The dragon tree might have its beginning in Genesis

 

The Dracon tree of Teneriffa. Image courtesy of CC BY-SA 3.0

Joel Kontinen

 The dragon tree (Dracaena draco) could have its beginning in Genesis, where it might have been the tree that God told Adam and Eve never to touch. Yet they did, and it brought disaster to the world.

The genus name Dracaena is from the ancient Greek word dracaena or she-dragon. The dragon tree can be a live for hundreds of years. 

 Source:

Andrew Sibling, The dragon tree of Tenerife, Creation 2 , 12-13.

What does intelligent design do for ants?

 

Kuva:  Piotr Naskrecki. 

Joel Kontinen

The leafcutter ant (A. echinatior) genome contained a whopping 34,821genes with over 12,151 genes not found in any other insect or ant species, not only does the leafcutter ant have a highly complex social structure. but it forms a special fungus from the leaves in a large factual garden, the complexity of this ant’s behavior and the specialized digestive system needed to farm and eat fungus require a large set of specialized genes.

Averaged all over in all 30 included insect and arthropod out-cropped species, approximately 13% of all protein coding genes lack a similar counterpart in any other species. These numbers fall within the expected range of 10 to 3o per cent for all species-specific orphan genes in other studies.

Darwinian evolution does not account for this, they were produced by the creator of all things, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Source:  

Jeffery P Tomkins. 2026. Novel orphan genes aid in regulated adaptation, Acts and Facts 1 – 2, 18- 22.

Iranian Football Team's Defiant Stand Against The Regime

 

Australia gives asylum to five Iranian footballers after they did not salute the Iranian flag. 

Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

 

The advent of farming led to new evolutionary pressures on humans. Image courtesy of  Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought.

When did humans really evolve according to Darwinism? According to the book of Genesis, they started at the advent of humanity, but the evolution believing people have a different view, supposing it was during the time man discovered farming.  

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in different parts of the world evolved in similar – and sometimes even identical – ways after we adopted farming.

“Some of the same traits and the same genes are under selection in different populations,” says Laura Colbran at the University of Pennsylvania.

Source: 

Michael Le Page 2026 Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming | New Scientist 10 March

Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

Billions of years ago Mars hosted lakes, streams and perhaps even a huge ocean according to evolution believing scientists.

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a new evolutionary study has found.

The findings, published earlier this week in the journal PNAS Nexus, may prompt scientists to reconsider where life could exist across the solar system and could lead to a reassessment of "planetary protection" rules designed to prevent contamination between worlds.

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another," study co-author Kaliat Ramesh, a mechanical engineer at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said. "This is a really big deal that changes the way you think about the question of how life begins and how life began on Earth."

Researchers recently exposed the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans to the pressures experienced during an asteroid strike. The microbe survived, suggesting that impacts could spread life from planet to planet. 

The new findings lend support to a long-debated theory known as lithopanspermia, which proposes that life can spread between planets by hitching a ride on fragments of rock blasted into space by massive impacts. The idea remains unproven.

For the study, Ramesh and his colleagues tested the endurance of Deinococcus radiodurans, an exceptionally resilient bacterium found, among other places, in Chile's high-altitude deserts. With a thick outer shell and a remarkable ability to repair its own DNA, D. radiodurans is famously tolerant of intense radiation, freezing temperatures, extreme dryness and other harsh conditions similar to those found in space. It has been nicknamed "Conan the bacterium," after all.

To simulate the forces involved in an asteroid impact, the researchers sandwiched samples of D. radiodurans between two steel plates. Using a gas-powered gun, they fired a projectile at roughly 300 mph (480 kph), subjecting the microbes to pressures between 1 and 3 gigapascals.

Nearly all of the microbes survived impacts generating 1.4 gigapascals of pressure, while about 60% remained alive at 2.4 gigapascals. At lower pressures, the cells showed no signs of damage, though researchers observed ruptured membranes and some internal cellular damage at higher pressures, the study reports.

"We continuously redefine the limits of life," Madhan Tirumalai, a microbiologist at the University of Houston who was not involved with the new study, told The New York Times.

As the pressure increased, the researchers also detected heightened activity in genes responsible for repairing DNA and maintaining cell membranes.

"We expected it to be dead at that first pressure," Lily Zhao, a mechanical engineer at JHU who led the experiment, said in the statement. "We started shooting it faster and faster. We kept trying to kill it, but it was really hard to kill."

The experiment eventually ended, the statement read, because the steel structure holding the plates "fell apart before the bacteria did."

This study does not take the existence of a Creator as established. Only God can give life to planets such as Earth.

Source:

Sharmila Kuthunur 2026 Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests | Space 6 March

Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction

 

Image courtesy of Christian Darkin/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

The worst known mass extinction wiped out over 80 per cent of marine species. But despite these huge losses, many ecosystems did not collapse, with a variety of animals and even top predators managing to survive the cataclysm.

The findings suggest that each ecosystem’s fate was determined, in part, by its own unique mix of species. The same may be true of modern marine ecosystems, which are also facing major threats from climate change.

The mass extinctions that evolutionists think are true, never happened millions of years ago. Many creationists say that they happen ed at the time of Noah’s flood, some 4,500 years ago.

Source:

Michael Marshall 2026 Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction | New Scientist 4 March 

 

It will be Purim in Israel in a few days. In 400 BC during the event, the proud Haman tried to kill all Jews but Mordecai and Esther attempted to kill the Jews, and Haman and his sons were killed on the gallows he had designed for Mordecai.

Now, with the death of Khamenei on Purim has been reached its goal.  The suppressor of the Jews  is no more.