Tuesday 31 January 2023

Time restricting eating makes us slimmer

 



Image courtesy of Shutterstock/Tatiana Bralnina. 

Joel Kontinen 

When people who are obese, restrict their eating to between 7am and 3pm, they start slimming 7.6 kilograms in 14 weeks. 

The practice of 16/8 intermittent fasting involves limiting your intake of foods andcalorie-containing beverages to a set window of 8 hours per day.


Source:  

Klein,  Alice . 2023. Only eating between 7am and 3pm helps people with obesity lose weight.  New Scientist 30 January,  


 

Sunday 29 January 2023

Darwinian evolution does not explain why we got here

 




Image courtesy of Epsilon Eridani/Wikimedia Commons, 

Joel Kontinen

In plants, rapid evolution is of a dominant marsh sedge Schoenoplectus americanus can alter the heritable variation of the biomass. This accounts for differences in sediment accreation and marsh elevation, factors that influence a marsh’s resilience to rises in sea level, 

So this does not have to do with Darwinian evolution, in the goo to you version.  

Source:

Lopez,  Bianca. 2023,  Ecosystem-scale effects of rapid evolution Science  27 January, 

Friday 27 January 2023

Two small primates found


 Image courtesy of Nobu Tamura,  CC-BY 4.

Joel Kontinen 


According to evolution, the Arctic was a warm, swampy place during the Eocene. Yet two primates lived there.

They lived during the Eocene epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago,, and according to evolution, a  period of intense planetary warming. -

They were small, at 2 kilos pr 5 pounds each, genus Ignacius, and were given the names of I. dawsonae and I. mckennai . 

Sourc: 

 

 Duke,  Cameron. 2023. 52 million years ago, strange primates lived in complete darkness in the Arctic Live Science 26 January. 


Wednesday 25 January 2023

Some asteroids are very hard to break


Image courtesy of JAXA.     

Joel Kontinen

Some asteroids are very hard to break. According to evolution, dust particles survived at least 4.2 billion years or near the age of the solar system. 

The Japanese gathered dust from the ´surface of a 500 meter or 1640 foot long Itokawa, and it would seem that they are harder to destroy than previously thought, - 

"NASA tracks the locations and orbits of roughly 28,000 asteroids", some of which might be deadly to us.   

Source:  

Turner,  Ben. 2023, Primordial asteroids are like giant space pillows and could be harder to destroy than previously thought Live Science 23 January, 


Monday 23 January 2023

It is hot in the Nebula

 



Image courtesy of Joseph DePasquale/STScI.

Joel Kontinen



The James Webb Space Telescope was used to view the nebula, which is hot and it was thought that properly five stars made it. 

It is hot and we are sure little green men are not sending any message to us,    

Evolutionists think that "when a star about the size of the sun dies, it sheds its outer layers and the stellar core left in the middle heats them and makes them glow." 


Source: 

Crane,  Leah, 2023.  Amazing JWST images show a nebula shaped by a multi-star system.  New Scientist,  20 January


Saturday 21 January 2023

Depression or glory to God. ,


Image courtesy of Giulia Neri. 

Joel Kontinen

Depression is a malady that effects most of us. It can  not be cured by antidepressant drugs restoring levels of a brain-signalling chemical called serotonin,

But now we know depression isn’t actually caused by low serotonin.

,How about giving glory to Godfor the beauty that is in us,  

 Source; 

Wilson , Clare. 2023. Fresh ideas about the causes of depression are bringing new treatments,  New Scientist 18 January. 


Thursday 19 January 2023

Children over the age of five can swift their attention better than chimps

  





Image courtesy of Stilfehler CC BY-SA 3.0

 

Joel Kontinen

What is the difference between children and chimpanzees? When it comes of heredity, people are much smarter than chimps, having genes that control the way they focus on a thing and take their focus off it.

A ¨test in which children were forced to choose rules or instructions for instance by choosing a different way when their route is blocked by roadworks. the test showed that children over the age of five could easily switch their focus from one task to another. 

Source:  

Taylor,  Luke. 2023. Children aged 5 are better at switching their attention than chimps.  New Scientist 18 January. 


Tuesday 17 January 2023

Volcanoes cool the atmosphere

 





Iimage courtesy of Galeria del Ministerio de Defensa del Perú CC BY 2.0, 

CC BY 2.0J

Joel Kontinen

Volcanoes can very drastic effects in the world, for instance by filling the earth  with  a volcanic plume into the mesosphere global-scale as well as wave motions in Earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

 They also cool the atmosphere.  

Sourc: 

 

Hodges,  Kip.  Planetary impacts of volcanic eruptions Science 6 Jamuary


Sunday 15 January 2023

Hummingbirds are millions of years old

 


Image curtesy of Jerome Gawe. 

Joel Kontinen

A loss pf a gene in  hummingbirds led to increased muscle energy, according to Darwinists. They know little of its purported evolution,   

But they say that Osipova et al,  found that a gluconeogenic muscle enzyme, FBP2, was lost as hovering flight evolved. They are assured that this loss of a gene can be adaptive.

Some researchers have found  soft tissue in a 47  million year old bird. This would call for questioning the evolutionary dogma of millions of years.

Source:  

Vignieri, Sacha. 2023.  Loss leads to gain. Science 12 January. 


Friday 13 January 2023

A comet that we may see with our eyes.

 

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Image courtesy of Edu INAF, CC BY-SA 2.0

Joel Kontinen

A comet that is called C/2022 E3 WILL come near us in the future. On Thursday January 12 it will be at perihelion, its closest point to the sun when we see a coma. 

The comet could be visible near the northern sky constellation Corona Borealis and then will move westward as time goes on. By Feb. 1, when the comet makes its closest approach to Earth, at 45 million kilometres or  28 million miles the comet could be visible near the northern sky constellation Corona Borealis,  and then will move westward as time goes on. 

 Many comets have elliptical paths that bring them very close to the sun. A comet loses much of its material each time it approaches the sun.  It has been estimated that a comet will loose all its mass in under 100 000 years. This is a serious problem for the secular view of a 4.6 billion year old solar system. If the solar system were that old, we should not see any comets.


Wendel.  JoAnna.   2023. Rare green comet not seen since the Stone Age will zoom overhead tonight. Here's how to watch. Live Science 12 January.  


Wednesday 11 January 2023

Extraterrestrials have not called us yet



 Image courtesy of NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter. 


Joel Kontinen


If our world was made by Darwinian ways, who do not the vast universe also teem with life?

But they have not responded to Earth´s calls. "Maybe aliens are waiting for the exact right moment,  Aliens may be waiting until a cosmic version of "high noon" to send out all but two of the signals were determined to be due to interference.

Telescope to search for radio signals from 12 exoplanets whose transits were observable during a brief window in March 2018. In a new study, researchers hunted for technological signs of E.T. during the moments when exoplanets pass directly in front of their suns, from Earth's point of view. These exact moments could be the perfect chance for an alien world to beam out a signal to Earthlings in an attempt to make contact their signals to us, scientists have suggested. 

The remaining two, a couple of short bursts from Kepler-1332b and Kepler-842b — both potentially rocky planets larger than Earth — were deemed worthy of further follow-up. However, Sheikh said, those two are also almost certainly due to interference and are not real messages."  


 Pappas.  Stephanie – 2023. Why hasn't ET phoned Earth? Maybe aliens are waiting for the exact right moment. Live Science 6 January,  

Monday 9 January 2023

Earth did not have an ozone layer at the end of the Permian


Image courtesy of Shutterstock/studio23. 


Joel Kontinen

Millions of years ago, the earth did not have an ozone layer. This is the speculation some Darwinists have made.  They say that it happened during the Permian extinction, when about 90 per cent of marine species and 70 per cent of land ones died.  

But what happened to the rest of the animals? We have the tardigrades have been persent since the present since the Cambrian  strata “530 million years” ago. 

Source: 

Le Page,  Michael, 2022, The ozone layer was destroyed during Earth's biggest mass extinction.  New Scientist. 6 January. 


Saturday 7 January 2023

Exoplanet TOI-778 b is hot and lifeless

   



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Joel Kontinen

For evolutionists, finding a hot Jupiter right in front of a star would put star forming strategies out of order.  An exoplanet that is called TOI-778 b celebrates a  a trip around its sun every 4.6 days. 

This planet orbits its star at 9 million kilometres or 5.6 million miles. It is much closer than  Mercury to our sun.  Its temperature is 1,500 Kelvin or 1227 degrees Celsius,  so we should not find little green men there. , 

Source: 

Lea , Robert, 2022, Newfound 'hot jupiter' exoplanet celebrates new year's every 5 days.   Space. com

3 January

Thursday 5 January 2023

Chernobyl frogs' rapid evolution


 Image courtesy of German  Gorizaola. 

Joel Kontinen

Darwinists are hailing the Chernobyl frogs' rapid evolution, It brings to mind the peppered moth. ,   

The peppered moth (Biston betularia) is one of the most famous icons of evolution that Darwinists have treasured since the Victorian times. Darwinian evolution would be in big trouble without mutation.

 A paper published in Nature in 2016 examined the genetic changes that made the peppered moth famous. Dr Ilik Saccheri, at the University of Liverpool, one of the co-authors of the study, believes that a mutation occurred in a transposable element (TE or transposon) probably in 1819, helping the moth to adapt to a darker industrial world.

While the darker moths were better able to survive in cities, the lighter variety did not die out, and since the 1960s, their numbers have increased considerably, as the air in urban centres has become cleaner.

 Evolution needs change and this requires mutations that are like typos in a blog post

Typos seldom improve a post.

The nuclear accident in Fukushima shows why mutations are no friends of the evolutionist. They have damaged the butterflies’ wings.


Natural selection cannot make use of such mutations.

So this it what live science says of the matter.  "Eastern tree frogs with high concentrations of the dark pigment melanin in their skin were more likely to survive the Chernobyl nuclear disaster than their highlighter-yellow counterparts, a recent study suggests. The frogs' dark skin may have helped protect them from the damaging effects of radiation. Today, frog populations within the radioactive contamination zone are significantly darker than those outside the zone. "

Source:  

 Lanese,  Nicoletta; . 2022,  12 wild and wondrous animal facts we learned in 2022 Live Science 27 December