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. 

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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

 

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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.