No little green men on massive exoplanet

 

·     Image courtesy of  NASA/JPL-Caltech. 

Joel Kontinen

We would not want to see little green men on the exoplanet Smertrios. 

HD149026b, or Smertrios, is a so-called hot Jupiter, a Jupiter-like planet that orbits extremely close to its parent star, Its distance to the star is merely three earth days.  

The planet is so close to its star that its temperate is 1,425 degrees Celsius,  but unlike the massive stars in the solar system, the atmospheric composition of a planet has carbon and oxygen. 

Source:  

 Pultarova, Tereza. 2023. Webb telescope finds a 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet that defies expectations.  Space.com. 28 March. 

Just hatched zebrafish know how to count

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Joel Kontinen 

When do animals know how to count. Some individuals, Such as zebrafish can count when they are only four days old,

This is  an ingreadient that intelligent design does for animals, elephants know the difference betwen low and high numbers of fruit, and for instance hony bees and salamander know how to count, 

When do animals know how to count. Some individuals, Such as zebrafish can count when they are only four days old.

This is  an ingreadient that intelligent design does for animals, Elephants know the difference betwen low and high numbers of fruit, and for instance Stingrays,  honey bees and salamander know how to count., 

What is interesting is that at least one plant, the Venus flytrap, also knows how to count.

For Darwinists, animal intelligence is an enormous dilemma, and plant intelligence even more so.But in a created world we would expect animals and plants to show evidence of intelligence..  

Source:

Murugesu,  Jason Arunn.   Zebrafish seem to be able to count when they are just four days old.  New Scientist. 23 March. 

Climate change has altered the colour change of animals

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. joel Kontinen  

Some animals have adapted seasonal coat colour change. Now, climate change has begun to affect the extent and timing of snow cover and some individuals are mismatched to their background for a part of the years, for instance populations of white-tailed jack rabbits, are under selective pressure to better match coat colour to reduced snow cover.

 The change in colour is affecteded by intelligent design, but the animal do not know when to change their colour.

Source:  

Vignieri, Sacha. 2023. Mismatch fix, Science 25 March. 

 

Kuva; NASA. 

Joel Kontinen

Jupiterin ja Saturnuksen kuissa olevat halkeamat voivat olla liian harvinaisia tarjotakseen olosuhteet elämälle.

Europan ja Enceladuksen merenpohjan murtumien uskotaan antavan energiaa ja ravinteita, jotka ovat tärkeitä kaikelle siellä mahdollisesti olevalle elämälle, mutta ne eivät välttämättä koe tarpeeksi stressiä murtuakseen.

Koska näiden kylmien maailmojen ytimiä ei voi tarkkailla suoraan, niistä tiedetään hyvin vähän.

lähde:

Crane, Leah.2023, Fissures on ocean moons may be too rare to provide conditions for life New Scientist 22.3.

 

A spack rock swill zip past the Earth on Saturday

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Joel Kontinen

An asteroid called 2023 DZ2 will zip past the Earth at half the distance the Earth is from the moon or about 173,000 kilometrers from Earth, The space rock that caused such havoc in Russia  was just 18 metres across . This pace rock is between  44 and 99 meters in diametre.

The asteroid is known as an Apollo-class asteroid  As according to evolution,, it hails from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 

It is three times the size of the one that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 will zip by Earth at half the distance of the moon on Saturday  or March 25. 

Source; 

Pappas,  Stephanie, 2023.   Skyscraper-size asteroid will get closer to Earth than the moon on Saturday.  Live Science, 21 March. 

Macaques made human like stone tools

 

Image courtesy of Lydia V. Luncz. 

Joel Kontinen

How many of the world´s stone flakes tools were actually made by men? Now it seems that a lot was made by macaques,  some were almost identical to those made by men, dating to at least 3 million years ago.  A  research team in Thailand witnessed monkeys accidentally creating flakes as they struck nuts between two stones.

They were the same as macaques made today. Lydia Luncz at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany SAYS that capuchins, chimpanzees and long-tailed macaques are the only non-human primates known to use stone tools in the wild,

Monkey tales or Darwinian just-so-stories still flourish in science journals although it is questionable whether they have anything to do with real science. 

Source:  

Lesté-Lasserre,  Christa, 2023.  Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human 'tools'  New Scientist 10 March

Darwinian story is false

Image courtesy of Pacific Parrotlets. Image courtesy of markaharper1, CC BY-SA 2.0.  

Joel Kontinen

How do animals use bright coloration to warn of predators?_According to evolution, amphibians use warning coloration probable when they flee or  “intentionally displaying a hidden feature.” This work demonstrates such a trait how a trait may be through avoided through “intermediary phenotypes´”

But The evolution story is almost false as these stories often are. ,

 

Simonti,  Corinne. 2023, Warning signs, Science  17 March. 

Frst egg laying animal found in South America

 lmage courtesy of Fernando Novas. 

Joel Kontinen 

According to evolution, round 70 million years ago, a small, furry, platypus-like creature shuffled along the banks of an ancient lake. This would not have been a remarkable occurrence, except for one thing: The lake was in present-day Argentina, not Australia.

The discovery of this animal, dubbed Patagorhynchus pascuali, is the oldest fossil of the egg-laying mammal group known as monotremes ever discovered in South America. 

So how did this animal find itself in Australia?

According to evolution, Australia, South America and Antarctica (as well as parts of Africa and Asia) were  together in a supercontinent called Gondwana. 

Source: 

Thompson, Joanna, 2023.  Ancient platypus-like fossil could rewrite the history of egg-laying mammals,  Live Science  10 March. 

Unstable exomoons may pose a diffculty for liFe on some planets

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Joel Kontinen 

According to evolution, alien planets may collide with their own moons, They may be doing so regularly, 

Recently, a study  published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyion, alien planets may collide with their own moonsto show that collisions between exoplanets and their moons (called exomoons) may actually be a regular occurrence. These may be disaustous for any life on those planets, just like a Mars did for early Earth,  according to evolution. 

Source:

Lewis Briley.  2023, Unstable' moons may be obliterating alien life across the universe  Live Science 15 March

Convergent evolution cannot say why two butteflies have the same pattern.

 

Image courtesy of Luca Livraghi.

Joel Kontinen 

Convergent evolution can be explained by two species that have very different evolutionary trajectories, They can be different as in bats that ecolate like dolphins, but also in animals lik  butterflies that are separed with thousands of years.

Evolution is merely assumed. There is a much better explanation: bats and dolphins were designed that way.

  

 

 Source;  

Simonti,  Corinne, 2023. Subspecies of Heliconius erato butterflies, pictured here, have different wing patterns that are shared with other, more distant species through convergent evolution. Science 10 March

God formed the unIverse in the beginning

 Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, G. Gilmore ja Gladys Kober.

Joel Kontinen

Where do we come from? This simple question stems from a basic desire to know the truth.  But there is still so much mystery to unravel, says astrophysicist Artemis Spyrou.

If we leave evolution for the moment, the answer seems to be that God created us  in the beginning.

Source:  

 Spyrou , Artemis. 2023 How are the atoms that form us forged across the universe? New Scientist,  10 March

The be earliest animal may actually be a seaweed

 

Image courtesy of Zhang Xiguangmage.  

Joel Kontinen

The Cambrian fossil  Protomelission  may actually be a seaweed. Scientist thought that 515-million-year-old fossil may actually be a seaweed and not a not a bryozoan.  

It is quite hard to find the years a fosill with years marked on it.  Some of them were made in Noah's Flood when the Earth was subdued with water.   

Source:

 Lesté-Lasserre,  Christa. 2023. Fossil thought to be earliest animal may actually be seaweed. New Scientist  8 March. 

This dinosaur was a herbivore

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 Joel Kontinen

Scientists have stated  that Therizinosaurus, the scythe-clawed dinosaur from Jurassic World, couldn't have used its 'useless' gigantic claws to fight because they were too flimsy.

This dinosaur lived in the the Late Triassic and Cretaceous (220 million to 66 million years ago)..

But it was a herbivore that was suited to eat only plants .

Source:  

Pare,  Sascha. 2023. Jurassic World’s bizarre, scythe-clawed dinosaur couldn't have been a slasher, study confirms. Live Science 2 March. 

Three asteroids crossed the Earth's orbit

Image courtesy of NASA, John Hokkins, APL. 

Joel Kontinen 

Three asteroids, including two potentially hazardous ones, crossed the Earth's orbit last week. 

However, they will pass us at a distance of 3.5 milliion miles or 2.2 million kilometres, so we should not be afraid, that is hazardous for us.  That will be ten times the distance betwen the Earth and the moon.  

Source: 

 Specktor,  Brandon, 2023,  NASA warns of 3 skyscraper-sized asteroids headed toward Earth this week. Thankfully, they'll all miss. Live Science.  27 February, 

 

 

 

 

 

Influenza in fish “600 million years old"

 

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Joel Kontinen 

Since humans fell into sin, disease has rampant in humans and animal that are 600 million years old. 

Now scientist have noticed influenza viruses in fish that are "600 million years" old.

They say that viruses can be found in humans, birds, cats, whales and dolphins but they do not know the evolution of the virus.  

Source: 

 

Wong,  Carissa, 2023.   Influenza viruses may have originated in fish 600 million years ago. , New Scientist 1 March

 

Intelligent design treat can make a schrimp shoot very well

 

Gerald Robert Fischer/Shutterstock, 

Joel Kontinen

Shrimps protect themselves from shock waves by intelligent design They have a helmets to ward them off.  

 Biomimicry is a science that brings out that what God has designed. And what he did,  He did very well.

New Scientist says that  “juvenile snapping shrimp have broken the acceleration record for a repeatable body movement underwater. The tiny crustaceans can snap their claws with an acceleration of nearly 600,000 metres per second squared – similar to that of a bullet leaving the barrel of a gun, " 

Bigclaw snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis), which can grow to several centimetres long, have spring-like mechanisms on the larger of their two claws.

Source:

 Offord,  Catherine, 2023. Young snapping shrimp’s tiny claws beat underwater acceleration record.  New Scientist.  28 February