Does your houseplant have feelings?

 

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Joel Kontinen

As wild as it sounds, plant thinking isn’t a new idea. "The field of “plant neurobiology” began in 2006, aimed at understanding how plants process information from their environment." 

According to New  Scientist, "it isn’t a new idea.as it sounds, The field of “plant neurobiology” began in 2006, aimed at understanding how plants process information from their environment."

Some plants can count and others use traits that  are intelligently designed, 

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Does your houseplant have feelings? New Scientist 24 August. 

A dog can beat a robot dog

 

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Joel Kontinen

A  dog that is intelligently designed can walk on unfamiliar and hard-to-master terrain, such as grass. Now, scientist have done the same with robotic  dogs, 

Now, Sergey Levine at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues have demonstrated that a robot using a kind of machine learning called deep reinforcement learning can work out how to walk in about 20 minutes in several different environments, such as a grass lawn, a layer of bark, a memory foam mattress and a hiking trail.

Intelligent design in nature is so evident that it is becoming increasingly difficult to deny it. In recent years, researchers have copied many amazing designs they have seen in the animal kingdom.

This isn’t something that Darwin’s blind watchmaker, natural selection, works, in that the dogs stride may be useful in microrobots. .

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Wilkins, Alex. 2022.  Robot dog learns to walk on tough terrain in just 20 minutes New Scientist 26 August

Plants may be concious

 

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Joel Kontinen 

Trees have made headlines in recent years. This should not come as a surprise to anyone, as they are full of self-assembling solar panels.

Some time ago we heard that trees sleep at night.

Then we got to know that trees communicate with other trees, 

it seems that the trees senses pertains to all plants so that they also can have senses. For instance, if one ,”touches a Mimosa pudica plant, also called the touch-me-not, folds its leaves when they are touched. Fewer know that if you put one into a sealed chamber with a dose of anaesthetic, it will eventually stop doing this, as though it has been knocked out or put to sleep.

Paco Calvo at the University of Murcia in Spain has put plans to seep several times in front of audiences. It never fails to surprise onlookers, prompting them to ask the very questions he himself is trying to answer. If plants can be “put to sleep”, does this mean they exist in a state of awareness that is shut off by anaesthetics? Might we consider this state to be a kind of sentience, a subjective internal experience? If so, do plants have some form of consciousness? These are controversial ideas, but Calvo and a small group of plant behaviour researchers take them seriously. Their findings so far, though tentative, could disrupt our understanding of consciousness – not to mention our attitudes towards plants,"

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 Lawrence, Natali, 2022. 2022. The radical new experiments that hint at plant consciousness. New Scientist 24 August

Species all around us. -

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Joel  Kontinen 

According to evolution species live for a short time and  and them die out,  but finding new species turns out to be great,

A New Scientist article speaks about bats. that are the” most charismatic species out there,” says Bryan Carstens  an evolutionary biologist at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Here is an animal that evolved from the same ancestor as we did and yet most species now fly around, hunting down insects in the dark by shouting at them and listening for echoes. They live for decades, longer than other mammals their size, and they are extremely social."

Carstens and his colleagues have discovered 600 new bat species. , 

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Douglas, Kate. 2022. Why masses of new species have been staring us in the face all along New Scientist 17 August. 

 

Mars was not formed in the way evolutionists think

 

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Joel Kontinen 

According to evolutionists , the Solar System formed from a nebula of gas and dust, from which the Sun and planets accreted. Their assembly sequence can potentially be reconstructed using the abundances of chemical elements and their isotope ratios. Péron and Mukhopadhyay have measured krypton and xenon isotopes in the Martian meteorite Chassigny, already known to reflect the planet’s interior composition. 

They found isotope ratios similar to meteorites, indicating that much of Mars’ mass was sourced from solids. However Mars’ atmosphere has isotopes indicating an origin from the nebular gas and thus must have been added later than the interior. Standard cosmochemical models predict the opposite sequence, so the results challenge current understanding of Solar System assembly.

 It seems  that a naturalistic origin of the solar system is wrought with difficulties. 

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Smith, Keith T. 2022, Mars accreted in an unexpected order Science 14 August 

Hidden life beneath Europa's surface

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Joel Kontinen

For evolutionists, life could be anywhere. So jupiter’moon Europa could be a place where life could be found, just as the Antartica of our planet.

”Beneath the frozen shell of Europa, flakes of ice may float upwards like strange underwater snow. The sparkling landscape formed by this process on the underside of the shell could be a favourable environment for alien life.

On Earth, the ice shelves in Antarctica are the closest analogue to the ice shells of Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus, which are both thought to host global oceans beneath their frozen surfaces.” 

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Crane, Leah. 2022. Shards of pure ice might snow upwards beneath the ice shell of Europa New Scietist 19 August,

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Evolutionists claim that the Earth could have many moons

 

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Joel Kontinen

Evolutioist  claim that the Earth could have many moons. Here is what New Scientist says about this;   

 “Earth could theoretically host two more moons the same size as the current moon. If the extra moons were smaller, our planet could host even more.

The larger planets in our solar system have far more moons than the smaller, rocky worlds – Jupiter has at least 79 moons, whereas Mars has two, Venus has none, and Earth only has the one. Intrigued by this fact-“

However, God created the moon just the size it is. The moon is actually always a supermoon. It tells us about creation and the uniqueness of the Earth.

Without the moon, marine life would die, and soon the rest of our planet’s life would also die, because here under the sun, few things are completely detached from the rest.

The Moon’s size and distance from Earth determine how big tides we have. Without tides marine life would sooner or later come to an end, and our planet could turn into Mars’ twin.

In other words, the Moon looks designed to maintain life on Earth.

The origin of the Moon is a naturalistic dilemma.

 

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Crane, Leah, 2022, Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have New Scientist.  12 August 

A hummingbird turns out to be a Lazarus animal

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, species are going extint. But now and them are new species is found that looks like the old ones.

 They are  called Lazarus animals. 

The newest one concerns a hummingbird that  they found in 1946 but was thought to be extinct Recently, the rearchers spotted a sabrewing in the Colombian mountains. 

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Taylor, Luke/ 2022. Hummingbird that was feared extinct is spotted in Colombian mountains New Scientist  65 August

Robots could use intelligently designed wings

 

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Joel Kontinen

 Biomimicry or biomimetics has recently become a success, that is, copying amazing design seen in nature, has become a flourishing research field.

Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did, He did very well.

Now, scientist have said that small robots could get more lift when they hover by moving their wings in a “treading water” motion instead of flapping them like hovering insects do.

In an experiment with a robotic wing, Swathi Krishna at the University of Southampton in the UK and Karen Mulleners at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, found that flying micro-robots could hover up to 50 per cent more efficiently if they used a wing. 

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 Padavic-Callaghan,  Karmela. 2022. Hovering robots could get more lift by 'treading water' in the air New Scientist 11 August

Tarsiers sing like opera stars

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Joel Kontinen

Tiny, monkeylike creatures called tarsiers sing duets together in the style of opera singers

Scientists recorded tarsiers' duets on an Indonesian island. They have been called Jedi master Yoda from "Star Wars" films.

To learn more about the tarsiers, scientists eavesdropped on them “ in Tangkoko National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia in July and August 2018, and captured 50 recordings of 14 pairs of Gursky’s spectral tarsiers (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae) singing their morning duets. Researchers from Sam Ratulangi University in Sulawesi and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, used machine learning to distinguish and classify notes and musical phrases in the tarsiers' songs. Their findings, published Aug. 2 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution(opens in new tab), suggest that these performances are so taxing that not all tarsiers can hit the fast and high notes and duet proficiently.” 

A study published in the journal Science on tarsier fossils found in China proposes that Asian tarsiers must have crossed the waters separating Asia and Africa, as evolutionists believe that "40 million years ago" Africa was an island continent.

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Carter, Jamie. 2022,  'Yoda' primates sing duets like opera stars Live Science 8 August 

 

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Millions of years in Science

 

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 Joel Kontinen

 Evolutionists believe that between roughly 1.25 million and 800,000 years ago, the climate system went through a major change during a period called the Middle Pleistocene Transition.

 Evolutionists ask was the inventory of dissolved oxygen in the ocean affected by this episode? They believe that Earth was covered by ice at that time. Thomas et al. show that oxygen concentrations in glacial deep North Atlantic waters suffered a stepped reduction about 900,000 years ago, coincident with reductions in the concentration of glacial atmospheric carbon dioxide and global ice volume.

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H. Jesse Smith Deep concentration Science 5-8. 

The human brain has merely evolved for 160, 000 years

 

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Joel Kontinen

A study has found that the physical transformation of the human cranium over the past 160,000 years was probably driven by alterations in the face resulting from diet and lifestyle changes, not from the evolution of the brain itself as previously thought,

Christoph Zollikofer at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and his colleagues digitally restored the skulls of 50 hominins recovered in Ethiopia and Israel, including H. sapiens as well as Homo erectus and Neanderthalspecimens for comparison.

So evolutionist believe that humans are far smaller, with subtler indentation, than those of their so-called ancestors. 

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 Taylor, Luke. 2022, Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 year.s New Scientist 1 August