An ancient star discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud has revealed the chemical fingerprint of the early universe.

 

 

 Joel Kontinen

“Scientists have identified one of the oldest known stars outside the Milky Way.” They say that it was revealing the  conditions from a time before the sun even existed, that is  if they discount the story told in Genesis,  in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

According To evolution, the “first stars born after the Big Bang lived and died billions of years ago, so there are none left to tell the story of the early universe. But traces of these stellar ancestors were preserved in the second generation of stars that formed and still survive today.”

“The earliest stars blazed to life billions of years ago, soon after the Big Bang. They were behemoths made from the only elements that existed in abundance at the time: about three-fourths hydrogen and one-fourth helium”. This is what evolution believing scientist say.

Source:

Jonathan Gilber, 2024 Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours | Live Science

Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered

Image courtesy of ESO.

 Joel Kontinen 

“The Milky Way galaxy’s heaviest known black hole has been discovered in a binary star system, Tel Aviv University announced on Tuesday.”

What is the nature of the black hole that was discovered by Israeli scientists ,It is called the galaxy’s heaviest known black hole, it is1,500 light-years away from Earth.  

The star, which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass..

“This is an exciting discovery of the heaviest black hole in a binary system known today in the galaxy,” said Tel Aviv University Professor Emeritus Tsevi Mazeh.

Source;

Pesach Benson, 2024.  Heaviest known black hole in Milky Way uncovered 16 April.

2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope

 

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

A "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth.

The asteroid, named 2013 NK4, is around 610 metres or 2,000 feet wide, making it about twice the size of the "god of chaos" asteroid Apophis.

It will make a trip of 3.2 million kilometres or 2 million miles from Earth.

Source:

Harry Baker, 2024, 2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope (msn.com) April 16.

50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live

 

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Joel Kontinen

A Giant, 47 million-year-old snake fossils pulled from mine in India may be the largest snake ever, potentially surpassing Titanoboa by around 15 feet. The newfound snake was much longer than any living snake, including this green anaconda. 

“Scientists in India have discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient snake that may be the largest known serpent to ever live.”

The supersized serpent may have measured 15 meters or 50 feet  long — surpassing the current record-holder Titanoboa by around 2 meters or 6.5 feet, .

“The newly identified species, named Vasuki Indicus, takes its genus name from the mythical king of serpents in Hinduism, which is often depicted wrapped around the neck of one of Hinduism's main deities, Shiva.”

Scientists believe that the fossil is 47 million years old and it is a fully grown adult.

“V. indicus belongs to a group of snakes known as Madtsoiidae, which first appeared in the late Cretaceous period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago), in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe.”

Source:

Jacklin Kwan, 2024, 50-foot 'king of the serpents' may have been the biggest snake to ever live  13 April

  

Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found

 

Image courtesy of  Sergey Krasovskiy, CC-BY 4.0.

Joel Kontinen

Scientists say that a newly discovered ichthyosaurthat lived 200 million years ago in the Triassic period was potentially the biggest to ever live.  

It was about 25 metres or 82 feet long.  It is called Ichthyotitan severnensis and it lived during the end of the Triassic period.

the date of the death of this reptile is false. It probably died in the Flood of Noah’s time, some 4 500 years ago.

Source:

Richard Pallardy, 2024,  Giant, 82-foot lizard fish discovered on UK beach could be largest marine reptile ever found | Live Science 18 April 

Australia says Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist act

 

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Joel Kontinen

What will pro-Hamas terrorist do to get their worldview heard? In Australia, “Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism.”

At least  four people, including Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, were wounded when “a man lunged at him with a knife during a service live-streamed on Monday.”

The assailant was said to say Allah Akbar.

Such church incidents were supposed to take place in Nigeria, but now it seems they have become the norm also in Australia.  

Source:

Renju Jose and Lewis Jackson. 2024. Sydney church stabbing: Boy, 16, arrested after Bishop attacked (bbc.com) 16  April.

The Multiverse doesn't exist

 

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Joel Kontinen

A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality

The many-more-worlds interpretation enlarges the multiverse

What do we know about multiverses. Are They Real? Some say that the “Multiverse could be Infinitely bigger than we ever imagine”, This Is According to a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that describes realms upon realms of parallel universes created with every decision we make.

Those  who say that multiverses are real refer to  ‘The heart of quantum mechanics is the wave function, An Infamously abstract and fuzzy mathematical tool that is extremely good at describing the behaviour of photons, electrons and other denizens of the quantum realm. “

But What Exactly Is the wave function? After almost a century of arguments, physicists still disagree on How they come about.

So it seems that multiverses are not real. They are a figment of some progressive  thinking that is not based on fact.

Source; 

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, 2024, The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined | New Scientist 9 April

Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies 30 times closer to Earth than the moon

 

Orbital trajectories of Earth and asteroid 2024 GJ2. 

Image courtesy of NASA.  

Joel Kontinen

An asteroid that was discovered on Tuesday (April 9) made an extremely close, but harmless, pass by planet Earth on April 11. It was one of the space rocks that NASA did not know about.

“Asteroid 2024 GJ2 is roughly the size of a car,. Astronomers have calculated that the space rock would graze by Earth at a mere 19.3-thousand-kilometer or 12-thousand-mile) distance — that's just three percent the distance between the Earth and the moon. 2024 GJ2 measures between 2.5 and 5 meters or 8.2 and 16 fee), according to the European Space Agency (ESA).”

 

Source:

Josh Dinneer,  2024. Car-size asteroid discovered 2 days ago flies by Earth at 1/30th the distance of the moon | Live Science 11April.

Left-handed monkeys refutes Darwinian story of the evolution of right-handednes

 

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Joel Kontinen

”Primates living on the ground with a tendency for right-handedness, but findings from urban langurs in India cast doubt on the idea.”

“Monkeys that adopted an urban lifestyle in India are mostly left-handed – in contrast to humans and other primates that live on the ground.

The findings clash with long-standing claims that primates that come down from the trees generally evolve a tendency to be right-handed, raising questions about what really drives this trait.”

This is based on evolution, as many people think that animals are our ancestors. But this study refutes it.

Source:  

Christa Lesté-Lasserre. 2024. Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of right-handedness | New Scientist 5 April.

Explosive green 'Mother of Dragons' comet now visible in the Northern Hemisphere

 

Image courtesy of: European Space Agency.

A green comet is on its way to Earth, it is called re Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. A rare, formerly-horned comet that astronomers have dubbed the "Mother of Dragons" is now visible after dusk in the Northern Hemisphere.

It is a city wide comet, it has a nucleus measuring 17 kilometres or 10,5 miles across and orbits the sun in an elliptical shape. Recent observations of the comet have revealed a hidden spiral of light surrounding its frigid heart.

This "Halley-type" comet, officially known as, completes a single orbit around the sun once every 71 years. The last time it passed by Earth was in 1954, according to a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA).

Source: 

Jennifer Nalewicki, 2024, Explosive green 'Mother of Dragons' comet now visible in the Northern Hemisphere (msn.com) 3. April.

Climate change can disturb the accuracy of tree's biological clocks

 

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Joel Kontinen

Scientist used to believe that a tree’s age was determined by the annual rings of the tree.

However, this might not be true.  

“The higher temperatures brought on by global warming can disrupt trees’ ability to track time, with potential consequences for their capacity to sequester carbon or even survive.

Climate change is already disturbing the timings of events in ecosystems by shuffling migrations, breeding, and food cycles that have historically been intricately coordinated. But like humans and animals, plants have a genetic ability to track time that functions independently of their ecosystems.”

 

Source:

 Christie Taylor. 2024. Climate change can disturb the accuracy of trees’ biological clocks | New Scientist 3 April.

Jesus was a Palestinian?

 

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Joel Kontinen

”On Christmas eve last year, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, a member of the far-left “Squad,” sparked controversy when she wrote a post on Instagram comparing Palestinian Arabs to Jesus – and the State of Israel to King Herod.

“Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” Ocasio-Cortes wrote in her Instagram post.

As a response, “historian and Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University Paula Fredriksen penned an opinion piece published by The comparis on and suggesting the claim is akin to classic antisemitic canard.”

Jesus was  born In Betlehem, of Jewish parents, Every Bible reader or scholar of the Bible should know this.

As the professor Fredriksen said:

“For two millennia, Jews have been blamed for Jesus’ execution by the Romans; casting him as a Palestinian just stokes the fires of hate, using Jesus against Jews once again.”

“It is, further, an act of cultural and political appropriation — and a clever rhetorical move. It rips Jesus out of his Jewish context. And it rips 1st-century Jews — and 21st-century Israeli Jews — out of their ancestral homeland, turning them into interlopers. This is polemic masquerading as history.”

Source:

World Israel News Staff 2024. 'Don't pretend Jesus was a Palestinian' - Historian blasts AOC's 'Palestinian Jesus' tweet | World Israel News  31 March.

 

 

Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time

 

Image courstecy of Daiju Azuma ,  CC BY-SA 2.5, 

 Joel Kontinen

The giant water bugs have originally come from Cyprus.  “The bugs, also called "toe biters," belong to the Lethocerus genus, which includes bird-eating species that can grow to around centimetres or 4.7 inches long.”

They  can  bite unsuspecting humans between the toes and thus they are called  toe biters.  They cannot harm humans in other ways.  

The bugs  probably got their venom after the fall of man, as recorded in Genesis 3. 

Source:

Patrick Pester, 2024. Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time | Live Science 25 March 

Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints

 

Image courtesy of Leonardo Troiano/ National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Brazil.

Joel Kontinen

What do the ancient tribes of Brazil have to do with dinosaurs?

”Mysterious rock carvings found next to dinosaur tracks in Brazil suggest ancient people discovered the footprints thousands of years ago and recognised them as meaningful.

The Serrote do Letreiro site in Paraíba state features the footprints of theropod, sauropod and ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Epoch, between 145 million and 100 million years ago. Adjacent to these are numerous rock carvings, or, petroglyphs, predominantly circular with radial lines and other abstract motifs.”

But the dates supposed for the dinosaurs is in error. They can be that old.

Source:

Soumya Sagar, 2024. Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints | New Scientist 26 March.

 

How do dogs understand words and what they mean?

 

Image courtesy of Gorodenkoff /, Shutterstock​. 

Joel Kontinen

When evolutionists think that great apes have the skill to understand words and their objects, science has a different story to tell.  

Now dogs can learn the names of objects. ”dogs seem to understand that words represent specific objects, recordings of their brain activity suggest.”

Dogss seem to understand that words represent specific objects, recordings of their brain activity suggest.

Marianna Boros at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and her colleagues tested 18 dogs from a wide range of breeds, including Border collies, toy poodles and Labrador retrievers.

Source:

James Woodford. 2024, Dogs really do understandthat words stand for objects, 22 March

Crock Cousin Found In Texas

 

Image courtesy of  Márcio L. Castro

Joel Kontinen

Fossil discovered in 1989 found to be new species of aetosaur — a massive armored crocodile Cousin That Lived During The Late Triassic.

What kind of animals did the dinosaur era contain?

“Huge armored crocodile cousin with plates embedded in its skin and curved spikes along its flanks roamed our planet 215 million years ago,” evolution believing scientists reveal.

The timing of the found is spurious, It probably found its death in the flood of Noah’s day.

Source:

Patrick Pester. 2024, Triassic 'tank' unearthed in Texas was a croc cousin that lived 215 million years ago | Live Science  20 March

There is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe

 

Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria), B. Frye (University of Arizona), P. Kamieneski (Arizona State University), T. Carleton (Arizona State University), and R. Windhorst (University of Arizona.

Joel Kontinen 

“The universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists say that it is “not a measurement error.”

“Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look.”

This is known as the Hubble Tension, a study published on  “February 6 in “the Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests that there may be something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe.”

Yes, here is still much that we do not know of the universe, It is surrounded things we do not know about. But anyhow, the big bang view of the universe is wrong,

Source:  

Ben Turne. 2024 James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe | Live Science 14 March

 

Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan

 

 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Nantes/University of Arizona

Joel  Kontinen

Evolution with its millionsof years poses many problems for the universe. Some features are not as old  as the age of the solar system,

What is new about Saturn’s moon Titan? New research is claiming that ridges cover its poles.   

It is said that landforms called “yardangs can form on Earth – and they might also be on Saturn’s moon Titan.”

They might be yardings or some other features, There is still much we don’t know about Saturn and its moons.

 Source:

Leah Crane, 2024, Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan | New Scientist  15 March.

Life on Europa?

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

Will there be life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa? That is what NASA is waiting for.

The message will be sent by the Europa Clipper spacecraft. which will start in October 2024.

“If any life is found on Europa, it is likely to be microbial, so the commemorative plate is more of a symbolic gesture than a bona fide message to extraterrestrial life forms, per se. “

The message has the names of some 2,6 million individuals:  

“More than 2.6 million names have been stenciled into a "dime-size" silicon microchip by technicians at the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This microchip will be attached to a commemorative plate, which will feature a handwritten copy of the poem "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa" by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, among other design details.”

Source:

Emily Cooke, 2024, NASA unveils cryptic message from Earth to be sent to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa | Live Science 13 March

Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute.

Joel Kontinen

Is there life on Europa? A few weeks ago, it seemed that there was.  But now it seems that there is not.

“Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may not be as ripe for life as previously thought. Its underground ocean has long made it one of the most promising candidates in our solar system to host life, but theoretical studies of its seafloor are putting a damper on its promise.”

On Earth, much of the life in the oceans is supported by hydrothermal activity at the seafloor, where water interacts with rock. This activity is missing on Europa.“

Well, God made the Earth a space for humans and not other planets or their moons.

Source:

 Leah Crane, 2024. Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life | New Scientist 13 March.

When did humans start wearing clothes?

 

Homo heidelbergensis. Image courtesy of  Benoît Clarys/University of Tübingen.

 Joel Kontinen

The answer varies. According of some evolutionists, early humans were in the trees, just like apes and learnt to walk on two feet, but they did not have fur, so that clothing became important,

As early humans evolved from ape-like ancestors, they came down from the trees, began to walk upright and lost their fur. But without fur, our ancestors would have been exposed to the elements. They would have needed clothing for protection.

Some evolutionist propose that some 1,2 millions years ago we lost our fur,  but lice was a problem, so they started to wear  clothes,

According to the real history in Genesis, men and women started to wear clothes after the fall in Genesis 3.

Source:

Ashley Hamer. 2024, When did humans start wearing clothes? | Live Science 10 March.

When were the first stars born?

 

 Image courtesy of: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)/Ben Johnson (CfA)/Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge)/Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona)/Daniel Eisenstein (CfA)).

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, the first generation of stars to exist in the universe has “come to light, thanks to observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The proof is located in one of the most distant galaxies known.”

The galaxy, called GN-z11, “was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015 and, prior to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, it was considered the most faraway galaxy known. “With a redshift of 10.6, it makes more sense to talk about how long ago it existed, rather than how far away it is.”

According to Genesis 1, they were born as the rest of creation was formed.

Source:

Keith Cooper. 2024, The James Webb Space Telescope may have found some of the very 1st stars | Space  5 March.

Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption finally explained

 

Image courtesy of Shutterstock / Belikova Oksana.

 Joel Kontinen

Mysterious green sunsets were reported after the massive eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 – now simulations show how they were created and just how rare they are.

How did the ice age begin?

If we leave evolutionistic consideration aside, the real culprit might be the flood of Noah’s day, with eruptions covering the most of the Earth.

“Strange green sunsets reported after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa were probably caused by the large amount and size of sulphur aerosols the volcano injected into the stratosphere.

“How can physics or nature create green twilight colours?” says Christian von Savigny at the University of Greifswald in Germany, who became intrigued after reading descriptions of such sunsets in the months after Krakatoa’s eruption in Indonesia.”

 

Source:

 James Dinneen, 2024,  Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption finally explained | New Scientistp 4 March.

Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech

Joel Kontinen

It is a hard for evolutionists, for “Jupiter’s moon Europa may be less ripe for life than we thought. Although it has an ocean of water beneath its icy shell, the frigid moon may be short of the oxygen necessary to sustain life as we know it.”

They just taught that Europa was ripe pr life. Now they are disappointed.  

“Oxygen is produced on Europa when radiation hits its surface and splits the water ice there into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen. Models of that process have suggested the rate of oxygen production could be anywhere from 5 to over 1000 kilograms per second.

Jamey Szalay at Princeton University and his colleagues used data from the Juno spacecraft, which flew just 353 kilometres above Europa’s surface in 2022, to make a new estimate. They found oxygen is only being produced at a rate of about 12 kilograms per second on the surface – right at the low end of previous estimates.

“In some sense, the shell is like a lung for Europa. It’s continuously generating oxygen,” says Szalay. “That being said, we can’t speak to what happens after the oxygen is produced on the surface – it’s still a question how much of it could get into the ocean.”

Source:

Leah Crane 2024 Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought | New Scientist 4 March