Some Evolutionists Believe That The Hobbit Was A Denisovan

 

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Joel Kontinen

The debate on the status of the Hobbits or Flores Men has been quite lively in the past few years. (You can read more here, here and here.) According to fresh research, the Hobbit was not a distinct human species but a true H. sapiens suffering from iodine deficiency.

Found on the Indonesian island of Flores, the diminutive Hobbits were named after the heroes of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth story.

New evolutionary research has shown that the hobbits (H. floresiensis)   are Denisovans, who were close relatives of the Neandertals. .

According to science daily, "To shed light on the prehistory of maritime Southeast Asia, the study researchers analyzed more than 400 modern human genomes from across the world, including more than 200 from the islands of Southeast Asia and New Guinea. Scientists hunted specifically for genetic sequences that were significantly different from those usually detected in modern humans, because such DNA may have come from extinct human lineages such as H. floresiensis or H. luzonensis."

We are starting to piece together a picture of the Denisovans, one of our closest cousins, and a group that still lives on in the DNA of many people today.

According to the model based on Genesis, the Neanderthals were Adam’s descendants just like us. They probably lived in Europe during the ice age following the Flood of Noah and it seems the Denisovans where their closest comrades.

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Choi ,Charles Q 2021. Identity of mysterious 'Hobbits' possibly found   Live Science  31 March.

Evolutionists Claim The Granddad Of All Cephalopods Found

 

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Joel Kontinen   

The oldest known cephalopod — part of the group that includes octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses — is more than half a billion years old, a new study suggests.

The fossils date to the Early  Cambrian period and are about 522 million years old, according to the researchers, who found the fossils on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada.

Evolutionists believe that the cephalopods were the ancestor of all creatures that live in the sea  and have tentacles,

The fosills are tiny. one of them measured just 1.4 centimeters or half an inch tall and 01 inches 0...3 cm or o.1 iches wide

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GeggeL, Laura . 2021. 500 million-year-old fossil is the granddaddy of all cephalopods Live Science 28 March.

Noah’s Flood explains why a Jurassic predator ate its meal and died as it did so

 

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Joel Kontinen

The vampire squid is a living fossil that have never changed much during the 180 million years according to evolutionists it has existed.  

However, the time of the death is the time of Noah’s Flood, approximately 4,500 years ago.

The shale slab holding this duo's fossilized remains preserved imprints of their soft tissues in "exceptional" detail, the researchers wrote in the study, published online March 16 in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. An analysis of the slab reveals that their last moments together ended in an "eternal embrace," the team said.

This means that they lived together at the flood time, .Many fossils have been found snatching their meal, which means that the flood took them away unexpectedly.

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Geggel, Laura. 2021. Vampire squid ancestor died in 'eternal embrace' with its dinner  Live Science 26 March.

The Nature Rights Movement Gives The “Rights Of The Moon””

 

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JJoel Kontinen

The “nature rights” movement has launched into outer space with a Declaration of the Rights of the Moon. They not only give credit to the Earth, that they say is our mother. 

In a world seeped with Darwinian thinking, it is difficult for some people to see that humans are special, made in the image of God.

Animal rights activists, who tend to embrace evolutionary thinking, have for years tried to blur the differences between humans and animals.

In January 2008 a chimpanzee named Matthew Hiasl Pan made headlines throughout the world as activists attempted to get the Austrian High Court to grant it the status of a person. The court refused to do so, however.

In June 2008 the environmental committee of the Spanish parliament approved a resolution that called for the right to life and freedom for great apes.

In early 2010, Thomas White, a professor of ethics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, caused a stir by suggesting that dolphins should be treated as ”non-human persons."

In 2014, Professor Peter Singer wanted to re-define chimpanzees as people.

In April 2014 animal rights activists claimed that two research chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, were being unlawfully detained.

Some activists are not content with giving human rights to animals. They also want to give them to rivers.

Now, the animal rights have set their signs on the moon. Here’s what they say -  that the Moon must be given special rights.

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 Smith Wesley J.. 2921. Now, It’s the “Rights of the Moon”  Evolution News 20 March. 

A daytime fireball in the UK

 

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 Joel Kontinen

A  meteor  was seen in England  this week. First, they people who saw this taught that the noisee was produced by fighter jets, but the Ministry of Defence quikcly announced that this couldn't have been the case, according to the BBC.

 

Thanks to satellite images, it was later confirmed to be a fireball meteor, according to the BBC.

Asteroids and meteors bring to mind the catastrophe that will touch Earth from time ti time, for instance in destruction t  in Russia in the early part of   the 20^th century, and   in the book of Revelation.

Some people think that the earth was riddled with water a  through a meteor.

A rare daytime fireball meteor triggered a loud sonic boom across parts of the United Kingdom and France over the weekend.

 

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Baker, Harry. 2021. Rare daytime fireball meteor creates massive sonic boom over UK | Live Science 25 March.

'Oumuamua is a foreign visitor, from an alien Pluto style planet

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Joel Kontinen 

Ever since it floated into our system, the interstellar visitor Oumuamua has intrigued and perplexed scientists. In 2017, 'Oumuamua was heralded as a spaceship sent by aliens. 

This was the opinion that Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb had. This was the opinion that Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb had. However, a new study says that 'Oumuamua's origin is explained by the fact that “two Arizona State University researchers argue that a nitrogen iceberg fits the data at least as well as a hydrogen iceberg: Such an iceberg could have become a wide disk as its surface slowly evaporated during its travels through the galaxy, just like a bar of soap flattens over the course of many showers. And,like hydrogen, evaporating nitrogen wouldn't be visible to telescopes””.

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 Letzter,  Rafi, 2021.  Interstellar visitor came from an 'alien Pluto,' new study suggests  Live Science 19 March. 

Exotic shark lived in the ocean in the dinosaur era

 

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Joel Kontinen

Some evolutionists think that a winged shark lived in Mexico in the ocean about 93 millions of years, ago.  It resembled a cross between a a shark and a manta ray.

It is called Aquilolamna milarcae or eagle shark of the Milarca Museum.

Even some of today’s creatures are a mix of foreign body parts, for instance the platypus is an enigma for evolution.  The platypus is a mammal, but it has a duck’s beak and it lays eggs.

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 Geggel, Laura. 2021.  'Winged' eagle shark soared through oceans 93 million years ago Live Science 19 March.