an oddball.  Planets orbiting a red dwarf starcannot be habitable.

Source:

 Smith Keith T, 2921, Exoplanets A nearby iron-rich sub-Earth planet. Science,  2 December. 

 

Found: Ankylosaur's tail looked like an Aztec war club

 

 

Image courtesy of Gabriel Diaz Yantén

Joel Kontinen

 

Researchers in Chile have found a dinosaur that looks like an ankylosaur that had a armoured tail that no other dinosaur had.

According to evolution, They were found at a time breaking apart of the supercontinent Pangea during the Jurassic Period (201.3 million to 145 million years ago) led to extreme differences between ankylosaurs on the northern supercontinent Laurasia and those on the southern supercontinent Gondwana, like this newfound species, named Stegouros elengassen. ankylosaur.

The researchers found this dinosaur, that was supposed to be 71.7 million and 74.9 million years ago in February 2018.  Its well preserved head skeleton was about 80% complete, and it's weird, because it's articulated [the bones are in order] from the waist down, and everything from the waist up was kind of scattered," says Alexander Vargas, a vertebrate paleontologist in the Department of Biology at the University of Chile. 

Source:

Geggel, Laura, 2021. 'Very weird' ankylosaur's tail looked like an Aztec war club Live Science. 1 December