Category: Evolution Creation

Origin of the Laws and Constants in the Universe

Laws and Constants

“The parameters that the Large Hadron Collider is set in, is based on all the laws and constants of the universe already established. Therefore, their test could suggest that all the laws and constants in the universe were created at an instance—such as creation—or eternally existed. This excludes that all the laws and constants in the universe evolved over time.

Just as the Bible describes that God begot man and life begot life, life didn’t come from nonliving material. The same is true with energy and matter and all the laws of the universe. The logic from reading the verses is that “light begot light” and “energy begot energy.” When God created all the laws of the universe and all matter and energy within the universe, He did so from Himself by speaking them into existence as the Holy Spirit moved violently. Therefore, just like man was created from God, so to was all matter and energy; all the laws of the universe were created from the essence of God. This is summed up in 1 Corinthians 11:12 “all things originate/are from God,” and Colossians 1:16–17: “All things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” All the laws in physics, chemistry, cosmology, biology, mathematics, and so forth were brought forth on the first day from God and through God. Since these laws are based on God’s knowledge, and since God doesn’t increase in knowledge, then it seems that all these laws have existed eternally because of God’s omniscience. Therefore, He brought to our realm and our dimension all the laws and constants of the universe on the first day of creation.” ~Origins, The Origin of Matter, Space, Time, and Life. Page 306.

Something to ponder when you read that a scientist has discovered a law or constant in the universe.

Hadron Collider

There are no mechanisms for macroevolution

Epigenetic markers strongly affect binding of transcription factors

Epigenetic Marks Shun Some Transcription Factors, Embrace Others

Excerpt: “The same epigenetic marks can be read as “keep off” or “welcome,” depending on what DNA-binding protein, or transcription factor, is doing the reading. These marks, methylated cytosine and guanine dinucleotides (mCpGs), normally indicate which portions of the genome are inactive. But new findings from a systematic study of hundreds of transcription factors suggest that mCpGs may play a more subtle role in gene regulation.

In this new study, scientists based at Karolinska Institutet systematically analyzed the binding specificities of transcription factors to DNA that was marked by mCpGs, as well as to DNA that was unmarked by mCpGs. The observed that mCpGs can influence binding of most transcription factors to DNA—in some cases negatively and in others positively.

Interestingly, many of the transcription factors that prefer to bind to mCpG sites appear to be important to development. This finding may inform future analyses of the role of DNA methylation on cell differentiation, chromatin reprogramming, and transcriptional regulation.

The results pave the way for cracking the genetic code that controls the expression of genes, and will have broad implications for the understanding of development and disease. The availability of genomic information relevant to disease is expanding at an exponentially increasing rate.

“This study identifies how the modification of the DNA structure affects the binding of transcription factors, and this increases our understanding of how genes are regulated in cells and further aids us in deciphering the grammar written into DNA,” noted Professor Taipale.””

Excerpt from the original study:

“One shortcoming is the lack of knowledge about DNA binding specificities (motifs) for hundreds of the estimated ~1600 human transcription factors. Another is how transcription factor binding is modulated by “epigenetics”—a contentious term that refers to heritable states of both cells and organisms, as well as the covalent chemical modifications of DNA and protein that often provide the underlying mechanism. DNA methylation at cytosine and guanine dinucleotides (mCG) satisfies most views of epigenetics, as it is inherited across cell divisions and functions in imprinting (parent-of-origin–dependent gene expression). On page 502 of this issue, Yin et al. provide a comprehensive look at the extent to which human transcription factor binding is affected by mCG, and make a striking finding: Many homeodomain transcription factors—perhaps the best characterized developmental regulators in biology can bind to specific methylated DNA sequences.

More generally, the study of Yin et al. contributes a unique perspective to evaluating how transcription factors bind DNA. Transcription factor motif modeling is critical for the study of global gene regulation, allowing us to predict potential binding sites in the genome. Given that so many transcription factors are affected by chemical modifications to DNA, we are now faced with a clear necessity to incorporate DNA methylation into motif models, and a new type of data from which to learn to read the genome the way transcription factors do.”

My comment: This study confirms my previous claims about factors affecting phenotypes of organisms and observed changes in nature. Alterations in organisms are based on epigenetic factors and designed mechanisms mediated by nutrition, stress, climate and other environmental factors. Even one addition or deletion of one methyl group on a gene might have a significant influence on cell activity and identity. Random mutations or natural selection have no role in biodiversity. There are no mechanisms for large scale evolution. Everything points to God’s design and creation.

The End Product of Evolution by Bill Nye

The End Product of Evolution by Bill Nye

This video speaks for itself of the dangers of drifting away from the Bible, and the first step away starts with rejecting the literal-grammatical history of Genesis creation and global flood.

Why is it important to interpret the Scriptures correctly “In the beginning” and not use an arbitrary method of jumping into reading the Bible as literal history after creation and the global flood? Well, look at your evolutionary bedfellows and see how far removed from God your ilk has become. Yes, theistic evolutionists, these are the ones linking arms with you that chant, “the Bible is wrong, we evolved over hundreds-of-millions-of-years.

Many will be deceived, and will cry out to the Lord, ‘but Lord, we drank communion in your name and broke bread in your name,’ and God will say, “depart from Me for I never knew you.”

Think of all the children that have been indoctrinated by theists about the myth of evolution and are now bearing the fruit of this myth by rejecting God. For shame to those many adults who have indoctrinated a generation away from the truth of Scripture, and filled their minds with the myth of evolution.

Nothing can save this perverse generation but divine intervention. God help them.
“As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so will it be when the Son of man returns.”
As it was in the days of Noah, with the transitory gender called the Nephilim, so will it be when the Son of man returns.

https://youtu.be/46h-LfNWPn8

Genetically identical twins – but not so identical traits

Genetically identical twins – but not so identical traits

Identical twins with different skin, hair and eye colors – Gene sequences don’t determine traits

Excerpt: “Two baby girls from County Durham are thought to be the first genetically identical twins in the UK to be born with different eye and skin colour.

Before their birth, placental sampling had shown the twins were monozygotic – they had developed from the same fertilised egg and share the same DNA sequence.
‘Alternatively, sometimes markers on the DNA which influence the extent to which the DNA is expressed can be different in the twins. We do have some evidence that skin colour is subject to this kind of “epigenetic'” control,’ Dr Steves added.”

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170419121955.htm#.WPiYgwpqTIg.linkedin
(April 19, 2017)

Excerpt: “Although identical twins have the same genes as each other, their epigenomes — the collection of methyl marks studding their DNA — are different by the time they reach adulthood due in part to environmental factors. Reprogramming the skin cells of adult identical twins to their embryonic state eliminated most of these differences, the researchers found when they studied cells from three sets of twins. However, there were still key epigenetic differences between twins in terms of how the iPSCs compared to ESCs.

“In the past, researchers had found lots of sites with variations in methylation status, but it was hard to figure out which of those sites had variation due to genetics,” says Panopoulos. “Here, we could focus more specifically on the sites we know have nothing to do with genetics.” That new focus, she says, is what allowed them to home in on the MYC binding sites.”

My comment: Human skin, hair or eye colors are not determined by gene sequences. Instead, traits are determined by epigenetic control of gene expression. Some of the epigenetic markers can be very stable. Histone methylation marks can be passed on for at least 14 generations according to a new study:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170420141753.htm#.WPnaAiBOiGs.twitter

These findings destroy pseudoscientific claims about mutations made by population genetics. There is no such a thing as a human race. We are all the same, human beings, created by God.

Scientists should place these facts in the context of ecological adaptation and variation within kinds. There are no mechanisms for large scale evolution. Don’t get lost.

The existing species concept called into question

The existing species concept called into question

Bears breed across species borders – ‘Species’ is a man made word

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170419093151.htm#.WPikcs4L-8M.linkedin

Excerpt: “Pizzly, grolars or “capuccino bears” are common names of the offspring resulting from the mating of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) and polar bears (Ursus maritimus). “Such hybrids among bears are not as rare as we have hitherto assumed,” says Prof. Dr. Axel Janke of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt. In a large-scale analysis, a team of scientists led by the German evolutionary geneticist has sequenced six complete bear genomes. Each genome is about 2.5 billion base pairs large. “With these new data of the sun bear, sloth bear, Asiatic black bear and spectacled bear, we now have the genomes of all known bear species,” adds Janke.

It has previously been assumed that the number of hybrids between polar and brown bears is increasing due to climate change, because brown bears invade northern regions and polar bears move onto the sea ice later than usual. The new results show however that an abundant flow of genes among different bear species occurred to a good deal in the past. Hybrids are thus not necessarily linked to climate change. “Bears can form hybrids in different combinations,” explains Janke, and adds: “We knew this from zoos. In the wild, so far this was only observed for polar bears and brown bear as well as Asiatic black and sun bear.”

The new genomic data also show that there must have even been gene flow between the polar and sun bears. However, the two species live in geographically completely distinct areas and thus have never met.

The detected gene flow among bears also questions the basic biological concept of a species. The biological species definition assumes that different species cannot produce offspring in the wild or that hybrid offspring are sterile. The best-known example of this is the mule — a hybrid between a horse and a donkey. However, it has been observed that grolars, the hybrids between polar and grizzly bears, are often fertile. Janke: “We have to ask ourselves: Does the species concept still hold true, given there is evidence of gene flow not only in bears, but also in other animals?”

My comment: Why are they surprised after observing Bear variation which is based on epigenetic control of gene expression? Bears are just adapted to different environments, different diet and climate and that’s why they look a bit different. But actually they are the same kind. That’s why they are able to breed and get fertile offspring.

‘Species’ is a pseudoscientific term used for maintaining evolutionary illusions. Adaptation to different diets and climate leads to loss of biological information due to genetic mutations. An intensive loss of information might cause even chromosome loss and this can affect the mating willingness and even cause chromosomal barriers for breeding. Different looking bears are not willing to mate in the wild due to control of pheromones but in captivity we can observe interesting cases of hybridization. For example, the Red Muntjac has the lowest diploid chromosomal number in mammals (2n = 6 for females and 7 for males) whereas Reeves’ Muntjac has 2n = 46. But still these two species can produce viable F1 hybrids in captivity.

Everything points to Biblical creation and rapid variation of kinds. Don’t get misled.

Seven things Darwin didn’t tell you

Seven things Darwin didn’t tell you, because he didn’t know.

1. Alterations in diet, climate, stress and other environmental factors cause mechanism based inheritable changes in organisms, not random mutations and selection.

An example: Italian wall lizards experienced radical changes in morphology and behavior after changing their diet from insects to plants. This occurred very rapidly, just in three decades. They even had a ‘new’ structure in their gut, so called Cecal Valve. Genes that control growth of the Cecal Valve were differently expressed due to the changed diet.

2. Random mutations don’t enhance the genomic information. Random mutations are genetic errors and they destroy biological information and disrupt genetic integrity.

An example: There are about 200,000 disease-causing genetic mutations in the human DNA pointing out that evolution is not happening and that so called natural selection is not able to weed those mutations out.
3. Most of so-called mutations are not random changes. Genetic changes occur due to oxidative stress, changing diet, exposure to toxins, disrupted methylation patterns, viruses etc. However, most of them still disrupt genetic integrity.
Examples:
– A lack of methyl groups in gene body may develop cancer and trigger genetic mutations.
– Viruses play a potential role in causing aberrant methylation patterns. According to a fresh study, more than 1 in 5 adults has cancer-causing HPV infection.
4. Biological information is multi-layered. There are at least three forms of biological information in the cell:
1. Gene sequences – Digital information layer
2. Epigenetic markers, 3D genome, flanking binding sites – Analog information layer
3. Gene regulatory networks, genomic integrity and stability – Meta data
Examples:
– The cell uses cytokines as knobs instead of switches.
– DNA methylation influences continuous variation in ant worker size
5. Biological information is extremely complex. The ‘grammar’ of the human genetic code is more complex than that of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world.
6. Organisms can experience rapid variation due to epigenetic mechanisms.
7. Life is not driven by gene sequences. Genes are driven by lifestyle.
That’s why Intelligent Design and Creation. Don’t get lost.

Trust in GOD

We live in a time that is filled with unrest, especially in the Middle East. Even non-believers wonder what is happening. As always, Scripture can answer this question.
God’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 15, of descendants as numerous as the stars, was extraordinary considering the age of Abraham and Sarah. The elderly couple, tired of waiting on God, decided to help the plan along (Gen 16). This impatience caused them to use the Egyptian servant, Hagar, as a surrogate. Abraham conceived a son with Hagar, named Ishmael. This was not the son of promise.
After Abraham and Sarah had Isaac, contention arose between Hagar and Sarah, regarding Ishmael and Isaac, as to the question of the blessing and covenant of the firstborn of Abraham. Who would be the child of promise? As a result, Hagar and Ishmael were sent away, settling in the wilderness of Paran.
Ishmael returned as Abraham was nearing death. He received a blessing from Abraham which was prophetic. Genesis 16 tells us that Ishmael will be a wild donkey of a man, against everyone and everyone against him. This was fulfilled, but there is another piece of the puzzle.
Another dispute arose when Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew. Their mother, Rebekah, and Jacob then conspired to steal Esau’s blessing , fooling Isaac in the process. As a result, a bitter Esau moved away and married the daughter of Ishmael, His half uncle. This is a double whammy of bitterness and resentment toward Abraham and his descendants. Both Ishmael and Esau had a problem with the Hebrews. Ishmael did father 12 tribes who became the Arabs. See Genesis 28:8-9.
The prophecy of Ishmael, a wild donkey of a man, his hand against his brothers, and everyone against Ishmael, is an ongoing prophecy which we see today.
Now, in 2017, we see the fruit of trying to interfere in GOD’s promises. The Arab nations are on fire. They can’t get along with each other. Nor do they get along with Jews and Christians. For sure there are some who do try and assimilate and join with others in friendship. But those aren’t the ones driving the prophetic timeline forward. It’s Ishmael and Esau’s grudge in the 21st century.

How millions of years changed to thousands

How to make a cave fish in just a few thousand years

Excerpt: “How long does it take for a cave fish to evolve from an open-water swimmer? Only a few thousand years, according to a new study. Scientists used to think that ice age glaciers covering northern Europe had prevented fish from colonizing the continents’ caves. Such species were thought to live no farther north than Pennsylvania’s Nippenose Valley. But a new cave-dwelling fish discovered in southern Germany 2 years ago is turning that assumption on its head. The pale, tiny fish with long, whiskerlike barbs sprouting from its head (above) is a new species of loach, as yet unnamed. It’s also the first cave fish to be found in Europe, 760 kilometers farther north than those in Pennsylvania.

Until 12,000 years ago, Europe and its caves were buried beneath glacial ice, which blocked any connection between above- and underground waterways. But as the glaciers retreated, sinkholes and springs formed around Germany’s upper Danube, connecting the river to extensive caves and streams 250 kilometers below. Some fish made their way in, becoming smaller, with pale scaleless bodies, large nostrils, and tiny eyes—all adaptations for living in the dark, the scientists report in today’s issue of Current Biology. Based on their genetic analysis, the scientists say the cave loach is a close relative of the darkly mottled stone loach, which is twice the size of the cave fish, and still swims in the sunny, open waters of the Danube River.”

My comment: Previous pseudoscientific studies claimed that the blind cave fish gradually experienced mutations during millions of years and that natural selection helped the fish to evolve and adapt to dark, lightless environment. Incredible nonsense! How many ‘scientific’ studies were made using this claim as a starting point? And people believed in them! Of course, because science, the god of wisdom, so claimed. How sad.

Modern scientists already understand that adaptation for living in the dark doesn’t take even thousands of years. Instead, it can happen just in tens of generations. And not a single gene sequence alteration is needed for this clever adaptation procedure. How is it done?

There are opsins, light-sensitive proteins in fish skin, eyes and brain. Information of light level is transmitted into neurons in the brain and based on this, certain genes are regulated by epigenetic mechanisms. The necessary information for embryonic gene regulation is transmitted by microRNAs. By this clever, designed mechanism, the blind cave fish is able to rapidly activate it’s eyes after returning into normal environment. It takes only a few generations.

Random mutations or natural selection has no role within these designed mechanisms. Everything points to God’s creation and Intelligent Design. Don’t get lost.

The amazing diversity, beauty, and enigmatic genome of Diatoms

The amazing diversity, beauty, and enigmatic genome of Diatoms

http://reasonandscience.heavenforum.org/t2466-the-amazing-diversity-beauty-and-enigmatic-genome-of-diatoms

Diatoms are one of the most important lifeforms on the planet. Plankton are responsible for 50% of earth’s oxygen. They have a very efficient way to dissipate excess solar energy, known as non-photochemical quenching. The real distinguishing feature of the diatoms is their shells. The valves are heavily embedded with silica (up to 71%). This glass-like wall reflects light creating intricate patterns that are striking and beautiful.

Chris Bowler from the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Paris thinks this clash of concepts just represents our anthropocentric and simplistic world view. “While we might want to call diatoms ‘plantimals,’ these things are much more complex than we think,” he says.

Diatoms have a sophisticated calcium and nitric oxide-based surveillance system for monitoring environmental stresses that can detect the release of aldehydes by its wounded neighbours. 18 Diatoms appear to have a highly mosaic genome, with genes originating from many different sources. Most notably, a large fraction of the genes may have been acquired by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from bacteria. Although genomic data have shown that HGT — the swapping of genes between species that don’t reproduce with one another — is much more common in eukaryotes than once thought, gene transfer between such distant relatives (diatoms and bacteria last shared a common ancestor a few billion years ago) is rare.

Unless there was no common ancestor of the two.

Researchers at University of Gothenburg have found diatom spores buried in seafloor sediments that were able to revive after more than 100 years in a state of suspended animation.

Diatoms detect and respond to physicochemical changes in their environment using sophisticated perception systems.

At the end of a diatom bloom, massive cell loss usually occurs. In addition to sedimentation and grazing by herbivores, programmed cell death (PCD) of stressed cells is also considered one of the major causes for the decline of algal blooms. 8 The process of PCD executed by a superfamily of cysteine aspartate-specific proteinases (caspases) is a conserved mechanism of cell suicide.

Caspases are the principal proteases that are activated during animal apoptosis and mediate cleavage of a variety of proteins ultimately leading to cell disintegration 6 Caspases have undergone remarkable proliferation and specialization in vertebrates, in which they function in a cascade including several cleavage events. Structural comparisons showed that caspases belong to a distinct class of cysteine proteases, which also includes hemoglobinases, gingipains and clostripains (hereinafter CHF-class, after Caspase-Hemoglobinase Fold). Recent studies that involved a combination of in-depth sequence analysis, structural analysis and direct experiments revealed a substantially greater diversity of caspase-related proteases than previously suspected. In particular, two families of predicted CHF-proteases that are more closely related to the classic caspases than to other proteases of this class, designated paracaspases and metacaspases, were identified

If Darwins survival of the fittest is the goal of evolution, cell suicide is counter-intuitive, and it would make no sense for cells to emerge with proteins specifically with the function to trigger suicide.
If caspases are evolutionarily conserved, it means there was no evolution, but stasis. Conservation is not evolution. its actually the oposit of evolution. Its common parlance that evoution is inserted even where it does not belong. Caspases have to emerge fully setup and functional. (Undoubtedly, similar mechanisms go back even further; scientists just happened to study this mechanism in a favorite lab worm, C. elegans.) There are at least seven genes involved in apoptosis. Failure of apoptotis has serious consequences for inflammation and autoimmunity.

By Otangelo Grasso

Homo naledi

Homo naledi

“The latest alleged transitional fossil is the discovery of Homo naledi in a South African cave. By now you should know that every creature in the fossil record is of a creature that was once larger and had to adapt to environmental changes resulting from the Flood. The Flood formed the oceans, which limits vegetation, which decreased O2 concentration, and the Flood decreased the buoyant force, which increased gravity, and all life lived shorter life spans and became smaller over time. And this includes humans. Therefore, Homo naledi is a larger fossil of a smaller primate today, and not a smaller transitional fossil of the much larger human. Unfortunately, every evolutionists is blocked from accepting the logic because of their preconceived ideology that the Bible is wrong and we came from the created, rather than the Creator.
Homo naledi
The cranial volume of Homo naledi (~500 cc = Cubic Centimeter) is close to the cranial capacity of the Bonobo (350 cc) and chimpanzee (400 cc) primates, but only ~40% of the cranial volume of humans (~1260 cc in men and 1130 cc in women). Since we know that life had to adapt to a reduction of O2 concentration in the atmosphere resulting from the Flood’s formation of the oceans, then the best interpretation of “Transitional” skull fossils is that they are transitional from the larger primates in the fossil record to a smaller primate today, and not a transitional fossil to the larger human kind.”

Page 189, Origins, The Origin of Matter, Space, Time, and Life.

 

Evolution is a myth at best (2 Timothy 4:3-4), and a doctrine of demons at worst (1 Timothy 4:1). Either way, do not fall for their pseudo-science that is only an opinion by evolutionary scientists. If you fall for their false doctrine, you will most likely give up on God, be very weak spiritually, or lead others astray. Do not think that you can take the fire of evolution into your bosom and not be burned.