Astronomers say they have found an exomoon orbiting a super Jupiter

 

Image courtesy of Helena Valenzuela Widerström. 

Joel Kontinen

Astronomers say they have spotted signs of what may be an enormous exomoon orbiting a planet more than 5000 light years away. If it is real, it could be the first exomoon we have found, but the detection isn’t conclusive.

This exomoon may be orbiting a planet called Kepler-1708b. 

 David Kipping and his colleagues found an exomoon orbiting a planet known as a super-Jupiter.  

 Some astronomers, like Rene Heller, are not so sure the finding is an exomoon. There are many things in the universe that baffle a human mind.

 Source:

Crane, Leah. 2022. Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet. New Scientist 13 January

Uranus and Neptune may have a constant rain of diamonds

 

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Joel Kontinen

Uranus, and Neptune may have a constant rain of diamonds. Uranus and Neptune are made mostly of water, ammonia and methane, so that the rain is not water.

But that does not endure liFe.

“The carbon then finds its brethren, forming long chains. The long chains then squeeze together to form crystalline patterns like diamonds.”

On the planets, the diamonds could presumably grow to be a lot larger than nano-sized.

“The dense diamond formations then drop through the layers of the mantle until it gets too hot, where they vaporize and float back up and repeat the cycle — hence the term ‘diamond rain’ ”

Source:

Sutter, Paul, 2022,  'Diamond rain' on Uranus and Neptune seems likely. Live Science, 11 January,

Horseshoe crab fossilized brain lasts millions of years

Image courtesy of Russell Bicknell. 

Joel Kontinen

The horseshoe crab that was found at Mazon Creek in Illinois. The brain fossil is believed to be around 310 million years old, making it one of the oldest of its kind ever discovered.

Russell Bicknell, the leading author of this find, said that the chances of finding a fossilized rain are "one in a million."

Yes, according to the evolutionary timescale. But in the creationists, it is just normal. The animal probably died during the Flood of Noah’s days.  

Source:

Baker Harry. 2021.  10 coolest non-dinosaur fossils unearthed in 2021, ancient arachnid brain. Live Science 29 December. 

An Evolution Research Origin Story is Failing

 

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Joel Kontinen

 Evolution has hit a hurdle. It was supposed that a "whiff of oxygen" before the Earth's Great Oxygenation Event 2.3 billion years ago probably began approximately 2.5million years ago, according to a study published in Science Advances authored by Sarah Slotznick and colleagues.

 The new study has the potential to rewrite what is known of the planet's past.it claims that the oxygenation started much earlier,

The researchers examined samples from an area in western Australia where others found what they interpreted as evidence of transient appearances of oxygen as early as 2.5 billion years ago.

Conventional science has its hurdles. One of them is the believe in millions of years that we cannot fathom, 

Only creation based science has the answers.

Source:

Dartmouth College. 2022, New research questions 'whiff of oxygen' in Earth’s early history: Analysis of the rock record rules out atmospheric oxygen before the Great Oxygenation Event. Science Daily, 5 January.

Epiphany: When Stargazers Met the Creator of All Stars

 

Joel Kontinen

When Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, he was not only greeted by shepherds, who were members of the lower class, but also by the magi, stargazers who had the wherewithal to leave everything and embark on an investigative journey to see what was going on.

Traditionally, Epiphany is celebrated on 6th January to remind us of this historical event. Men who studied the stars met the One who “made the stars also”.

The apostle Paul describes Jesus as follows in Colossians 1:15-17 (NIV):

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

Christmas fulfilled the prophecies uttered by Old Testament prophets such as Isaiah and Micah.

Christ, the Lamb of God, chose to live among human beings to lead us to salvation.

Neanderthals were human just like us

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, we the species that survived. A hundred years ago, they were depicted as mere cave men. But things have changed since then. More and more research shows that the Neanderthals were as human as us.

 ”Neanderthals might never even have gone extinct, instead genetically embedding themselves in the human genome as a result of interbreeding.”

They also showed the things that make us human, such as, symbolic art, tool and weapon making, the use of fire, and burial ceremonies.  

According to evolution, The brains of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens  “were similar in size and similar in blood supply from the internal carotid arteries to the cerebrum, the cognitive part of the brain … so effectively there is no evidence that the cognitive ability of the two species was any different,” Roger Seymour says.

We already know that Neanderthals were fully human and they lived mostly in Europe in the same way we do. We belief that they lived in Europe atter the flood of Noah’s day.

Source:

Novak. Sara, 2021 Debunking the Myth of Homo Sapiens Superiority, Discover  21 December,  

Researchers have found dinosaur footprints in Wales

 

Images courtesy of Peter Falkingham/Natural History Museum.  

Joel Kontinen

Researchers have found dinosaur footprints in Wales that according to evolutionists date more than 200 million years,

Dinosaur footprints found on a beach in south Wales are actually a "trackway" of footprints , 

The imprints in Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan, were reported to researchers in 2020, sparking a wide-ranging study into their origins.

It is believed the footprints are from an early ancestor of the giant diplodocus, and date back to the Triassic period.

The footprints have been scanned using state-of-the-art 3D imaging technology but will be left in place until they are eroded by the sea.

The study into the footprints was conducted by a group of palaeontologist from Cardiff University, National Museum Wales, Natural History Museum, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Lyon.

Source:

Dinosaur footprints in Penarth date back 200 million years BBC News. 30 December.