Space has its mysteries

 

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Towering waves. 

Joel Kontinen  

“Towering waves more three times the size of the sun are crashing on an enormous, distant star.

The star in question is paired with another in a highly elliptical orbit. As the stars swing close together, their gravities pull on each other to produce tidal waves, much like how the moon creates tides on Earth. This stretches the stars, causing them to bulge out at the equator, which makes them seem brighter for a while,"

Space is wonderful, But we do not know anything that God has created, We would not expect to see little green men on this star or its planet. 

Source;

Ly,Chen .  2023, Giant star rocked by waves three times larger than our sun, New Scientist  14 August. 

The once extict fish can live for a hundred years

 Image courtesy of Bruce Henderson. 

Joel Kontinen

The "four-legged fossil fish" known as the coelacanth has been found alive and well in the West Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar, according to a report from the nonprofit environmental conservation platform Mongabay News.

According to evolutionists, the fish lived some 420 million years ago, but then in 1938 the first living coelacanth was discovered. Now, they are being captured by fishermen catching sharks.

Now scientist have discovrerd that the fish can live for  hundred years.  

Source;  

Shersby,  Megan, 2023,. West Indian Ocean coelacanth: The once-'extinct' Lazarus fish that can live for 100 years, Live  Science 18 August,  

 

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Nature's secrets

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Joel Kontinen 

An Agrican bird called thegreater honeyguide can tell. honey badgers  (Mellivora capensis) where there is honey. Scienrists supposed that thois was just a myth but there seems to be something in this relationship, , 

Nature is full of surprises 

Source;: 

 Marshall,  Michael, 2023, Do honeyguides really help honey badgers find bees’ nests? New Scientist 18 August,  

A giraffe born without spots

Image cuortesy of Bright's Zoo, 

Joel Kontinen 

A giraffe born in the USA is rare, It is a  brown female  giraffe that was born on July 31, "the world's rarest" of the species and believe that she's the only solid-coloured reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) in the world, 

If it had born in the wild, it would probably die, as in the savannas in Africa ,  coloured patches camouflage the animals from predators,  

Source:  

 Nalewicki,  Jennifer, 2023, 'World's rarest' giraffe born without spots at Tennessee zoo. Live Science 23 August

A comet will approach Earth in a few weeks

 

Image courtesy  of NASA/Dan Bartlett. 

Joel Koninen

A newly discovered comet that is approaching Earth may have as its origin from outside the solar system.

That is what evolutionists  suppose, as they have a  source of comets just outside the solar system, in theo Oort cloud, which may also be the origen to this comet. 

A japanese amateor astonomer astronomer Hideo Nishimura found the Comet Nishimura. It will be as its closes to Earth on September 13,. 

 Source:

 Baker,  Harry, 2023, New 'potentially interstellar' comet will be visible to the naked eye next month before leaving our solar system forever Live Science  August 8. 

Pleistocen extinctions caused by climate change

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Joel Kontinen

Many large vertebrate species went extinct during the late Pleistocene.  

Scientist do not know what caused these extinctions remains. However, climate change and human impacts have been suggested, they suppose that the La Brea tar pits in California where many animal fossils have been found tell a story of  fire-related ecosystems—and large mammal extinction has been discovered.  

Source: 

Vignieri, Sacha. 2023. Science, 18 Augus. t 

Glory to God in space

 

Illustration courtesy of  Fabian Bodensteiner.

Joel Kontinen

Space is full of wonders. For instance magnetars are neutron stars with “extremely strong magnetic fields.”

Astonomers do not know the origin of those fields. one example ithe amplification of a magnetic field in the core of the parent star, the “amplification of a magnetic field in the core of the parent star, which produces the neutron star during a supernova explosion.”

So as i said, spaceis fullof wonders that speak of the glory of God, , 

Source: 

Smith, Keith T. 2023, Helium star that will become a magnetar, Science 18 August 

An ecosystem lies beneath hydthermal vents

Image couretsy of Rov Subastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute

Joel Kontinen

The volcanic bedrock that is underneath sea hydrothermal vents has an ecosystem of its own. This was found by Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor in a recent expedition.   

While scientist knew that microbial life existed in the see bed, this was the first time that they saw worms and snails in a surprising cool (24°C) just underneath the vents.  

It seems that God can create life on earth, where ever He wishes.

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 Wilcox, christie, 2023,An entire ecosystem lives beneath scorching hydrothermal vents Science 9 August 

Mars may once have had seasons

 

Image courtesy of NASA/USGS. 

Joel Kontinen

 Mars had seasons like the Earth, It had wet and dry seasons like the Earth This  was found out by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

Evolutionists speculate that  the “seasonal cycles may have helped form some of the more complex building blocks for life, such as RNA and basic proteins.”

They say that Mars quid water in lakes and rivers, but what is not clear that meteor impacts or volcanic eruptions could form the red planet.

But only God can give life, ,

When God created the universe, the heavens were filled with wet planets. Yes, that is what Genesis 1: 6-7 tells us. 

Source:

 Wilkins,  Alex 2023, Mars used to have wet and dry seasons similar to ones on Earth, New Scientist,  9 August

Climate change had an effect on human evolution

 

Image courtesy of Maayan Harel, public domain.

Joel Kontinen

Joel Kontinen 

Most of what evolutionists know about their ape men past is derived  from fossil evidence. ,

Researchers say that climate is a one of  the determinats of human evolution

,” Ruan et al. found patterns of interbreeding between the Neanderthals and Denisovans with climate and environmental change in Eurasia.

“Margari et al. have identified a previously unknown climate-driven depopulation of hominins in southern Europe during the early Pleistocene. “This is proof of the Genesis story of non.human evolution, 

Ssource: 

Vignieri,  Sacha, 2023.  Reconstructing the past, Science 11 August.  

The sea is full of wonders

 

Image courtesy of  Schmidt Ocean Institute. 

Joel Kontinen

Strange cretures  were found beneath hydrothermal vents in the Pacific. , 

"2he first-of-its-kind habitat is teeming with never-before-seen life-forms, including strange species of worms, snails and deep-dwelling octopuses,"

This proves that the world is an amazing site of created wonders, 

 Source; 

Turner.  Ben, 2023,  Hidden underworld filled with never-before-seen creatures discovered beneath the seafloor, Live Science 10 August, 

Artic foxes help other species

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Joel Kontinen

Some animals care for nature, one such instance are the artic foxes that are “ecosystem engineers”. They create an environment that other species will thrive in,  

“Against the harsh tundra, the dens of Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) stand out like islands of green. Called “gardens of the tundra”, they are covered in distinctive, lush vegetation, often attributed to nutrients in the soil concentrated there from the foxes excrement and prey.” 

Nature is not necessarily red in tooth and claw. Even in the post-Fall world, we can see glimpses of peace, co-operation and goodness that defy naïve Darwinian explanations.

 Source: 

Dinneen,  James, 2023, Arctic foxes help create habitats as ‘gardeners’ of the tundra. New Scientist 1 August

Bias in science

 

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Joel Kontinen 

When we look what happened a hundred years in the past,  

Scientists. were sure of many truths: .

“The greatest experts were certain that the universe had always existed and was always the size it is now. Most biologists were sure that proteins, not DNA, were responsible for heredity. “

Yes, one of the truths of science is the failure of medicine, the thought that Covid- 19 can be gabbed away by an injection,  

Source: 

 Levitt , Dan. 2023, How even the greatest scientists can fall for cognitive bias,, New Scientist 2 August

An asteroid just missed Earth

 

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Joel Komtinen ,

“A skyscraper-size asteroid was revealed in year-old telescope data.” 

This was due to a new algorithm that could detect the way  near-Earth objects are discovered.

The 180 meters or 600 feet wide asteroid , which now it named  2022 SF289 , flew cöose enough to Earth to crete havoc , 

It is three times the size of the one that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 will zip by Earth at half the distance of the moon on Saturday  or March 25.  and some scientist say that a space rock destroyed the city of Sodam,  

Source:  

 Specktor, Brandon, 2023, 'Potentially hazardous' 600-foot asteroid detected near Earth after a year of hiding in plain sigth. l ive Science.  3 August.