[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Get a load of THIS latest secular science blasphemy

Humans Had Sex Regularly With Mysterious Extinct Relatives in Africa

Our species may have bred with a now extinct lineage of humanity before leaving Africa, scientists say.

Although we modern humans are now the only surviving lineage of humanity, others once roamed the Earth, making their way out of Africa before our species did, including the familiar Neanderthals in West Asia and Europe and the newfound Denisovans in East Asia. Genetic analysis of fossils of these extinct lineages has revealed they once interbred with modern humans, unions that may have endowed our lineage with mutations that protected them as we began expanding across the world about 65,000 yeas ago.

Now researchers analyzing the human genome find evidence that our species hybridized with a hitherto unknown human lineage even before leaving Africa, with approximately 2 percent of contemporary African DNA perhaps coming from this lineage. In comparison, recent estimates suggest that Neanderthal DNA makes up 1 percent to 4 percent of modern Eurasian genomes and Denisovan DNA makes up 4 percent to 6 percent of modern Melanesian genomes. [Neanderthals Had Sex With Humans]

These secular scienticians just crack me up. What's next? Humans mating with rocks?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Now the scienticians want us to believe that a fossil of bacteria is 3.4 billion years old.

Oldest Fossils On Earth Discovered

Earth's oldest fossils have been found in Australia by a team from the University of Western Australia and Oxford University. The microscopic fossils show convincing evidence for cells and bacteria living in an oxygen-free world over 3.4 billion years ago.

The team, led by Dr David Wacey of the University of Western Australia and including Professor Martin Brasier of Oxford University, report the finding in the journal Nature Geoscience.

'At last we have good solid evidence for life over 3.4 billion years ago. It confirms there were bacteria at this time, living without oxygen,' says Professor Brasier of the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford.

Earth was still a hot, violent place at this time, with volcanic activity dominating the early Earth. The sky was cloudy and grey, keeping the heat in despite the sun being weaker than today. The water temperature of the oceans was much higher at 40-50 degrees -- the temperature of a hot bath -- and circulating currents were very strong. Any land masses were small, or about the size of Caribbean islands, and the tidal range was huge.

Significantly, there was very little oxygen present as there were no plants or algae yet to photosynthesise and produce oxygen. The new evidence points to early life being sulfur-based, living off and metabolizing compounds containing sulfur rather than oxygen for energy and growth.

'Such bacteria are still common today. sulfur bacteria are found in smelly ditches, soil, hot springs, hydrothermal vents -- anywhere where there's little free oxygen and they can live off organic matter,' explains Professor Brasier.

The microfossils were found in a remote part of Western Australia called Strelley Pool. They are very well preserved between the quartz sand grains of the oldest beach or shoreline known on Earth, in some of the oldest sedimentary rocks that can be found anywhere.

'We can be very sure about the age as the rocks were formed between two volcanic successions that narrow the possible age down to a few tens of millions of years,' says Professor Brasier. 'That's very accurate indeed when the rocks are 3.4 billion years old.'

The microfossils satisfy three crucial tests that the forms seen in the rocks are biological and have not occurred through some mineralization process.

The fossils are very clearly preserved showing precise cell-like structures all of a similar size. They look like well known but much newer microfossils from 2 billion years ago, and are not odd or strained in shape.

The fossils suggest biological-like behavior. The cells are clustered in groups, are only present in appropriate habitats and are found attached to sand grains.

And crucially, they show biological metabolisms. The chemical make-up of the tiny fossilized structures is right, and crystals of pyrite (fool's gold) associated with the microfossils are very likely to be by-products of the sulfur metabolism of these ancient cells and bacteria.

Early fossils of life on Earth has been a controversial area. In the past decade, the barriers that need to be overcome before claiming such evidence have been raised significantly, aided by new techniques for mapping the chemistry of rocks at fine scales.

In 2002, the same Oxford group suggested well-known microfossils from the Apex chert in Australia were not the preserved forms of ancient bacteria after all. They argued that the context, shape and mineralogy of the forms were all wrong for them to be of biological origin.

They believe the current fossils, found just 20 miles away, satisfy all criteria for judging such finds.

The researchers are now using the techniques and approaches they used in this study to re-examine other fossil finds that have been proposed to contain evidence for life on Earth at these extremely early times.

'We're now making detailed comparisons with all other early microfossils, and we're very optimistic for future finds,' says Professor Brasier.

The work also has implications for looking for life on other planets, giving an indication of what evidence for such life might look like.

Should there be life elsewhere in our solar system -- on Mars or on the moons of Titan or Europa -- it is likely to be similar sorts of bacteria and cells living in similar environments. So any fossils in rocks from these planets and moons ought to look like these Australian microfossils and pass the same evidence tests.

'Could these sorts of things exist on Mars? It's just about conceivable,' says Professor Brasier. 'But it would need these approaches -- mapping the chemistry of any microfossils in fine detail and convincing three-dimensional images -- to support any evidence for life on Mars.'

Blah, blah, blah. What a bunch of malarkey! Any idiot knows that the earth is no more than 10,000 years old.

[Pastor Ed Lowman]

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Now the scienticians want us to believe that a fossil of bacteria is 3.4 billion years old.


Blah, blah, blah. What a bunch of malarkey! Any idiot knows that the earth is no more than 10,000 years old.

Of course! And if this theory of evolution were true, why would the bacteria still be "around today," as the article says?? Wouldn't they have evolved into aliens with spaceships and have flown off long ago? Certainly they would have, which is yet another piece of confirmation of the Bible's view of our origins.

[Adam Fag]

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Of course! And if this theory of evolution were true, why would the bacteria still be "around today," as the article says?? Wouldn't they have evolved into aliens with spaceships and have flown off long ago? Certainly they would have, which is yet another piece of confirmation of the Bible's view of our origins.

They're "still" here due to the fact they don't use sex to breed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY9DNWcqxI4
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[Redeemed Papist]

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They're "still" here due to the fact they don't use sex to breed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY9DNWcqxI4
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God didn't use sex to breed either. Are you saying God is a bacteria? It wouldn't surprise me if you were. Stop hitting yourself on the head with boomerangs and get with Jesus.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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HERE's a good one: The secular scienticians are now claiming....get ready for it...that the universe is made out of raspberries and rum!

Galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum, say astronomers

The hunt for chemicals in deep space that could seed life on other planets has yielded a large, fruity molecule

Astronomers searching for the building blocks of life in a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have concluded that it would taste vaguely of raspberries.

The unanticipated discovery follows years of work by astronomers who trained their 30m radio telescope on the enormous ball of dust and gas in the hope of spotting complex molecules that are vital for life.

Finding amino acids in interstellar space is a Holy Grail for astrobiologists, as this would raise the possibility of life emerging on other planets after being seeded with the molecules.

In the latest survey, astronomers sifted through thousands of signals from Sagittarius B2, a vast dust cloud at the centre of our galaxy. While they failed to find evidence for amino acids, they did find a substance called ethyl formate, the chemical responsible for the flavour of raspberries.

"It does happen to give raspberries their flavour, but there are many other molecules that are needed to make space raspberries," Arnaud Belloche, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, told the Guardian.

Curiously, ethyl formate has another distinguishing characteristic: it also smells of rum.

The astronomers used the IRAM telescope in Spain to analyse electromagnetic radiation emitted by a hot and dense region of Sagittarius B2 that surrounds a newborn star.

Radiation from the star is absorbed by molecules floating around in the gas cloud, which is then re-emitted at different energies depending on the type of molecule.

While scouring their data, the team also found evidence for the lethal chemical propyl cyanide in the same cloud. The two molecules are the largest yet discovered in deep space.

Dr Belloche and his colleague Robin Garrod at Cornell University in New York have collected nearly 4,000 distinct signals from the cloud but have only analysed around half of these.

"So far we have identified around 50 molecules in our survey, and two of those had not been seen before," said Belloche.

The results are being presented today at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science at the University of Hertfordshire.

Last year, the team came tantalisingly close to finding amino acids in space with the discovery of a molecule that can be used to make them, called amino acetonitrile.

The latest discoveries have boosted the researchers' morale because the molecules are as large as the simplest amino acid, glycine. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and are widely seen as being critical for complex life to exist anywhere in the universe.

"I wouldn't be surprised if we find an amino acid out there in the coming years," said Belloche.

Previously, astronomers have detected a variety of large molecules, including alcohols, acids and chemicals called aldehydes.

"The difficulty in searching for complex molecules is that the best astronomical sources contain so many different molecules that their 'fingerprints' overlap and are difficult to disentangle," Belloche said.

The molecules are thought to form when chemicals that already exist on some dust grains, such as ethanol, link together to make more complex chains.

"There is no apparent limit to the size of molecules that can be formed by this process, so there's good reason to expect even more complex organic molecules to be there," said Garrod.

[Tool of satan]

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HERE's a good one: The secular scienticians are now claiming....get ready for it...that the universe is made out of raspberries and rum!

Some people can't handle the Truth™.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Some people can't handle the Truth™.

Looking in the mirror I see. Good for you.

Why don't you give Jesus a chance to run your life for you? You won't be sorry!

[BelieverInGod]

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Sometimes I think these scientists are sitting around in a room, laughing their butts off and just inventing stuff to release to the media to see how far they can push it.

[Ex-soccer player]

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Sometimes I think these scientists are sitting around in a room, laughing their butts off and just inventing stuff to release to the media to see how far they can push it.

I think it's all about making money.

The Bible contains all the information that you need, all relevant questions are answered in the Bible, questions that aren't answered in the Bible aren't worth asking. One Book contains all truth -->

The problem is, you can't make much money from selling Bibles, because you will get a free one from your Pastor, or you can read it online. So what will the scientists do in order to make money? They will simply invent things, make incredible claims without any Biblical support, then they revoke their former statements, invent new ones etc. That way, they sell their useless books and secure their jobs

[Unintelligentputz]

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I think it's all about making money.

The Bible contains all the information that you need, all relevant questions are answered in the Bible, questions that aren't answered in the Bible aren't worth asking. One Book contains all truth -->

The problem is, you can't make much money from selling Bibles, because you will get a free one from your Pastor, or you can read it online. So what will the scientists do in order to make money? They will simply invent things, make incredible claims without any Biblical support, then they revoke their former statements, invent new ones etc. That way, they sell their useless books and secure their jobs

An atheist attacks you. You decide to throw a rock at him. Should you use Newtonian physics to determine its trajectory or the Holy Bible?

Answer is of course: the Bible
It has been known for all eternity that Christians are infallible rock throwers and don't need mumbojumbo like "Newtonian physics" to hit their target!
Numbers 15:36

[Zechariah Smyth]

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An atheist attacks you. You decide to throw a rock at him. Should you use Newtonian physics to determine its trajectory or the Holy Bible?

Answer is of course: the Bible
It has been known for all eternity that Christians are infallible rock throwers and don't need mumbojumbo like "Newtonian physics" to hit their target!
Numbers 15:36

Hi friend!

Please make your way to the Introduction Forum and start a thread telling us all about yourself and your walk with Jesus. We want to get to know you!

Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

[BelieverInGod]

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An atheist attacks you. You decide to throw a rock at him. Should you use Newtonian physics to determine its trajectory or the Holy Bible?

Did you just equate atheists to Jesus?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Look at THIS. The secular scientitians tell us that they found a dead queer from back in the olden days. The Holy Bible says that queers were killed immediately, so it doesn't surprise me. Once again, science proves the Holy Bible is 100% accurate and true.

The oldest gay in the village: 5,000-year-old is 'outed' by the way he was buried

Skeleton was pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs - rituals only previously seen in female graves

Five thousand years after he died, the first known gay caveman has emerged into the daylight.

According to archaeologists, the way he was buried suggests that he was of a different sexual persuasion.

The skeleton of the late Stone Age man, unearthed during excavations in the Czech Republic, is said to date back to between 2900 and 2500 BC.

During that period, men were traditionally buried lying on their right side with the head pointing towards the west; women on their left side with the head facing east.

In this case, the man was on his left side with his head facing west. Another clue is that men tended to be interred with weapons, hammers and flint knives as well as several portions of food and drink to accompany them to the other side.

Women would be buried with necklaces made from teeth, pets, and copper earrings, as well as domestic jugs and an egg-shaped pot placed near the feet.

The ‘gay caveman’ was buried with household jugs, and no weapons.

Archaeologists do not think it was a mistake or coincidence given the importance attached to funerals during the period, known as the Corded Ware era because of the pottery it produced.

From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake,’ said lead researcher Kamila Remisova Vesinova.

‘Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transvestite. What we see here does not add up to traditional Corded Ware cultural norms.’

An oval, egg-shaped container usually associated with female burials was also found at the feet of the skeleton.

Another member of the archaeological team, Katerina Semradova, said that colleagues had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.

She added that Siberian shamans, or witch doctors, were also buried in this way but with richer funeral accessories appropriate to their elevated position in society.

‘This later discovery was neither of those. We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic.’

[Tommy Lunkhead]

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Gay people are normal people, like everyone else.