tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55822533671350772152024-03-19T01:48:15.232-07:00Joel kontinenThis blog discusses the historical reliability of the Bible, the creation/evolution debate and apologetics in general.bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comBlogger2869125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-91964355114543760282024-03-19T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-19T00:01:54.658-07:00Perfectly 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 bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-78980228400002347412024-03-16T06:05:00.000-07:002024-03-16T06:07:37.081-07:00 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
bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-6977679877981927472024-03-14T23:35:00.000-07:002024-03-14T23:51:23.424-07:00Europa’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 bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-88592772990780640722024-03-12T23:50:00.000-07:002024-03-12T23:50:47.319-07:00When 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 bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-69015560485758773072024-03-11T23:41:00.000-07:002024-03-11T23:54:53.916-07:00When 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).
Thebwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-47001141126603568522024-03-09T07:20:00.000-08:002024-03-09T07:35:09.889-08:00Eerie 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
bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-17672280820166024032024-03-07T23:25:00.000-08:002024-03-07T23:29:19.798-08:00Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thoughtImage 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 bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-66537286986649058582024-03-05T23:42:00.000-08:002024-03-05T23:44:54.334-08:00How old, according to evolutionists, is the first discovered fossil forest? Image courtesy of Christopher Berry. Joel KontinenWhen, according to evolutionists, was the first fossil
forest discovered? A survey in southwest England said that a forest that was
390 million years was found.
“The 390
million-year-old fossils supplant the Gilboa fossil forest in New York
state, which dates back 386 million years”.
“This now-extinct
type of plants, bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-67486712653577332442024-03-03T23:58:00.000-08:002024-03-04T00:07:38.666-08:00When does the Bible talk about the West Bank? Image courtesy of Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0Joel Kontinen
When does the Bible talk about the west bank of the river Jordan? It does not speak about
it all, Jesus went to Judea and Samaria when he preached. He was born in Bethlehem now
is occupied by Arabs.
While Joe Biden and David Cameron talk about the
blessings of a two state solution, most Israelis are opposed to it.
“bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-53654729593150312952024-03-01T23:49:00.000-08:002024-03-01T23:51:57.493-08:00Why humans don't have tails? Image courtesy of
SciePro via Shutterstock.Joel Kontinen
Researchers
identify a unique DNA mutation that's at least partly responsible for the loss
of our ancestors' tails.
Why do we not have
tails? This is the questions that evolutionists tend to ask.
In their view, “approximately
25 million years ago, an ancestor of both humans and apes genetically diverged
from monkeys and lostbwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-33552414986981448192024-02-28T23:49:00.000-08:002024-02-29T00:01:34.353-08:00Living fossils are threatend by a water mold Wollemi pines (Wollemia nobilis) were taught
to have have disappeared arounds 3 million years ago at the close of the Devonian period.But they were found in 1994.
Now, “They are
threatened by Phytophthora cinnamomi, a pathogenic water mold that causes
dieback, and by rampant wildfires that intermittently rage through this region
of New South Wales.”
“Following a pilotbwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-76389484483431529972024-02-26T23:52:00.000-08:002024-02-26T23:52:39.782-08:00Earth has extra moons, and they may hold the secrets of our solar system's past Image coutesy of NASA/JPL-CaltechJoel Kontinen
Earth's closest cosmic companions, known as
'minimoons' or 'quasi-moons', could hold the secrets to the history of our
early solar system.
Near-Earth
asteroids are similar to time capsules, holding secrets to the early history of
the solar system, experts say. Temporary companions called
'minimoons' may be the best place to unearth these bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-12879011560680444202024-02-24T00:09:00.000-08:002024-02-24T00:17:23.055-08:00Researchers find more than 100 new species near Chile Image
courtecy of: Schmidt Ocean InstituteJoel KontinenRecently researchers discovered more than 100 new
marine species, “as well as a handful of hefty new seamounts while exploring
the deep sea off the coast of Chile.”
Where did the expedition go?
“Between Jan. 8
and Feb. 11, researchers on board the Schmidt Ocean Institute's (SOI) research
vessel Falkor (too) exploredbwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-3736964013743751352024-02-20T23:39:00.000-08:002024-02-20T23:39:06.056-08:00Monster black hole powers the brightest known object in the universe Image courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser
Joel KontinenAstronomers have found a quasar 12 billion light years
away hosting a supermassive black hole that gobbles
up a sun-sized amount of mass every day
Space is wonderful,
full of things know as black holes.
Recently, “a quasar500 trillion times brighter than the sun has taken the title of the brightest
known object in the universe. It appearsbwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-58427135550253535842024-02-18T23:51:00.000-08:002024-02-18T23:51:58.698-08:00Dogs and horses buried with Iron Age people may have been beloved pets Image courtesy of Laffranchi
et al. (CC-BY
4.0)
Joel Kontinen
A 2200-year-old burial ground in northern Italy
includes people interred with dogs and horses, perhaps showing they had strong
bonds with their animals.
It seems that dogs and horses were common and used as pets
in the iron age.
“Archaeologists have often suspected that the ancient,
worldwide custom of including animals in bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-26218133325402089472024-02-16T23:36:00.000-08:002024-02-16T23:36:32.038-08:00Asteroid sampled by NASA may once have been part of an ocean world. Image courtesy of NASA/Erika
Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebers,
Joel Kontinen
Space is full of
wonders, Bennu is an exceptional asteroid. A sample from the asteroid Bennu, brought back
to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission, contains hints that it was once part of a
planetesimal. It may have once been part of a small, ocean-covered world with
conditions favourable for life to emerge.
bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-5666778792404310902024-02-14T23:44:00.000-08:002024-02-14T23:44:07.846-08:00Tunning 'Einstein engagement ring' from the early universe is one of the oldest ever discovered Image courtesy of ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Nayyeri,
L. Marchetti, J. Lowenthal.
Joel Kontinen
Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning
photo of one of the most distant Einstein rings ever found. The luminous halo
of light aligns perfectly with another galaxy, making it look like a cosmic
engagement ring.
The Einstein ring, named HerS J020941.1+001557, is
made of light from a bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-71509623431654279232024-02-11T23:38:00.000-08:002024-02-11T23:39:30.619-08:00Bizarre worm lizard not seen for 90 years found by landmine removers Image courtesy of Mark
Spicer
Joel Kontinen
A subspecies of
the Somali sharp-snouted worm lizard was found by a landmine clearance team,
the first official sighting since 1931.
“A subspecies of
the Somali sharp-snouted worm lizard (Ancylocranium somalicum parkeri) was
first reported by scientists in 1931 in the region that is now Somaliland”.
Last month, Mark
Spicer bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-38227717547167281802024-02-10T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-10T00:00:14.000-08:00 Climate and scienceJoel KontinenHow did we know
that carbon dioxide levels leading to climate change had happened
over two million years ago? This is based on models and not scientific research.
And then it came with
the research that says the following stage was it was around 580 million years ago, during the early Paleozoic era.
“This drop in
temperature occurred in concert with a decline in clay bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-3940198489601677502024-02-07T23:28:00.000-08:002024-02-07T23:28:16.191-08:00Ice on Mimas Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science IJoel Kontinen
Some of Saturn’s moon have ice before their surface. For example, “Mimas appears to have a vast
global ocean underneath its icy shell, according to close measurements of its
orbit. If other icy worlds have similar oceans”.
For certain
evolutionists, this would mean life hospitable to life on the moon.
“Mimas is the bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-18727128108800378152024-02-06T00:18:00.000-08:002024-02-06T00:31:49.161-08:00Israel Marks its 100th Embassy with the Opening of Indigenous People Embassy Image courtesy of Twitter
ScreenshotJoel KontinenWhat does
indigenous mean for Jews and the people around them? For Arabs it means that
the Jews only came to Israel in 1948, which is a lie, and they were held as colonialist
invaders.
However, indigenous people from around the world, including the Maori, have set up their embassy in
Jerusalem.
Wearing colorful
traditional bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-69350465074278698872024-02-03T00:03:00.000-08:002024-02-03T00:04:06.080-08:00Mammoth tusk tool may have been used to make ropes 37,000 years ago Image courtesy of Conard et al, Sci. Adv. 10, eadh5217 (2024)
Joel KontinenA 37,000-year-old piece of mammoth ivory with four
carved holes found in a cave in Germany was probably tool for making ropes, researchers have suggested’. Experiments with a replica suggest it.
Evolutionists believe that ice age animals are thousands of years old, they do not hold the
flood of bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-13424824505234140732024-01-31T23:56:00.000-08:002024-01-31T23:59:59.098-08:00"90,000-year-old" human footprints found on a Moroccan beach Image courtesy of M. Sedrati, et al.
Joel
Kontinen
Researchers in Morocco happened upon a trackway
containing 85 well-preserved human footprints that are some of the oldest in
the world.
Res30earchers
discovered footprints made by humans thousands of years ago at a beach in
Morocco.
According to evolutionists,
mankind is thousands of years sold. now, “Two trails of ancient human
bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-44674475893041867852024-01-29T23:20:00.000-08:002024-01-29T23:20:22.080-08:00Comet Arrokoth is a object made of of two parts with pancake-like shapes Image courtesy of NASA
Joel Kontinen
The universe is
made up of odd objects like the Pancake-like comet in the Kuiper Belt.
“Spinning clouds
of pebbles may lead to the formation of oddly flattened objects in the solar
system, including comets and asteroids.”
“In 2019, NASA’s
New Horizons spacecraft flew past an icy, comet-like object beyond Pluto
called Arrokoth. It was notable bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5582253367135077215.post-36924258308166416412024-01-26T23:58:00.000-08:002024-01-26T23:58:57.847-08:00An asteroid flies past Earth Image courtesy of:
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTechJoel Kontinen
A newly discovered asteroid the size of an airplane
will have 'very close encounter' with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it
happen.
A space rock that
is called asteroid 2024 BJ will come within 354 000 kilometres or 220,000
miles from earth, on the 27th, i.e. Saturday.
The asteroid is 37
meters bwanajoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13795914964696929602noreply@blogger.com