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Ancient Mars Lake Could Have Supported Life, or Could It?

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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Ancient Mars Lake Could Have Supported Life, or Could It?

The Curiosity rover team made an announcement that they have discovered evidence of past fresh waster in Gale Crater. Now This data is not new because it has been available months and they seem to be ignoring an aspect of the data that goes against habitability at least long-term habitability.

Yes the clay found in the area indicates fresh water disposition but there is also enough the sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide indicated a past environment of about 3% sulfuric acid and a Ph of around 0.5. It seems that fresh water originally erupted from underground becoming acidic as a result of volcanic activity. The makes is a perfect fit to the Catastrophic Model of Martian geology.

Now there is no evidence of actual life and no evidence of organic compounds. They only found compounds that life could use if present. This suggests an over eagerness eager to find life on Mars such that any hint a possible habitable puddle of water gets them excited.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Human Chromosome 2 Fusion Theory Shown Wrong

http://tinyurl.com/GSM-Chromosome2

One of the latest big arguments for the claim man evolved from a common ancestor with apes is that the human chromosome 2 is a result of an end to end fusion from two chimp chromosomes 2a and 2b. For the record they were given these labels after the theory wad proposed as a way of giving support for the fusion theory. This theory was proposed as a way to explain the fact that apes have 48 humans 23 pairs of chromosomes while apes all have 24 pairs. While this theory rests on rather weak evidence to begin with in that if the DNA sequences were originally centromere, and telomere sites they would have to be more highly degraded that predictive for possible tine span.

One major problem with this claim is the fact that such a mutation would only occur in one individual at time and if it occurred it would probably render the person infertile with rest of his species and if he were lucky to find a mate with the same fused chromosome (highly improbable) then their offspring would have trouble finding compatible mates, making its survival let alone dominance highly improbable.

To make matters worst for the theory is that there are no identified cases telomere-to-telomere fusion in mammals since every chromosome fusions documented in living mammals involves satellite DNA and telomeres have end caps called the shelterin protein complex that prevent telomere-to-telomere fusion.

It gets even worse for the chromosome fusion do the lack of DNA sequence similarity between humans and chimps in the area around the alleged human chromosome 2 fusion site, including an unexplained lack of chimp DNA in the area. The alleged fusion site is surrounded by many functional genes and aleged pseudogenes not found in the ends of the ends of chimpanzee chromosomes 2A or 2B.

The final neal in the chromosome 2 fusion coffin is the fact that the alleged fusion site is actually location inside the DDX11L2 gene. This gene has three primary exons transcribed in the direction of telomere to centromere. It serves several regulatory functions making it a highly expressed and highly complicated gene and one not found in apes.

If the human chromosome 2 were indeed a result of an end to end fusion from two chimp chromosomes 2a and 2b were would expect to find the fusion site in fairly good shape and surrounded by DNA sequences highly similar between humans and chimps but we do not. We also find a unique highly functional gene going right across the alleged fusion site. Thus this so called evidence for a human-chimpanzee common ancestor and human evolution can be considered falsified, that is has been shown to be wrong.

Reference

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v6/n1/human-chromosome-fusion

------ Charles Creager Jr.

http://gscim.com/Science_News/10-13/Mars_update.html

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Relativity Basics

References

Basic Relativity

Introduction to Relativity

An Introduction to Relativity

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Mars Update

Two discoveries about this week have provided further support for the Catastrophic Model of Martian Geology. This helps show just how well the theory describes Martian. The Catastrophic Model of Martian Geology speaks of a planet wide Martian geological Catastrophe a few thousand years ago from about the the the Global Flood described in the Bible as happening on Earth.

The Mars rover Curiosity discovered that the regolith soil in Gale Crater contains about 2% water which would be consistent with the flooding event described by Catastrophic Model of Martian Geology for the crater. It all so contains higher percentages of chemicals that are poisonous or even potentially explosive such that it would not be safe to drink without considerable refinements, but the presence of the the water is consistent with a flooding evening within the last few thousand years.

Now while supervolcanoes were not original part of the Catastrophic Model of Martian Geology, the possibility of them they on Mars is consistent with it. The possibility has been suggested by the similarity between some Martian, and features on Earth thought to be supervolcanoes . While Catastrophic Model of Martian Geology was based on known large Martian volcanoes, the addition of supervolcanoes only adds to and inproves the model by have more sources of volcanic activity.

------ Charles Creager Jr.

Life Coming to Earth from Space

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Scientists claim to find life coming to Earth from space

A report from scientists at the University of Sheffield clams the discovery of microscopic life in the process coming to Earth from space. The "biological particles" that form the bases of this report were found in the stratosphere by a balloon. The reason why they concluded the particles come from space is that they are too big to have drifted up to such an altitude in the absence of volcanic activity.

One flaw in their conclusion is that there could be another mechanism by which these particles could have gotten that high. Another is that it is not even certain that they are biological in origin, scientists have been fooled before. However for the sake of argument lets assume that these particles are indeed life coming to Earth from space. There is a high probability that they are simply returning having been ejected in the past. In fact from a creation science perspective it is likely that microbes got ejected into space from the Earth during Noah's Flood.

------ Charles Creager Jr.

Life on Mars Refuted by the Rover Curiosity

Since landing on Mars the rover Curiosity has been test levels of methane in the Martian atmosphere looking for evidence of life. Evidence from Martian orbit had suggesting the presence of methane but Curiosity can not find it. This suggest that the previous evidence for methane was ether in error or the it was volcanic in origin and thus had been ejected into the upper Martian atmosphere. Methane is produced by microorganisms but if it were being produced by Martian microorganisms and Curiosity should have detect it and it has not, These results indicate that if methane is present at all that it is the upper Martian atmosphere making it more compatible with a volcanic origin than a biological one.

From a creation science perspective finding microorganisms on Mars would not be a problem, not only is native Martian microorganisms not a problem for Biblical creation but there are any number of ways that they could have migrated from Earth to Mars, including Earth meteorites and our own space probes. The main reason for wanting to find life on Mars is too support the idea of abiogenesis which can be shown to be a thermodynamic impossibility. The claim is often made that finding life on Mars would prove abiogenesis not only possible but likely, however the odds would be far greater that life from earth got to Mars. In fact even giving abiogenesis unreasonably generous odds of actually occurring indicates that we should be alone in the universe.

The results of evidence methane in the Martian atmosphere from orbit and not one the surface would be constant with recent volcanic activity on Mars which is a main point of Catastrophic Model of Martian Geology as such this result was actually predicted by the model. However it all but totally falsifies the Martian microorganism model.

------ Charles Creager Jr.