Friday 29 March 2024

Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time

 

Image courstecy of Daiju Azuma ,  CC BY-SA 2.5



 Joel Kontinen

The giant water bugs have originally come from Cyprus.  “The bugs, also called "toe biters," belong to the Lethocerus genus, which includes bird-eating species that can grow to around centimetres or 4.7 inches long.”

They  can  bite unsuspecting humans between the toes and thus they are called  toe biters.  They cannot harm humans in other ways.  

The bugs  probably got their venom after the fall of man, as recorded in Genesis 3. 

Source:

Patrick Pester, 2024. Giant 'toe biter' water bugs discovered in Cyprus for the 1st time | Live Science 25 March 


Wednesday 27 March 2024

Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints

 


Image courtesy of Leonardo Troiano/ National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Brazil.

Joel Kontinen

What do the ancient tribes of Brazil have to do with dinosaurs?

”Mysterious rock carvings found next to dinosaur tracks in Brazil suggest ancient people discovered the footprints thousands of years ago and recognised them as meaningful.

The Serrote do Letreiro site in Paraíba state features the footprints of theropod, sauropod and ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Epoch, between 145 million and 100 million years ago. Adjacent to these are numerous rock carvings, or, petroglyphs, predominantly circular with radial lines and other abstract motifs.”

But the dates supposed for the dinosaurs is in error. They can be that old.

Source:

Soumya Sagar, 2024Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints | New Scientist 26 March.

 



Monday 25 March 2024

How do dogs understand words and what they mean?

 

Image courtesy of Gorodenkoff /, Shutterstock​. 

Joel Kontinen

When evolutionists think that great apes have the skill to understand words and their objects, science has a different story to tell.  

Now dogs can learn the names of objects. ”dogs seem to understand that words represent specific objects, recordings of their brain activity suggest.”

Dogss seem to understand that words represent specific objects, recordings of their brain activity suggest.

Marianna Boros at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and her colleagues tested 18 dogs from a wide range of breeds, including Border collies, toy poodles and Labrador retrievers.

Source:

James Woodford. 2024, Dogs really do understandthat words stand for objects, 22 March



Friday 22 March 2024

Crock Cousin Found In Texas

 

Image courtesy of  Márcio L. Castro

Joel Kontinen

Fossil discovered in 1989 found to be new species of aetosaur — a massive armored crocodile Cousin That Lived During The Late Triassic.

What kind of animals did the dinosaur era contain?

“Huge armored crocodile cousin with plates embedded in its skin and curved spikes along its flanks roamed our planet 215 million years ago,” evolution believing scientists reveal.

The timing of the found is spurious, It probably found its death in the flood of Noah’s day.

Source:

Patrick Pester. 2024, Triassic 'tank' unearthed in Texas was a croc cousin that lived 215 million years ago | Live Science  20 March



Wednesday 20 March 2024

There is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe

 

Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria), B. Frye (University of Arizona), P. Kamieneski (Arizona State University), T. Carleton (Arizona State University), and R. Windhorst (University of Arizona.

Joel Kontinen 

“The universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists say that it is “not a measurement error.”

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look.”

This is known as the Hubble Tension, a study published on  February 6 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggests that there may be something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe.

Yes, here is still much that we do not know of the universe, It is surrounded things we do not know about. But anyhow, the big bang view of the universe is wrong,

Source:  

Ben Turne. 2024 James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe | Live Science 14 March


 


Tuesday 19 March 2024

Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan

 

 Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Nantes/University of Arizona

Joel  Kontinen

Evolution with its millionsof years poses many problems for the universe. Some features are not as old  as the age of the solar system,

What is new about Saturn’s moon Titan? New research is claiming that ridges cover its poles.   

It is said that landforms called “yardangs can form on Earth – and they might also be on Saturn’s moon Titan.”

They might be yardings or some other features, There is still much we don’t know about Saturn and its moons.

 Source:

Leah Crane, 2024, Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan | New Scientist  15 March.


Saturday 16 March 2024

Life on Europa?

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

Will there be life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa? That is what NASA is waiting for.

The message will be sent by the Europa Clipper spacecraft. which will start in October 2024.

“If any life is found on Europa, it is likely to be microbial, so the commemorative plate is more of a symbolic gesture than a bona fide message to extraterrestrial life forms, per se. “

The message has the names of some 2,6 million individuals:  

More than 2.6 million names have been stenciled into a "dime-size" silicon microchip by technicians at the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This microchip will be attached to a commemorative plate, which will feature a handwritten copy of the poem "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa" by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, among other design details.

Source:

Emily Cooke, 2024, NASA unveils cryptic message from Earth to be sent to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa | Live Science 13 March



Thursday 14 March 2024

Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life

 


Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute.

Joel Kontinen

Is there life on Europa? A few weeks ago, it seemed that there was.  But now it seems that there is not.

“Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may not be as ripe for life as previously thought. Its underground ocean has long made it one of the most promising candidates in our solar system to host life, but theoretical studies of its seafloor are putting a damper on its promise.”

On Earth, much of the life in the oceans is supported by hydrothermal activity at the seafloor, where water interacts with rock. This activity is missing on Europa.“

Well, God made the Earth a space for humans and not other planets or their moons.

Source:

 Leah Crane, 2024. Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life | New Scientist 13 March.


Tuesday 12 March 2024

When did humans start wearing clothes?

 


Homo heidelbergensis. Image courtesy of  Benoît Clarys/University of Tübingen.

 Joel Kontinen

The answer varies. According of some evolutionists, early humans were in the trees, just like apes and learnt to walk on two feet, but they did not have fur, so that clothing became important,

As early humans evolved from ape-like ancestors, they came down from the trees, began to walk upright and lost their fur. But without fur, our ancestors would have been exposed to the elements. They would have needed clothing for protection.

Some evolutionist propose that some 1,2 millions years ago we lost our fur,  but lice was a problem, so they started to wear  clothes,

According to the real history in Genesis, men and women started to wear clothes after the fall in Genesis 3.

Source:

Ashley Hamer. 2024, When did humans start wearing clothes? | Live Science 10 March.

Monday 11 March 2024

When were the first stars born?

 

 Image courtesy of: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)/Ben Johnson (CfA)/Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge)/Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona)/Daniel Eisenstein (CfA)).

Joel Kontinen

According to evolutionists, the first generation of stars to exist in the universe has “come to light, thanks to observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The proof is located in one of the most distant galaxies known.”

The galaxy, called GN-z11, “was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015 and, prior to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, it was considered the most faraway galaxy known. “With a redshift of 10.6, it makes more sense to talk about how long ago it existed, rather than how far away it is.”

According to Genesis 1, they were born as the rest of creation was formed.

Source:

Keith Cooper. 2024, The James Webb Space Telescope may have found some of the very 1st stars | Space  5 March.


Saturday 9 March 2024

Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption finally explained

 

Image courtesy of Shutterstock / Belikova Oksana.

 Joel Kontinen

Mysterious green sunsets were reported after the massive eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 – now simulations show how they were created and just how rare they are.

How did the ice age begin?

If we leave evolutionistic consideration aside, the real culprit might be the flood of Noah’s day, with eruptions covering the most of the Earth.

“Strange green sunsets reported after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa were probably caused by the large amount and size of sulphur aerosols the volcano injected into the stratosphere.

“How can physics or nature create green twilight colours?” says Christian von Savigny at the University of Greifswald in Germany, who became intrigued after reading descriptions of such sunsets in the months after Krakatoa’s eruption in Indonesia.”

 

Source:

 James Dinneen, 2024,  Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption finally explained | New Scientist4 March.



Thursday 7 March 2024

Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech

Joel Kontinen

It is a hard for evolutionists, for “Jupiter’s moon Europa may be less ripe for life than we thought. Although it has an ocean of water beneath its icy shell, the frigid moon may be short of the oxygen necessary to sustain life as we know it.”

They just taught that Europa was ripe pr life. Now they are disappointed.  

“Oxygen is produced on Europa when radiation hits its surface and splits the water ice there into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen. Models of that process have suggested the rate of oxygen production could be anywhere from 5 to over 1000 kilograms per second.

Jamey Szalay at Princeton University and his colleagues used data from the Juno spacecraft, which flew just 353 kilometres above Europa’s surface in 2022, to make a new estimate. They found oxygen is only being produced at a rate of about 12 kilograms per second on the surface – right at the low end of previous estimates.

“In some sense, the shell is like a lung for Europa. It’s continuously generating oxygen,” says Szalay. “That being said, we can’t speak to what happens after the oxygen is produced on the surface – it’s still a question how much of it could get into the ocean.”

Source:

Leah Crane 2024 Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought | New Scientist 4 March 



Tuesday 5 March 2024

How old, according to evolutionists, is the first discovered fossil forest?

 


Image courtesy of Christopher Berry. 

Joel Kontinen

When, according to evolutionists, was the first fossil forest discovered? A survey  in southwest England said that a forest that was 390 million years was found.

“The 390 million-year-old fossils supplant the Gilboa fossil forest in New York state, which dates back 386 million years”.

“This now-extinct type of plants, known as cladoxylopsids, is thought to be closely related to ferns and sphenopsids (horsetails).”

Source:

Sascha Pare, 2024, 390 million-year-old fossilized forest is the oldest ever discovered | Live Science 5 March



Sunday 3 March 2024

When does the Bible talk about the West Bank?

 

Image courtesy of Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0

Joel Kontinen

When does the Bible talk about the west bank of the river Jordan? It does not speak about it all, Jesus went to Judea and Samaria when he preached. He was born in Bethlehem now is occupied by Arabs. 

While Joe Biden and David Cameron talk about the blessings of a two state solution, most Israelis are opposed to it.

“Judea and Samaria was renamed the ‘West Bank’ by Jordan, following the Jordanian capture of that region in the 1948 War of Independence and its subsequent occupation until 1967,” the resolution of a  conference stated, noting that, ironically, the region is located in the eastern side of Israel. 

In a Christian conference in the United States in which several Jews also ls spoke,   the Rabbi Elie Mischel  said:  “Language is very powerful and very dangerous. The Jordanians made up the name “West Bank”, and it falsely implies that the “primary” biblical land is modern day Jordan, while Judea and Samaria are merely the “West Bank” of the Jordan River. But this language is deceitful. Judea and Samaria are not of secondary importance. They are the biblical heartland of Israel, where the great majority of the Bible took place! “

 

Source: 

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz 2024. Judea and Samaria is its only name 28 February


Friday 1 March 2024

Why humans don't have tails?

 

Image courtesy of SciePro via Shutterstock.

Joel Kontinen

Researchers identify a unique DNA mutation that's at least partly responsible for the loss of our ancestors' tails. 

Why do we not have tails? This is the questions that evolutionists tend to ask.

In their view, “approximately 25 million years ago, an ancestor of both humans and apes genetically diverged from monkeys and lost its tail. No one had identified the genetic mutation responsible for this dramatic change in our physiology — until now.

In a new study published Wednesday (Feb. 28) in the journal Nature, researchers identified a unique DNA mutation that drove the loss of our ancestors' tails. It's located in the gene TBXT, which is known to be involved in tail length in tailed animals.”

We know from Genesis, that God created each creature independently. There was no chance of a man growing a tail.

But an article in Live Science has this to say; “over millions of years, changes in DNA allow animals to evolve. Some changes involve only a single rung in DNA's twisted ladder, but others are more complex”.

This is an instance of Darwinian storytelling, with no facts to support it. While it talks about the” Aku elements that are present in great apes but not in monkeys “. This does not mean that the great apes are our ancestors.

Source:

Jennifer Zieba, 2924. We finally know why humans don't have tails | Live Science  29 Fbraury,