Paris disgraces Christ

 

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Joel Kontinen

The pope did not comment on the disgrace of the Christ and his apostols, in the opening of the Paris Olympians but some Christians and others like Elon Musk did  not like it.

Some, like Jill  Biden liked the show. 

The former president is the latest conservative figures to lash out at the performance, with his son Donald Trump Jr reposting a picture of the performance and stating, “They’re not even pretending anymore.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson also posted on X that the sketch was a “mockery” and was “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world who watched the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games”.

Others, such as Elon Musk, called it “extremely disrespectful to Christians,” while Piers Morgan also posted that it was a “drag queen mockery” and was an “appalling decision”.

The sketch included drag performers from Dnot rag Race France, including the show’s host, Nicky Doll, who defended the production on her Instagram Stories.

Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini branded the scene insulting and “sleazy,” adding: “Opening the Olympics by insulting billions of Christians across the world was a really bad start.”

 It was my absolute honor to perform in front of billions of people around the world, and celebrate our Olympians,” Doll wrote on Sunday, them reported. “And remember, to the ones that had their feathers ruffled seeing queerness on their screen: WE AIN’T GOING NOWHERE.”

Paris Olympics officials have apologized to those who took offense at the performance.

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Amelia Neath 2024. ‘Open-minded’ Trump slams ‘disgraceful’ Olympics opening ceremony | The Independent 30 July.

Hezbollah kills Druze kids in strike

 

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Joel Kontinen

The  press is making a hit on Israel killing  children in Gaza, but  what is left unheard is the killings by Hezbollah in north Israel.

”Israel’s Druze community was reeling in shock after a Hezbollah rocket killed 11 youth and injured another 29 on a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdal Shams on Saturday.

Most of the casualties were between the ages of 10-20. As the casualties mounted, so did Druze anger.

“This is a terrible disaster that must not be ignored,” Israeli Druze politician Fateen Mulla told The Press Service of Israel.”

Here is what Honest Reporting told of the attack: ”the international media’s coverage of Hezbollah’s deadly rocket atttack on July 27 represents another low in reporting on Israel since the war began.

On Saturday afternoon, Hezbollah announced it had launched 100 rockets at an Israeli army base in the Golan Heights, near the Druze town of Majdal Shams.

But it landed in a soccer pitch, killing  at least  12 Druze children.

”The Druze trace their ancestry back to the Biblical figure Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses.

Israeli Druze serve in senior positions in public and military life, and the bond between Jewish and Druze soldiers is referred to as the “covenant of blood.”

The Druze speak Arabic but are not Muslim and are very secretive about their religious beliefs.

The Alma Institute told The Press Service of Israel that Hezbollah rocket barrages on northern Israel are expanding in range, reaching deeper into Israel to unevacuated communities.

Matan Davidian of “Fighting for the North,” which advocates for the nearly 80,000 Israelis forced to evacuate their homes in northern Israel told TPS-IL, “We heard the Prime Minister in Congress say that there is also ‘another way,’ and we say that the blood of our children is not worthless! We call for immediate military action and not to settle for a feeble response.”

Hezbollah leaders have said they will continue the attacks to prevent Israelis from returning to their homes. The attacks have killed 23 civilians and 18 soldiers.

Israeli officials have been calling for Hezbollah to be disarmed and removed from southern Lebanon in accord. Attack ‘crossed every possible red and black line.

 Israeli Druze fury at Hezbollah 28 July UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War.”

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Pesach Benson 2024. WATCH: Thousands attend funeral of 10 Druze children killed in Hezbollah rocket attack that claimed 14 lives | World Israel News 28 July

Ancient life of Mars?

 

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Joel Kontinen

Are there signs of life on Mars?

Mars was thought to be a planet that had never  had life, in spite of the canals that were supposed to have made by Martians.

Burt we know  there were no Martians.

Here is a new study:

“NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a rock riddled with what may be signs of ancient life. The rock, nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” after a famous waterfall in Arizon a, shows hints that it could have supported living microbes billions of years ago – but for now, there is no way to be sure if life really existed there.

The rock measures about 1 metre by 0.6 metres and is mostly reddish, with thin veins of white calcium sulphate that probably formed when water flowed through fissures in the rock, depositing minerals in the cracks. Water is one of the ingredients necessary for life, but it wasn’t the only one that researchers found while poring over the Perseverance data.

They saw that between the streaks of white, there were strange light-coloured splotches, each just millimetres across and ringed with dark material containing iron and phosphate. “These spots are a big surprise,” said David Flannery at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia in a NASA press release. “On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface.” That is because the type of chemical reaction that creates these  sorts of leopard spots on Earth rocks can also provide useful energy for microbes.”

But only God has the capacity to create life.  

Leah Crane.  2024.  Mars rover found a rock with possible signs of ancient life | New Scientist  25 July

Last Change Lake is the evolutionists source of life

 

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Joel Kontinen

What is the “Last Chance Lake? It is  a shallow, extremely salty pool of water with an unusual chemistry. The lake has phosphate concentrations 1,000 times higher than the ocean, making it a modern analog

Evolution believing scientist say that it has been around 4 billion years ago. ”Phosphate is an essential ingredient to make nucleotides — the building blocks of DNA and RNA — and other life-forming compounds, such as lipids. Although phosphate is bound up in every living being, the element by itself is scarce in nature.”

"Someone coined the phrase 'the phosphate problem' for the origin of life, which is that you need a lot of phosphate for these reactions," Sebastian Haas, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, told Live Science. "The second part of the problem is that phosphate is usually low in the environment, and the only real exception we know are these kinds of lakes."

 Last Chance Lake is one of several so-called "soda lakes" — lakes that have high levels of dissolved sodium and carbonate. That makes them similar to bowls of water containing large amounts of dissolved baking soda. This chemical makeup enables these lakes to have high concentrations of phosphate.”

So some evolution believing scientist say that it may have given life on Earth.

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Sascha Pare. 2024, Last Chance Lake: The unusual 'soda lake' with conditions that may have given rise to life on Earth | Live Science19 July.

Chimps can speak like humans?

 

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Joel Kontinen

Humans and chimpanzees both take part in rapid social exchanges, suggesting some foundational principles of language may have evolved earlier than previously thought.

What is the difference between humans and chimpanzees? According to those who believe in evolution, the difference is minimal.  They say that just like human, chimps   communicate with each other.

This stud negates the intelligence design that that helps humans talk.

”Chimpanzees trade gestures at a rapid pace when socialising, similar to the rate at which humans engage in a back-and-forth conversation.

Researchers made the discovery by analysing five wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) communities across East Africa, examining 8559 gestures made by 252 chimps – one of the largest studies of its kind. They recorded face-to-face interactions between the apes, noting the timing between one’s gesture and another’s response.”

Corryn Wetzelng 2024 Chimps respond to each other at a pace similar to human conversation | New Scientist 22 July.

Meteor flew past Statue of Liberty in New York city

 

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Joel Kontinen

Reports of a daylight fireball and loud boom across New York City and New Jersey suggest a meteor entered the atmosphere above the city and traveled west at 38,000 mph, NASA says.

A  meteor’s sound was  heard above the Statue of Liberty in New  York city 16th of July.  morning,

It flew along the city at Liberty statue building roughly 34,000 mph or 54,500 km/hour.

 A boom  was was heard the atmosphere. It was not a big as the one that fell in Russia or the one that destroyd Sodom.

 According to NASA its speed grew to a 61,200 km/h or 38,000 miles per hour.

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Sascha Pare. 2024 'Rare daylight fireball' meteor over NYC created loud boom near Statue of Liberty | Live Science 17 July

Short range comet will break up in the future

 

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Joel Kontinen

 How long does a comet fly in the sky?

“A new paper suggests that comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, may completely break apart before it reaches its closest approach to Earth in October. If the comet does survive long enough to reach us, it should be bright enough to spot with the naked eye.”

When would shor trange comets will break up in our live time? As it happened when a comet hit Jupiter.

“Astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China first spotted comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, on Jan. 9, 2023, and it was confirmed on Feb. 22 the same year, when NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) spotted it barreling toward the sun. The comet's trajectory hints that this could be its first-ever close approach to the sun and that it may eventually be ejected from the solar system.”

Scientist say that it would be closest pass to Earth on October. 13, but it may be destroyed by that time.  

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Harry Baker, 2024, Comet predicted to light up Earth's skies this fall may be falling apart (msn.com) 18 July

Pluto is a dwarf planet?

 

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Joel Kontinen

What should scientist do with Pluto, which was dropped as a planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)?

 A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club of planets.

Pluto is not as old as some scientists think.  

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 Jonathan O’Callaghan,  2024. A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club | New Scientist 16 July

We have some Neanderthals genome in us

 

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Joel Kontinen

What do we know about the Neanderthals?

Modern human DNA may have made up a surprisingly large amount of the Neanderthal genome, a new study finds.

Some researchers think about  their genome has not become extinct but it still lives among us. This is what a study just released says” our” genome has   2.5% to 3.7% of the Neanderthal genome.”

“This research really highlights that what we think as a separate Neanderthal lineage really was more interconnected with our ancestors,

Some think that that us and the Neanderthals "shared a long history of exchanging individuals." that exceed 500 000 years.

The timing of this is clearly wrong,

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Charles Q. Choi, 2024, Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests | Live Science 11 July

What is the oldest tree in Australia`?

 

Joel Kontinen

Some scientist are saying that it has to do with trees that are from the with for Gondwana era.   

“Researchers in Australia are building a "living seed bank" to protect the continent’s last-remaining fragments of rainforest from climate change.”

They also have the living fossil that has not be able to see for 66 million years, that died with the what evolutionists call The dinosaurs.

The trees the researchers are building can  grow to 50 metres in height

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Emma Bryce 2024, Rainforest of super trees descended from lost supercontinent Gondwana being created in Australia | Live Science 10 July.

Eye-ball planet is habitable?

 

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Joel Kontinen

NASA scientist say that an exoplanet might have an illiquid ocean and be habitable.

“The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found that a distant world. Scientists thought it was discovered several years ago could be an "eyeball" planet with iris-like ocean surrounded by a sea of solid ice — making it a candidate for a potentially habitable world. “

The exoplanet is called LHS-1140b and it is about 50 light years from us, It is 1.73 times our planet, Scientist say that it was a mini-Neptune. but now they say that it would potentially support live.

This exoplanet is situated in the "Goldilocks zone” which make it possible for live. But live can only came with intelligence that this planet does not have.

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Ben Turner, 2024. 'Eyeball' planet spied by James Webb telescope might be habitable (msn.com) 10 July

3D-printed egg shells can help bones regrow

 

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Joel Kontinen

Crushed chicken egg shells have been turned into a structure that supports bone growth in the laboratory.

Egg shells could be used to help grow human bone fragments to repair broken or chipped bones.

What could egg shells do to a human body? They contain fragments that can instruct the bones to grow.

“Bones grow inside the body on a kind of scaffold called the extracellular matrix, which helps guide and feed bone-growing cells. ArtificEgg shells could be used to help grow human bone fragments to repair broken or chipped bones.

Bones grow inside the body on a kind of scaffold called the extracellular matrix, which helps guide and feed bone-growing cells. 

Artificial scaffolds can be used to grow pieces of bone outside the body, which are then surgically implanted to repair broken bones, but these don’t always work well and can lead to complications.

This is what God has given to us. It is intelligent design that can make bones grow.

 Source:

Alex Wilkins. 2024. 3D-printed egg shells can help bones regrow | New Scientist 5 July 

Can animals perform surgical amputations?

 

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Can animals perform surgical amputations? The seems that they could not. But now a study shows that they could. Surprising tactic may be way to prevent entire colony from being infected by bacteria.

”In his 11 years studying ant behavior, biologist Erik Frank had never seen anything like it. He and his colleagues at the University of Würzburg brought Florida carpenter ants back to their lab in Germany to learn how they respond to injury. Most ant species treat thte injured or severed limb of a comrade by coating it with an antimicrobial goo. But the reddish-brown carpenter ants took a different tack: They bit the remainder of he limb off, effectively amputating it.”

God has rewarded the ants with intelligence design, which makes them  do things other animals could not.

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HUMBERTO BASILIO , 2024, Ants may be the only animal that performs surgical amputations Science 2 July 

When did humans start wearing shoes?

 

Ancient sandals woven out of sagebrush bark from Fort Rock Cave in Oregon, which are on display at the Oregon Historical Society Museum. 

Image courtesy of Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Oregon Historical Society

Joel Kontinen

“Scientists have discovered many ancient shoes around the world, including 5,500-year-old leather shoes in Armenia, 6,200-year-old grass sandals in Spain, and footwear as old as 8,300 years old in Missouri.”

So the question is: When did humans invent shoes?

“There may be evidence that humans invented shoes much, much earlier. Fossil tracks on a beach in South Africa may be shoe prints dating back up to 150,000 years, according to a 2023 study. ."

According to Genesis, mankind invented cities andmusic instruments very early, so why not shoes?

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Charles Q. Choi 2024. When did humans start wearing shoes? | Live Science 2.July