Two-State Solution?

 

Palestinians and some European states prefer a two-state solution, but Israel says it is not possible any more.

Why Should Christians Be Zionists?

 

Why Should Christians Be Zionists? 

Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life

 

Image courtesy of NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists suppose that there might be traces of past life on Mars. They found in traces of channels that might speak of ancient life. However, life needs a creator to begin.

Caves carved by water that once flowed beneath Mars’s surface could have been ideal for life to thrive, if it once existed on the Red Planet, and they might still preserve traces of it today.

Mars is dotted with holes that look like cave entrances, but these are usually near regions that are suspected to have been volcanically active, which suggests they formed due to processes like underground lava flows, rather than the passage of water.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life | New Scientist 11 November 

Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised

 

Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar region. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltec

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists think that there might be some kind of life on Enceladus.

The liquid water ocean hidden underneath the icy crust of Enceladus has long made this moon of Saturn one of the best prospects in the hunt for extraterrestrial life – and it just got even more promising. The discovery of heat emanating from the frozen moon’s north pole hints the ocean is stable over geological timescales, giving life time to develop there.

“For the first time we can say with certainty that Enceladus is in a stable state, and that has big implications for habitability,” says Carly Howett at the University of Oxford. “We knew that it had liquid water, all sorts of organic molecules, heat, but the stability was really the final piece of the puzzle.”

Howett and her colleagues used data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, to hunt for heat seeping out of Enceladus. Its interior is heated by tidal forces as it is stretched and crunched by Saturn’s gravity, but so far this heat has only been caught leaking out of the south polar regions.

For life to have developed in Enceladus’s ocean, it would require balance: the ocean should be putting out as much heat as is being put in. Measurements of the heat coming out of the south pole don’t account for all of the heat input, but Howett and her team found the north pole is about 7°C warmer than we previously thought. Combined with the heat radiating from the south pole, that matches the total almost exactly – the ice shell is thicker around the equator, so heat only escapes in significant amounts at the poles.

This means the ocean should be stable over long periods of time. “It’s really hard to put a number on it, but we don’t think it’s going to freeze out anytime soon, or that it’s been frozen out anytime recently,” says Howett. “We know life needs time to evolve, and now we can say that it does have that stability.” Actually finding that life, if it is there, is another story entirely. But both NASA and ESA have missions in the works o look for it over the coming decades.

But life needs a Creator.  Life cannot just spring from nothing.

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Leah Crane 2025 Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised | New Scientist 7 November 

Kristallnacht

 

Kristallnacht was the start of the Holocaust, which 6 millions Jews were killed. But in 2023 Hamas made also Holocaust. 

A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web

 

Image courtesy of Illustris Collaboration/ESO

Can a cosmic web strangle a galaxy? This seems to be the case with a distant galaxy.

The cosmic web is killing a galaxy. Galaxies can only continue to form stars when they are full of gas, and one dwarf galaxy nearly 100 million light years away is being stripped of its stellar fuel by the enormous web of matter that stretches throughout the universe.

One side of this galaxy, called AGC 727130, looks completely normal. On the other side, though, the gas is stretched well beyond the galaxy’s edge, pulled away by some unseen force. Nicholas Luber at Columbia University in New York and his colleagues spotted this disintegrating galaxy using the Very Large Array, a radio observatory in New Mexico.

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Leah Crane 2025 A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web | New Scientist 7 November

Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat

 

Image courtesy of Australian Associated Press/Alamy

Joel Kontinen

Algae bloom poses a great problem in Australia. It is killing fish.

Over the past eight months, a vast and deadly algal bloom in South Australia has ravaged over 20,000 square kilometres of the marine environment, killed an estimated 1 million animals from more than great 550 species and had widespread impacts on human health.

Now, researchers have finally identified the species behind the ecological disaster, and they warn that it represents an “emerging international threat with unknown consequences”.

The culprit is an algal species named Karenia cristata, which has only previously been reported in two locations near South Africa, where it caused fish die-offs in 1989 and again the mid-1990s, as well as off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

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James Woodford 2025 Toxic algae blighting South Australia could pose a global threat | New Scientist 5 November