Joel Kontinen
Pieces of jawbone and teeth found in Egypt have been
identified as a new early ape species named Masripithecus
moghraensis, which lived about 17 million years ago
When according to evolution, was the earliest fossil of all apes
discovered.
A newly discovered ape species that lived around 17 million years ago suggests that the first apes may have evolved in North Africa, not East Africa as previously thought.
In 2023 and
2024, at the Wadi Moghra archaeological site in northern Egypt, Shorouq Al-Ashqar at Mansoura University, Egypt,
and her colleagues found teeth and jawbones from two ancient apes in deposits
dated to approximately 17 million to 18 million years old.
According to Genesis, God created each species so that it would fill the circle assigned to
it, so no thousands or millions of years are needed.
James Woodford 2026
Models suggest something is wrong with our picture of the early solar system. Image courtesy of Panther Media Global / Alamy.
Joel Kontinen
According to evolutionary story, our solar system’s rocky planets – Mercury,
Venus, Earth and Mars – may have formed from two rings around the young sun,
rather than a single disc.
The inner
solar system may have formed differently from how scientist thought must have. For decades, researchers
have thought that according to evolution, the rocky planets formed from a single disc of
dust and debris in the early solar system, but new simulations indicate there
might have been two separate discs of material.
Models
featuring a single disc or ring of material around the young sun tend to
be unable to recreate several features of the solar system as we observe it.
For one, Earth seems to be made of two different kinds of rocks, which wouldn’t
make sense if they all came from the same ring.
Also,
single-ring models tend to end up with Mercury and Mars too big, Venus and
Earth too close together and the compositions of Earth and Mars too similar.
The real history of the planets can be read from the book of
Genesis, in which God made the planets and stars at one go.
Leah Crane 2026
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.
Joel Kontinen
Can gems be found on Mars. Now according to the latest research,
it seems that are found.
The
Perseverance rover has found precious stones inside Martian pebbles. These
gem grains are made of a substance called corundum, which is also known as ruby
or sapphire depending on the traces of metals within it.
Ann Ollila at
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and her colleagues first spotted
hints of corundum while using Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument to examine a
rock called Hampden River. SuperCam has several different ways to test a
material’s composition, using two different lasers to either burn off its
surface or provoke luminescence, then two cameras to examine the resulting
light. In both tests, the results for Hampden River were nearly identical to
the results from rubies measured in the lab, indicating the presence of tiny
grains of corundum in the rock.
Source:
Leah Crane 2026 Fluor escent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time | New Scientist 18 March
Image courtesy of Sthivaios Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Joel Kontinen
Scientists
disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly
to blame for worse-than-expected heat in recent years.
Is global warming natural or is it brought by human actions?
We might not have the authority to ascertain this. But certain folks are sure that
humans are the source of global warming.
Temperatures over the past three years have been even higher than expected, provoking a
debate among scientists. Almost everyone agrees that global warming has
accelerated. But some researchers say it is speeding up even more than climate
models show, while others argue that the surge in temperatures is due to
natural fluctuations that will soon go away.
Depending
on who is right, we could have even less time than we thought to avoid or adapt
to catastrophic impacts.
Source:
Alec Luhn 2026 Why global warming is accelerating and what it means for the future | New Scientist 16 March
The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans, suggesting the comet has a cold and distant origin. Image courtesy of International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin.
Joel Kontinen
The presence of water does not mean that this comet is
teeming with life. It needs intelligent design to make water and other
ingredients turn into life.
The
interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains water and carbon molecules at levels never
before seen in our solar system. This suggests that it formed around an alien
star radically different from and much older than the sun.
Astronomers
have been tracking 3I/ATLAS since it entered our solar system last year – and
it is weird. It appears to be packed with far more carbon dioxide and water than
almost any other comet we have seen, and early estimates put its age
at 8 billion years – almost twice as old as the sun.
Martin
Cordiner at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and his
colleagues have found that its levels of deuterium – a form of hydrogen with an
extra neutron – are at least 10 times higher than in any comet we have seen
before.
Source:
Alex Wilkins 2026
The Dracon tree of Teneriffa. Image courtesy of CC BY-SA 3.0
Joel Kontinen
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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