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REVIVED 46,000 YEAR OLD WORM DEBUNKS MACRO-EVOLUTION

REVIVED 46,000 YEAR OLD WORM DEBUNKS MACRO-EVOLUTION

CNN ARTICLE, July 28,2023:

“Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and giant elks still roamed the Earth.

The roundworm, of a previously unknown species, survived 40 meters (131.2 feet) below the surface in the Siberian permafrost in a dormant state known as cryptobiosis, according to Teymuras Kurzchalia, professor emeritus at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and one of the scientists involved in the research.

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Organisms in a cryptobiotic state can endure the complete absence of water or oxygen and withstand high temperatures, as well as freezing or extremely salty conditions. They remain in a state “between death and life,” in which their metabolic rates decrease to an undetectable level, Kurzchalia explained.

“One can halt life and then start it from the beginning. This a major finding,” he said, adding that other organisms previously revived from this state had survived for decades rather than millennia.

Five years ago, scientists from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Russia found two roundworm species in the Siberian permafrost.

One of the researchers, Anastasia Shatilovich, revived two of the worms at the institute by simply rehydrating them with water, before taking around 100 worms to labs in Germany for further analysis, transporting them in her pocket.

After thawing the worms, the scientists used radiocarbon analysis of the plant material in the sample to establish that the deposits had not been thawed since between 45,839 and 47,769 years ago.

But still, they didn’t know whether the worm was a known species. Eventually, genetic analysis conducted by scientists in Dresden and Cologne showed that these worms belonged to a novel species, which researchers named Panagrolaimus kolymaenis.

Researchers also found that the P. kolymaenis shared with C. elegans — another organism often used in scientific studies — “a molecular toolkit” that could allow it to survive cryptobiosis. Both organisms produce a sugar called trehalose, possibly enabling them to endure freezing and dehydration.

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“To see that the same biochemical pathway is used in a species which is 200, 300 million years away, that’s really striking,” said Philipp Schiffer, research group leader of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Cologne and one of the scientists involved in the study. “It means that some processes in evolution are deeply conserved.”

And, Schiffer added, there are other actionable insights which can be gleaned by studying these organisms.

“By looking at and analyzing these animals, we can maybe inform conservation biology, or maybe even develop efforts to protect other species, or at least learn what to do to protect them in these extreme conditions that we have now,” he told CNN.”
 
In the CNN article above, “Philipp Schiffer, research group leader of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Cologne”, admits: “It means that some processes in evolution are deeply conserved.” This newly discovered and revived 46,000 year old worm is more evidence that the Darwinian theory of Macro-Evolution is deeply flawed, and does not fit the facts. This 46,000 year-old worm is much like worms in existence today, indicating that Darwinism, or Macro-Evolution, does not happen, and has never happened.  read more

DESPERATE DARWINISTS STILL GRABBING STRAWS FOR ‘MISSING LINKS’

DESPERATE DARWINISTS STILL GRABBING STRAWS FOR ‘MISSING LINKS’

“People who prophesy out of their own imaginations.”—Ezekiel 13:17 NIV

“Pursuing their own imaginations.”—Isaiah 65:2 NIV

“Your mind will imagine confusing things.”Proverbs 23:33 NIV

Like the literal drunkard in Proverbs 23:33 “imagining confusing things,” Darwinists have been drunk on their own theories for a long time. read more

DARWINIAN EVOLUTION’S MISSING LINK – SPECIATION

DARWINIAN EVOLUTION’S MISSING LINK – SPECIATION

“You were slaves to those who by nature are not gods”—Galatians 4:8 NIV.

Bacteria
Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another

Macro-Evolution, or Darwinism has achieved god-like status in the scientific and educational communities. It has achieved such honor as a sacred-cow, that it is not supposed to be even questioned.

Darwinian evolution depends primarily on one thing: speciation, which is defined as “the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution”. Evolutionists claim they have lots of “proof” for this. However, when their claims are examined, (excluding the outright frauds, such as “Piltdown Man”), they are simply assertions, or assumptions without actual proof. The big assumption the theory hangs on is the minor variations within “kinds”, that is called Micro-Evolution. A typical example is the many different varieties of dogs, but they are all still dogs, no matter how much variation there is between them. The problem for evolutionists is that we don’t see dogs evolving into deer or bears do we? So Darwinists are forced claim that over long periods of time, such as millions of years, these large-scale changes occurred. The reason we don’t see them happening now is that over a relatively short period of time, say a hundred years even, these changes can’t be seen. read more

BABY BIRD FOSSIL UPSETS EVOLUTIONISTS’ APPLECART—AGAIN

BABY BIRD FOSSIL UPSETS EVOLUTIONISTS’ APPLECART—AGAIN

“God created . . . winged birds in their own species”—Genesis 1:21 NJB

According to a new article at Science Daily, the fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is causing scientists to reevaluate their previous thoughts on evolution.

Once again, evolutionists are having to revise their story, after this newly analyzed ‘early baby bird’ fossil was analyzed in greater detail recently, using the latest state-of-the-art technology. It is very interesting that they admit “this particular group of avians may have been more diverse than previously thought”. Also, one of the study’s co-authors added: “It is amazing to realize how many of the features we see among living birds had already been developed more than 100 million years ago”. This is an inadvertent admission that macro-evolution has actually not taken place. read more

“Modern Humans Left Africa Much Earlier”?

“Modern Humans Left Africa Much Earlier”?

A new article on BBC News entitled “Modern humans left Africa much earlier” was published on January 25, 2018. The story can be read here.

Image from BBC article
Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv Uni

Anthropological evolution is being revised again! Due to recent discoveries, “We have to rewrite the whole story of human evolution,” the article quotes researchers as admitting. If they only used the Bible as their guide, they wouldn’t have to keep constantly revising their story. They would know that the human race did not originate and spread abroad from Africa, but from the Tower of Babel area, which is located in what is northern Iraq today. “In that way (confusing their languages, Genesis 11:1-7), the LORD scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city. That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.” (Genesis 11:8,9 NLT)  read more

Where is our Last Common Ancestor (LCA)?

Where is our Last Common Ancestor (LCA)?

Last Common Ancestor (LCA)
Darwinists persistently assert that there is a “missing link” between humans and apes

“He catches the wise in their own =&0=&

“We still have not found the missing link between us and apes” is the title of an article published by BBC News on May 18, 2017. The article is about the search for a “missing link.” Since there are no living creatures that fill in the gaps or “missing links” between humans and apes, Darwinists persistently assert that there was a “last common ancestor” (LCA). “Most people know it by a non-scientific name: ‘the missing link.'”

“Scientists have been on the trail of the LCA for decades, and they still have not found it.” It has a lot in common with Big Foot – you know it has to be out there somewhere. The only problem is you never can find it. Scientists have had a lot of trouble trying to even agree on much of anything about this LCA. But the article assures us that the “fossilized remains of the LCA might come to light any time.”

Really?

“They might even be discovered this very year.” Don’t hold your breath, though. Why? “Because there is so little agreement on what the LCA should look like, researchers will interpret the fossils differently, the article admits. Never fear, though, for the safety of the evolution theory of Darwinism! Just as any and all critics and criticism of the ancient goddess Artemis was and were drowned out with “shouting: ‘Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!'” (Acts 19:28 NIV) So it is today with the goddess of Darwinism.

Never mind that all living things were both created and reproduce “according to their kinds.” (Genesis 1:11-12; Genesis 1:21-25 CSB) Never mind that no “missing links” exist in the world today. Never mind that scientists cannot agree on any LCA or “missing link” for humans and animals. These truths are generally “suppressed.” (Romans 1:18 CSB) Darwinists “have exchanged the truth of God for a lie.” (Romans 1:25 NIV; CSB) This LCA has been asserted now for the past 150 years. The only problem is they can’t find it, because it doesn’t exist. “Instead, their thinking became nonsense” (Romans 1:21 CSB), “although claiming to be wise.” (Romans 1:22 CSB) And no wonder: “they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom do they really have?” (Jeremiah 8:9 CSB)

Fossil Sheds Light on ‘Jurassic Park’ Dinosaurs

Fossil Sheds Light on ‘Jurassic Park’ Dinosaurs

Herd of dinosaurs
Vouivria herd roaming a coastal lagoon (Imperial College London)

“How countless are your works, Yahweh, all of them made so wisely! The earth is full of your creatures”—-Psalm 104:24 NJB

“Fossil sheds light on ‘Jurassic Park’ dinosaurs” is the title of an article published on May 2, 2017 by BBC News. The article shows how flimsy and precarious the entire theory of macroevolution (Darwinism) is. From a re-examination of one fossil, scientists have come up with a new species of dinosaur!

Then they admit “these animals were evolving much earlier than the fossil record previously has indicated.” That should be worded “much earlier than our theory indicated.” Actually, they say it’s “five million years” older.

The Bible, for thousands of years, has indicated that “God made the wild animals according to their kinds… and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds.” (Genesis 1:25 NIV) While evolutionists are forced by their own scientific discoveries to continually revise their theory, the Bible record has been accurate since it was written thousands of years ago, with no need of revision. This is not surprising, since it was authored by “God, alone wise.” (Romans 16:27 NKJV)

The article can be read below. Here it is:

Fossil sheds light on ‘Jurassic Park’ dinosaurs

The fossil of a dinosaur that has been languishing in a museum for decades has been re-examined – and it turns out to be that of a new species.

Brachiosaurus, depicted in Jurassic Park, now has an early relative, providing clues to the evolution of some of the biggest creatures on Earth.

Scientists say the plant-eating dinosaur was longer than a double-decker bus and weighed 15,000kg.

Its remains were found in the 1930s in the Jura region of France.

Since then it has been somewhat over-looked, spending most of that time in storage crates in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Lead researcher Dr Philip Mannion of Imperial College London said the dinosaur would have eaten all kinds of vegetation, such as ferns and conifers, and lived at a time when Europe was a series of islands.

”We don’t know what this creature died from, but millions of years later it is providing important evidence to help us understand in more detail the evolution of brachiosaurid sauropods and a much bigger group of dinosaurs that they belonged to, called titanosauriforms,” he said.

Asteroid strike

Titanosauriforms were some of the largest creatures ever to have lived on land and were very diverse, surviving right up until the asteroid strike that wiped out most life on Earth.

The new species, given the scientific name, Vouivria damparisensis, lived in the Late Jurassic, some 160 million years ago.

“It’s the earliest member of a group that includes Brachiosaurus – one of the most famous dinosaurs we know – one of the prominent animals in Jurassic Park,” Dr Mannion told BBC News

“And it gives us a much clearer idea of what’s going on in the early evolution of this really important radiation of dinosaurs.”

Sauropods

The dinosaur is a sauropod – a sub-group of titanosauriforms, which include well-known groups such as Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus and Brontosaurus.

They had very long necks, long tails, and small heads with thick, pillar-like legs.

The fossil predates the previously oldest-known member of this group by about five million years.

“It starts to give us an idea that these animals were evolving much earlier than the fossil record previously has indicated,” Dr Mannion added.

“This pushes back a lot of origin times for a range of sauropod dinosaurs based on our understanding of how these different species related to one another.”

The re-classification of Vouivria as an early member of the titanosauriforms will help in mapping their spread across the Earth, from Jurassic times to the extinction of all dinosaurs.

It is thought that they were present across Europe, the US and Africa, but became extinct in Europe towards the end of their reign.

The fossil was discovered in the village of Damparis in the Jura region of eastern France in 1934.

It was documented scientifically in the 1940s, but has not been studied in detail since then.

Its scientific name, Vouivria damparisensis, relates to ‘La vouivre’, a local folklore legend about a winged serpent.

Dr Mannion examined the bones of the creature along with scientists at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and the CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The research is published in the journal, PeerJ.

FISH MUCH SMARTER THAN EVOLUTIONISTS FORMERLY BELIEVED

FISH MUCH SMARTER THAN EVOLUTIONISTS FORMERLY BELIEVED

fish
A blue tang (Paracanthurus hepatus) (Credit: Steven David Miller/naturepl.com)

“God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds”—Genesis 1:21 NIV

“God will always be true even if no human being can be relied on“—Romans 3:4 NJB

“The wisdom of the world is folly to God. As the scripture says: He traps the wise in the snare of their own cunning”—1 Corinthians 3:19 NJB

BBC News published an article on April 27, 2017, entitled: “Why Fish Do Not =&0=&.” As with so many other new discoveries, this one has forced evolutionists to revise their theories about fish. Let’s examine some quotes about fish from this article:
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Unknown ancient reptile roamed the Pyrenees mountains

Unknown ancient reptile roamed the Pyrenees mountains

Uknown ancient reptile
Artistic reconstruction of an archosauromorph

An “unknown ancient reptile roamed the Pyrenees mountains” according to a BBC News article published on April 20, 2017.

“The footprints of a mysterious reptile that lived about 250 million years ago have been identified in fossils from the Pyrenees mountains.”

“Footprints” have been found, now an entirely new species has been discovered? And it’s “a member of the group that gave rise to crocodiles and dinosaurs?”

All from “footprints?”

“Fools base their thoughts on foolish assumptions.” (Ecclesiastes 10:13 [a] NLT)

From footprints to an entire animal, replete with its history.

“So their conclusions will be… madness.” (Ecclesiastes 10:13 [b] NLT)

“He begins by talking nonsense…. A fool talks at great length.” (Ecclesiastes 10:13-14 REB)

Now they are searching for bones for this creature they’ve already constructed out of mere footprints.

“They chatter on and on.” (Ecclesiastes 10:14 [a] NLT)

“A fool talks at great length.” (Ecclesiastes 10:14 [b] NLT)

The article also notes that in the past, “a mass extinction devastated life on land and in the oceans. Some 90% of species disappeared. At that time the Earth was very different from today.”

Hello? – Flood of Noah’s day, possibly?

“For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.

Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. read more

Robber Fly – Highly Adapted or Designed?

Robber Fly – Highly Adapted or Designed?

The robber fly is a powerfully built, bristly fly with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name “robber fly” reflects its notoriously aggressive predatory habits; it feeds mainly or exclusively on other insects and as a rule it waits in ambush and catches its prey in flight.

A robber fly
The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies

A BBC News article published on March 9, 2017, entitled “Robber fly: Hunting secrets of a tiny predator revealed,” reports that the mid-air hunting strategy of the robber fly has been revealed by an international team of scientists.

Robber fly: Hunting secrets of a tiny predator revealed

The mid-air hunting strategy of a tiny fly the size of a grain of rice has been revealed by an international team of scientists.

Holcocephala, a species of robber fly, is able to intercept and “lock on” to its prey in less than a second.

Researchers used high-speed cameras to show exactly how the fly positioned itself to capture a moving target in mid-air.

The results are published in the journal Current Biology.

Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido from Cambridge University explained that, normally, “when we think of hunting animals we think of excellent vision and speed, but when you’re so very tiny, you have a very small brain and limited sensory capacity”.

She added: “We wanted to know how [this fly manages] this predatory behaviour.”

Dr Gonzalez-Bellido and her colleagues created a miniature outdoor studio – filming the fly from two angles to capture its movement in 3D.

They discovered that the fly maintained what they described as a “constant bearing angle” – keeping its prey in the centre of its field of vision.

PhD student Sam Fabian explained: “They’re not sticking to a trajectory; if the target changes direction, they compensate, so this is reactive.”

In doing this, the insects are essentially using a very old navigation rule employed by sailors, Dr Gonzalez-Bellido explained.

“If another vessel is not moving within your field of view, and it’s getting bigger and closer, you’re on a collision course,” she said.

The team also studied the fly’s eyes, revealing that part of its hunting secret was contained in

its highly adapted vision read more

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