FASCINATIN & RHYTHM
Deuteronomy 6:5
"And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
The heart is an amazingly complex organ consisting of muscle tissue. And what do muscles do? They contract when stimulated by electric pulses. Though the human heart will beat 2-3 billion times in a person's lifetime, heart disease is one of the most common causes of death. That's why researchers have been looking for a way to produce artificial heart tissue. Have they finally succeeded?
Lei Yang and his team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh reported that they were able to transform human skin into lab-grown "heart muscle cells" that contracted spontaneously in a dish.
To accomplish this extraordinary feat, the researchers first changed skin cells into stem cells and then treated them with growth factors. Then they added the cells to the structural shell of a mouse heart that had been stripped of its own cells. The human cells transformed the shell into tissue that pulsed at 40 to 50 beats per minute.
Evolutionists, no doubt, will look at this achievement as making headway in man's quest to create artificial life. But let us remind them that the cells were produced using already-existing skin cells and growth factors. Besides, the "heart cells" were not a product of purposeless chance or mutations but the result of considerable effort by an intelligent team of scientists ... a reminder that life itself is the work of an intelligent, purposeful and all-wise Creator.
Father, I thank you for my heart that sustains my life by beating regularly for so many years. I praise You most of all for turning my heart of stone into a heart that loves You, both now and long after my physical heart has stopped beating. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Science News, Web Edition 8/15/13. J. Shugart, "Lab-grown heart has rhythm." Nature Communications 4, Article #2307. "Repopulation of decellularized mouse heart with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells." 8/13/13. Photo: The University of Pittsburgh is also where Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.
Deuteronomy 6:5
"And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might."
The heart is an amazingly complex organ consisting of muscle tissue. And what do muscles do? They contract when stimulated by electric pulses. Though the human heart will beat 2-3 billion times in a person's lifetime, heart disease is one of the most common causes of death. That's why researchers have been looking for a way to produce artificial heart tissue. Have they finally succeeded?
Lei Yang and his team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh reported that they were able to transform human skin into lab-grown "heart muscle cells" that contracted spontaneously in a dish.
To accomplish this extraordinary feat, the researchers first changed skin cells into stem cells and then treated them with growth factors. Then they added the cells to the structural shell of a mouse heart that had been stripped of its own cells. The human cells transformed the shell into tissue that pulsed at 40 to 50 beats per minute.
Evolutionists, no doubt, will look at this achievement as making headway in man's quest to create artificial life. But let us remind them that the cells were produced using already-existing skin cells and growth factors. Besides, the "heart cells" were not a product of purposeless chance or mutations but the result of considerable effort by an intelligent team of scientists ... a reminder that life itself is the work of an intelligent, purposeful and all-wise Creator.
Father, I thank you for my heart that sustains my life by beating regularly for so many years. I praise You most of all for turning my heart of stone into a heart that loves You, both now and long after my physical heart has stopped beating. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Science News, Web Edition 8/15/13. J. Shugart, "Lab-grown heart has rhythm." Nature Communications 4, Article #2307. "Repopulation of decellularized mouse heart with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells." 8/13/13. Photo: The University of Pittsburgh is also where Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.
DARWIN'S DILEMMA SOLVED?
Genesis 2:1
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."
Has Darwin's dilemma finally been solved? Darwin's dilemma has been vexing evolutionists for more than 150 years. Charles Darwin, you see, was unable to explain the sudden arrival in Cambrian rock of most of the phyla we have today when no fossil evidence of their ancestors can be found in pre-Cambrian rock.
Not surprisingly, creationists frequently mention Darwin's dilemma - another name for what is called the "Cambrian explosion" - when challenging the Darwinian view of the gradual origin of species. So evolutionists have been struggling to find a plausible answer.
Such an answer was recently proposed by researchers at South Australia's University of Adelaide. They try to get around the dilemma by estimating that the rate of evolution during the "Cambrian explosion" was five times faster than it is today.
The evolutionary website ScienceDaily states with great confidence, "The findings ... resolve 'Darwin's dilemma': the sudden appearance of a plethora of modern animal groups in the fossil record during the early Cambrian period."
Is the assertion that evolution happened five times faster than today really reasonable? No, it isn't. In fact, it only creates another dilemma for evolutionists who have always insisted on uniformitarianism - that the rates of natural processes do not change over time. Darwin's dilemma remains unsolved for evolutionists. But there is no dilemma at all for creationists who know that God created all living creatures on days five and six of Creation Week.
Lord Jesus, I ask you to open the eyes of evolutionary scientists who reject what the Bible so clearly teaches. At one time, I, too, was blind to the truth. Thank you for opening my own eyes. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Michael S.Y. Lee, Julien Soubrier, Gregory D. Edgecombe. "Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion", Current Biology, 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.055. "Darwin's dilemma resolved: Evolution's 'big bang' explained by five times faster rates of evolution", ScienceDaily, 9/12/13. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130912131753.htm. Photo: Marrella, the most abundant organism from the Burgess Shale Cambrian rock. Courtesy of Verisimilus. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
Genesis 2:1
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."
Has Darwin's dilemma finally been solved? Darwin's dilemma has been vexing evolutionists for more than 150 years. Charles Darwin, you see, was unable to explain the sudden arrival in Cambrian rock of most of the phyla we have today when no fossil evidence of their ancestors can be found in pre-Cambrian rock.
Not surprisingly, creationists frequently mention Darwin's dilemma - another name for what is called the "Cambrian explosion" - when challenging the Darwinian view of the gradual origin of species. So evolutionists have been struggling to find a plausible answer.
Such an answer was recently proposed by researchers at South Australia's University of Adelaide. They try to get around the dilemma by estimating that the rate of evolution during the "Cambrian explosion" was five times faster than it is today.
The evolutionary website ScienceDaily states with great confidence, "The findings ... resolve 'Darwin's dilemma': the sudden appearance of a plethora of modern animal groups in the fossil record during the early Cambrian period."
Is the assertion that evolution happened five times faster than today really reasonable? No, it isn't. In fact, it only creates another dilemma for evolutionists who have always insisted on uniformitarianism - that the rates of natural processes do not change over time. Darwin's dilemma remains unsolved for evolutionists. But there is no dilemma at all for creationists who know that God created all living creatures on days five and six of Creation Week.
Lord Jesus, I ask you to open the eyes of evolutionary scientists who reject what the Bible so clearly teaches. At one time, I, too, was blind to the truth. Thank you for opening my own eyes. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Michael S.Y. Lee, Julien Soubrier, Gregory D. Edgecombe. "Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion", Current Biology, 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.055. "Darwin's dilemma resolved: Evolution's 'big bang' explained by five times faster rates of evolution", ScienceDaily, 9/12/13. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130912131753.htm. Photo: Marrella, the most abundant organism from the Burgess Shale Cambrian rock. Courtesy of Verisimilus. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
DID COMETS HELP CREATE LIFE?
Psalm 147:16-17
"He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?"
Would you believe that life on planet Earth was the result of icy comets striking the Earth's surface long, long ago? We didn't think so. But a team of researchers from three distinguished institutions would disagree with you.
To understand the effect of a comet hitting a planet, the researchers fired ice projectiles through a high-speed gun at targets that were icy mixtures that they said had compounds similar to those found on comets. When the ice chips stopped flying, they discovered that the impacts had created some amino acids.
One researcher wrote that "this process demonstrates a very simple mechanism whereby we can go from a mix of simple molecules, such as water and carbon-dioxide ice, to a more complicated molecule, such as an amino acid. This," he wrote, "is the first step towards life. The next step is to work out how to go from an amino acid to even more complex molecules such as proteins."
Good luck with that! Scientists have been attempting to do that since 1953, when Stanley Miller and Harold Urey at the University of Chicago produced amino acids by shooting bolts of simulated lightning into a concoction of chemicals. Proteins - the real building blocks of life - are light-years away from amino acids.
How sad that scientists are wasting so much time looking for answers to how life began. If only they believed the Bible's account of origins, they could dedicate their skills to pursuing real scientific achievements that benefit mankind.
Heavenly Father, I ask You to lead more Christians into the sciences so that they can do research that honors You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3989/20130916/comets-hitting-planets-help-build-life-study-finds.htm. "Comets Hitting Planets May Help Build Life, Study Finds", Nature World News, 9/16/13. Illustration: Artist's conception of a storm of comets around a star near our own. Courtesy of NASA.
Psalm 147:16-17
"He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?"
Would you believe that life on planet Earth was the result of icy comets striking the Earth's surface long, long ago? We didn't think so. But a team of researchers from three distinguished institutions would disagree with you.
To understand the effect of a comet hitting a planet, the researchers fired ice projectiles through a high-speed gun at targets that were icy mixtures that they said had compounds similar to those found on comets. When the ice chips stopped flying, they discovered that the impacts had created some amino acids.
One researcher wrote that "this process demonstrates a very simple mechanism whereby we can go from a mix of simple molecules, such as water and carbon-dioxide ice, to a more complicated molecule, such as an amino acid. This," he wrote, "is the first step towards life. The next step is to work out how to go from an amino acid to even more complex molecules such as proteins."
Good luck with that! Scientists have been attempting to do that since 1953, when Stanley Miller and Harold Urey at the University of Chicago produced amino acids by shooting bolts of simulated lightning into a concoction of chemicals. Proteins - the real building blocks of life - are light-years away from amino acids.
How sad that scientists are wasting so much time looking for answers to how life began. If only they believed the Bible's account of origins, they could dedicate their skills to pursuing real scientific achievements that benefit mankind.
Heavenly Father, I ask You to lead more Christians into the sciences so that they can do research that honors You. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3989/20130916/comets-hitting-planets-help-build-life-study-finds.htm. "Comets Hitting Planets May Help Build Life, Study Finds", Nature World News, 9/16/13. Illustration: Artist's conception of a storm of comets around a star near our own. Courtesy of NASA.
NEW TYPE OF EYE DISCOVERED!
Psalm 119:18
"Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."
The University of Tübingen's Institute of Anatomy recently discovered a fish with what they called "a previously unknown type of eye." The glasshead barreleye has a cylindrical eye pointing upwards to see prey, predators and potential mates. But the eye also has a mirror-like second retina which is able to detect bioluminescent flashes created by deep-sea denizens to the sides and below, reports Professor Hans-Joachim Wagner.
Actually, it's not really a previously unknown type of eye. Reflector eyes are usually only found in invertebrates, such as mollusks and crustaceans, but there is one other vertebrate that also uses a combination of reflective and refractive lenses in its eyes - the deep-sea brownsnout spookfish.
Now this is where it really gets interesting. According to the report, both the glasshead barreleye and the brownsnout spookfish developed this amazingly complex eye from different kinds of tissue. So if you're going to believe in evolution, you'll have to deal with the fact that this unusual type of eye had to evolve twice, independently of one another, using two different solutions to the same problem.
Those of us who accept biblical creation as true often wonder at the blindness of evolutionary scientists. How can they continue to cling to mindless mutations and natural selection when only a supremely intelligent Creator could account for the incredibly complex eye of the glasshead barreleye?
Father, I thank You that You have given me eyes to see! Not only am I able to see the world around me more clearly, I am able to see - through the eyes of faith - the work that Your Son has done for me to secure eternal life.
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-fish-previously-unknown-eye.html. "Researchers discover fish with a previously unknown type of eye", Phys.Org 3/20/14. Photo: Glasshead barreleye close-up. Photographer unknown.
Psalm 119:18
"Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."
The University of Tübingen's Institute of Anatomy recently discovered a fish with what they called "a previously unknown type of eye." The glasshead barreleye has a cylindrical eye pointing upwards to see prey, predators and potential mates. But the eye also has a mirror-like second retina which is able to detect bioluminescent flashes created by deep-sea denizens to the sides and below, reports Professor Hans-Joachim Wagner.
Actually, it's not really a previously unknown type of eye. Reflector eyes are usually only found in invertebrates, such as mollusks and crustaceans, but there is one other vertebrate that also uses a combination of reflective and refractive lenses in its eyes - the deep-sea brownsnout spookfish.
Now this is where it really gets interesting. According to the report, both the glasshead barreleye and the brownsnout spookfish developed this amazingly complex eye from different kinds of tissue. So if you're going to believe in evolution, you'll have to deal with the fact that this unusual type of eye had to evolve twice, independently of one another, using two different solutions to the same problem.
Those of us who accept biblical creation as true often wonder at the blindness of evolutionary scientists. How can they continue to cling to mindless mutations and natural selection when only a supremely intelligent Creator could account for the incredibly complex eye of the glasshead barreleye?
Father, I thank You that You have given me eyes to see! Not only am I able to see the world around me more clearly, I am able to see - through the eyes of faith - the work that Your Son has done for me to secure eternal life.
http://phys.org/news/2014-03-fish-previously-unknown-eye.html. "Researchers discover fish with a previously unknown type of eye", Phys.Org 3/20/14. Photo: Glasshead barreleye close-up. Photographer unknown.
THE STRONGEST MATERIAL IN THE WORLD
Job 40:18
"His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron."
Graphene may be the most unusual material that will ever be discovered. It has already revolutionized the world of physics and won the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for physicist Andre Geim and his colleague, Kostya Novoselow.
What's so unusual about graphene? Geim told CNN Tech, "It's the thinnest material you can get - it's only one atom thick. It's the strongest material we are aware of because you can't slice it any further. You can't get any material that is thinner than one atom, or it wouldn't count as a material anymore."
Geim went on to say, "Graphene is stronger than diamond; it shows extraordinary heat conductance; it conducts electricity a thousand times better than copper - the list goes on. Another surprise is that you can just about see it with the naked eye, even though it's only one atom thick!"
Geim added, "We live in a 3-dimensional world. My physics intuition, developed over the last thirty years, told me that this material shouldn't exist. And if you had asked 99.9% of scientists around the world, they would have said the idea of a 2D material was rubbish and that graphene shouldn't exist."
How true that is! Scientists have been mistaken about a number of things, even when 99.9% of them were in agreement. Vestigial organs in humans, for example. Cosmic ether, for another. Then there's the fire-like element called phlogiston and the mistaken notion of epicycles. But the biggest mistake that scientists continue to make is evolution.
Heavenly Father, let me never compromise with the world when I'm told that Your Word is untrue. If I am to be ridiculed or persecuted for following You, let me be willing to be thought a fool for Christ's sake. Amen.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/tech/innovation/graphene-quest-for-first-ever-2d-material/. Photo: Graphene is an atom-thick lattice of carbon atoms. Courtesy of AlexanderAlUS. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Job 40:18
"His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron."
Graphene may be the most unusual material that will ever be discovered. It has already revolutionized the world of physics and won the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for physicist Andre Geim and his colleague, Kostya Novoselow.
What's so unusual about graphene? Geim told CNN Tech, "It's the thinnest material you can get - it's only one atom thick. It's the strongest material we are aware of because you can't slice it any further. You can't get any material that is thinner than one atom, or it wouldn't count as a material anymore."
Geim went on to say, "Graphene is stronger than diamond; it shows extraordinary heat conductance; it conducts electricity a thousand times better than copper - the list goes on. Another surprise is that you can just about see it with the naked eye, even though it's only one atom thick!"
Geim added, "We live in a 3-dimensional world. My physics intuition, developed over the last thirty years, told me that this material shouldn't exist. And if you had asked 99.9% of scientists around the world, they would have said the idea of a 2D material was rubbish and that graphene shouldn't exist."
How true that is! Scientists have been mistaken about a number of things, even when 99.9% of them were in agreement. Vestigial organs in humans, for example. Cosmic ether, for another. Then there's the fire-like element called phlogiston and the mistaken notion of epicycles. But the biggest mistake that scientists continue to make is evolution.
Heavenly Father, let me never compromise with the world when I'm told that Your Word is untrue. If I am to be ridiculed or persecuted for following You, let me be willing to be thought a fool for Christ's sake. Amen.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/tech/innovation/graphene-quest-for-first-ever-2d-material/. Photo: Graphene is an atom-thick lattice of carbon atoms. Courtesy of AlexanderAlUS. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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