Convergent evolution but where is the evidence?

 

Image courtesy of Jon Richfield, CC BY-SA 4.0. 

Joel Kontinen

A paper in PNAS mentions the word evolution 15 times, but the evidence for it is completely lacking.

Here is how it goes:

“Behavioral data show that the red pigment attracts diurnal geckos, the likely pollinator of one of these plants.”

“These findings join a growing list of examples of distinct biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying evolutionary convergence and provide a fascinating system for testing how interactions across species drive the evolution of novel pigments in an understudied context.”

So that what it had to do with evolution.

Source:  

Roy,  Rahul  et al, 2022,  Convergent evolution of a blood-red nectar pigment in vertebrate flowers PNAS February 1,

"500 million-year-old " fossils have stunningly preserved nervous systems

Image courtesy of Ortega-Hernández et al. 2022, Nature Communications. 

Joel Kontinen

Scientist have found nerve tissue within a small fossil. According to evolution, the creature lived in the Cambrian rock layers.  

It was called Mollisonia symmetrica.  Two of them were found.. One  of them is just 0.5 inches (13 millimeters) long and 0.1 inches (3.5 mm) wide at its widest point, the other is  0.3 inches (7.5 mm) long and 0.06 inches (1.7 mm) tall. 

The researcher say that it was just difficult to find so small creatures from around 500 million years ago. And they don’t know where to put the creature in the evolutionary tree. 

Source:

Lanese, Nicoletta. 2022. 500 million-year-old, bug-like fossils have stunningly preserved nervous systems, Live Science 28 January, 

It is winter in Greece and Turkey

 

Image courtesy of (AP/EmrahGurel).

Joel Kontinen

Greece and Turkey have experienced their winter that is expected in the North of Europe.

It is cold in Athens and Istanbul, It has dropped more than 80 centimetres or 31 inches of snow in some areas. A homeless man in Thessaloniki had died and authorities recovered the body a 34-year-old who is believed to have died in heavy snowfall while trying to reach his village in Amasya province, 326 kilometres (202 miles) northwest of Ankara.

Temperatures dropped way below freezing in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia. In Bosnia, ice formed on the Miljacka River after a minus 15 C (5 F)temperature was recorded in the capital of Sarajevo on Tuesday.

Source:

Associated Press. 2022, Winter storm heads towards Israel after paralyzing Turkey and Greece World Israel News 25 January. 

Largest ever fish colony found under the Antarctic ice

 

Image courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute / PS124 AWI OFOBS team.

Joel Kontinen

Researchers have found a large fish colony in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. It covers 240 square kilometres.

It is a largest colony of fish in the world.

”Autun Purser at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany and his colleagues discovered the breeding ground by chance when they went on a six-week expedition to the polar region in February 2021.”

“It looked computer generated how structured these nests were,” says Purser. Each nest had one adult fish and about 1500 to 2000 eggs. “We don’t know how long they take before they hatch or even how many will survive,” he says.

Yes, Antarctica was believed to be destitute of all animals except for penguins on some shores, but when God has put animals iin extraordinary places, we cannot but bow down in amazement.  

Source:

Murugesu, Jason Arunn. 2022, Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under ice. New Scientist. 13 January,

Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?

Joel Kontinen

Arabs will not approve Israel. They say it is just a coloniser. But they have not taken its history as fact.

According to evolution, Mars may have had a liquid water ocean 3 billion years ago

 

Image courtesy of NASA / USGS / ESA / DLR / FU Berlin (G. Neukum).

Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, Mars may have had a liquid water ocean 3 billion years ago, The research shows that there is strong geological evidence that Mars once had an ocean, such as ancient shorelines/

“Now, Frédéric Schmidt at the University of Paris-Saclay in France and his colleagues have found that a liquid ocean could have existed with an above water temperature of just below freezing. In this scenario, the ocean is kept warm enough to remain liquid by water circulation that could give it a temperature of around 4.5°C. “

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 believe that water played a  mayor role in the red planet. 

One of the most interesting aspects of Perseverance’s work is choosing a selection of rocks that might contain traces of ancient life and preparing them for a return journey to Earth”  “

And it is” choosing a selection of rocks that might contain traces of ancient life and preparing them for a return journey to Earth."

God created Earth to teem with various kinds of life, but as far as we know, there’s none on Mars.

Source:

Wilkins, Alex. 2022. Ancient Mars may have had a liquid ocean despite freezing temperatures New Scientist.  17 January. 

Strange shapes on Lake Michigan

 

Image courtesy of Terri Abbott.

Joel Kontinen

The sandy statues made on the shore by Lake Michigan at like it was a different planet. Two nature photographers saw what happened and posted their images for us all.

Terri Abbott, a nature photographer who lives in northern Indianawas visiting Tiscornia Park in St. Joseph, Michigan on Janary 8, when she noticed the stunning shapes on the snowy beach.

Intelligent design was not shown in the sculptures. Their shape “depends on several factors, including sand-to-water content and wind conditions, said Daniel Bonn, a physicist and head of the van der Waals-Zeeman Institute at the University of Amsterdam.”

Source:

Geggel, Laura. 2022. Weird sand 'chess pieces' dot Lake Michigan shore. Here's how they formed. Live Science, 9 January. 

According to evolution, these birds have been singing the same song for a million years

 

Image courtesy of Nigel Voaden,  CC BY-SA 2.0,

 

Joel Kontinen

 

Evolutionists have stretched the history of wild live to centuries. For example, one millionyears ago, "the soundtrack of the "sky island" mountains of East Africa may have been very similar to what it is today. That's because a group of tiny, colourful birds has been singing the exact same tunes for more than 500,000 years — and maybe as long as 1 million years, according to a new study.

Sunbirds in the family Nectariniidae are colourful, tiny, nectar-feeding birds that resemble hummingbirds and are common throughout Africa and Asia. They are the ‘little jewels that appear before you’, senior author Rauri Bowie, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a curator in the school's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, said in a statement. "

Bowie and his team recorded the songs of these birds, they found out that the isolated populations still sing the same songs

While evolutionists suppose that mountain birds in the Northern Hemisphere change, the mountains of East Africa have seen very little geological change and thus did not have to change,

Source:

Saplakoglu , Yasemin. 2022. These birds have been singing the same songs for literally a million years Live Science. 14 January.

Astronomers say they have found an exomoon orbiting a super Jupiter

 

Image courtesy of Helena Valenzuela Widerström. 

Joel Kontinen

Astronomers say they have spotted signs of what may be an enormous exomoon orbiting a planet more than 5000 light years away. If it is real, it could be the first exomoon we have found, but the detection isn’t conclusive.

This exomoon may be orbiting a planet called Kepler-1708b. 

 David Kipping and his colleagues found an exomoon orbiting a planet known as a super-Jupiter.  

 Some astronomers, like Rene Heller, are not so sure the finding is an exomoon. There are many things in the universe that baffle a human mind.

 Source:

Crane, Leah. 2022. Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet. New Scientist 13 January

Uranus and Neptune may have a constant rain of diamonds

 

Image courtesy of Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Joel Kontinen

Uranus, and Neptune may have a constant rain of diamonds. Uranus and Neptune are made mostly of water, ammonia and methane, so that the rain is not water.

But that does not endure liFe.

“The carbon then finds its brethren, forming long chains. The long chains then squeeze together to form crystalline patterns like diamonds.”

On the planets, the diamonds could presumably grow to be a lot larger than nano-sized.

“The dense diamond formations then drop through the layers of the mantle until it gets too hot, where they vaporize and float back up and repeat the cycle — hence the term ‘diamond rain’ ”

Source:

Sutter, Paul, 2022,  'Diamond rain' on Uranus and Neptune seems likely. Live Science, 11 January,

Horseshoe crab fossilized brain lasts millions of years

Image courtesy of Russell Bicknell. 

Joel Kontinen

The horseshoe crab that was found at Mazon Creek in Illinois. The brain fossil is believed to be around 310 million years old, making it one of the oldest of its kind ever discovered.

Russell Bicknell, the leading author of this find, said that the chances of finding a fossilized rain are "one in a million."

Yes, according to the evolutionary timescale. But in the creationists, it is just normal. The animal probably died during the Flood of Noah’s days.  

Source:

Baker Harry. 2021.  10 coolest non-dinosaur fossils unearthed in 2021, ancient arachnid brain. Live Science 29 December. 

An Evolution Research Origin Story is Failing

 

Image courtesy of ladyofhats, public domain,

Joel Kontinen

 Evolution has hit a hurdle. It was supposed that a "whiff of oxygen" before the Earth's Great Oxygenation Event 2.3 billion years ago probably began approximately 2.5million years ago, according to a study published in Science Advances authored by Sarah Slotznick and colleagues.

 The new study has the potential to rewrite what is known of the planet's past.it claims that the oxygenation started much earlier,

The researchers examined samples from an area in western Australia where others found what they interpreted as evidence of transient appearances of oxygen as early as 2.5 billion years ago.

Conventional science has its hurdles. One of them is the believe in millions of years that we cannot fathom, 

Only creation based science has the answers.

Source:

Dartmouth College. 2022, New research questions 'whiff of oxygen' in Earth’s early history: Analysis of the rock record rules out atmospheric oxygen before the Great Oxygenation Event. Science Daily, 5 January.

Epiphany: When Stargazers Met the Creator of All Stars

 

Joel Kontinen

When Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, he was not only greeted by shepherds, who were members of the lower class, but also by the magi, stargazers who had the wherewithal to leave everything and embark on an investigative journey to see what was going on.

Traditionally, Epiphany is celebrated on 6th January to remind us of this historical event. Men who studied the stars met the One who “made the stars also”.

The apostle Paul describes Jesus as follows in Colossians 1:15-17 (NIV):

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

Christmas fulfilled the prophecies uttered by Old Testament prophets such as Isaiah and Micah.

Christ, the Lamb of God, chose to live among human beings to lead us to salvation.

Neanderthals were human just like us

 

Image courtesy of Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock,

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, we the species that survived. A hundred years ago, they were depicted as mere cave men. But things have changed since then. More and more research shows that the Neanderthals were as human as us.

 ”Neanderthals might never even have gone extinct, instead genetically embedding themselves in the human genome as a result of interbreeding.”

They also showed the things that make us human, such as, symbolic art, tool and weapon making, the use of fire, and burial ceremonies.  

According to evolution, The brains of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens  “were similar in size and similar in blood supply from the internal carotid arteries to the cerebrum, the cognitive part of the brain … so effectively there is no evidence that the cognitive ability of the two species was any different,” Roger Seymour says.

We already know that Neanderthals were fully human and they lived mostly in Europe in the same way we do. We belief that they lived in Europe atter the flood of Noah’s day.

Source:

Novak. Sara, 2021 Debunking the Myth of Homo Sapiens Superiority, Discover  21 December,