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Neanderthals Had Language Gene Identical to Ours
Friday , October 19, 2007

By Charles Q. Choi

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Neanderthals might have spoken just like humans do now, new genetic findings suggest.

Neanderthals are humanity’s closest extinct relatives. Since their discovery more than 150 years ago, researchers have found out they could make tools just like our ancestors could.

Whether Neanderthals also had advanced language, rather than mere grunts and groans, has remained hotly debated, however.

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To learn more, scientists investigated DNA from Neanderthal bones collected from a cave in northern Spain, concentrating on a gene, FOXP2, which is to date the only one known to play a role in speech and language.

People with an abnormal copy of this gene have speech and language problems.

Genes similar to FOXP2 are found throughout the genomes of the animal kingdom, from fish to alligators to songbirds.

The molecule that human FOXP2 generates differs from chimpanzee FOXP2’s by just two amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Past research suggests the gene’s modern human variant evolved fewer than 200,000 years ago. Now scientists find the Neanderthal FOXP2 gene is identical to ours.

The ancestors of Neanderthals diverged from ours roughly 300,000 years ago, according to the latest thinking. Some studies have suggested that the two species might have intermingled after that, however.

“It is possible that Neanderthals spoke just like we do,” paleogeneticist Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told LiveScience.

“Of course many genes are involved in language,” cautioned Krause, the new study’s lead researcher.

As scientists discover more of such genes, these will have to be examined in Neanderthals as well, he said.

Krause noted that some might suggest that interbreeding or “gene flow” (aka sex) between modern humans and Neanderthals led to us having FOXP2 in common.

“However, we see no evidence for gene flow in the Y-chromosome sequences,” he said, referring to the “male” chromosome that men inherit almost always unchanged from their fathers.

Instead, the modern human and Neanderthal Y chromosomes are substantially different genetically.

Krause and his colleagues detailed their findings online Oct. 18 in the journal Current Biology.

Hmm. Sounds like they are just like us because they are
human just like us! Just a thought.. Chris

Gigantic Plant-Eating Dinosaur Unearthed in Patagonia
Monday , October 15, 2007

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil —

The skeleton of what could be a new dinosaur species — a giant, Patagonian plant-eater — has been uncovered in Argentina.

At more than 105 feet, it is among the largest ever found, scientists said Monday.

Scientists from Argentina and Brazil said the Patagonian dinosaur appears to represent a previously unknown species because of the unique structure of its neck.

They named it Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words for “giant” and “chief,” and for Duke Energy Argentina, which helped fund the skeleton’s excavation.

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“This is one of the biggest in the world and one of the most complete of these giants that exist,” said Jorge Calvo, director of paleontology center of National University of Comahue, Argentina, lead author of a study on the dinosaur published in the peer-reviewed Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Scientists said the giant herbivore walked the Earth some 88 million years ago.

Since the first bones were found on the banks of Lake Barreales in the Argentine province of Neuquen in 2000, paleontologists have dug up the dinosaur’s neck, back region, hips and the first vertebra of its tail.

“I’m pretty certain it’s a new species,” agreed Peter Mackovicky, associate curator for dinosaurs at Chicago’s Field Museum, who was not involved with the discovery. “I’ve seen some of the remains of Futalognkosaurus and it is truly gigantic.”

Patagonia also was home to the other two largest dinosaur skeletons found to date — Argentinasaurus, at around 115 feet long, and Puertasaurus reuili, between 115 to 131 feet long.

Comparison between the three herbivores, however, is difficult because scientists have only found few vertebrae of Puertasaurus and while the skeleton of Futalognkosaurus is fairly complete, scientists have not uncovered any bones from its limbs.

The site where Futalognkosaurus was found has been a bonanza for paleontologists, yielding more than 1,000 specimens, including 240 fossil plants, 300 teeth and the remains of several other dinosaurs.

Hmm… Maybe it died in the flood about 4400 years ago.
Just a thought! Chris

Tyrannosaur Footprint Found in Montana
Friday , October 12, 2007

By Jeanna Bryner

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A paleontologist has discovered a giant footprint most likely left by a towering tyrannosaur as it pounded the Earth 65 million years ago.

The footprint, which measures about 2.5 feet (74 centimeters) in length, was found in rocks in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation, a well-known site for Tyrannosaurus rex fossils.

“We are relatively confident that it’s been made by a theropod, or predatory dinosaur,” said paleontologist Phillip Manning of the University of Manchester in England, who was part of the team that found the print.

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Based on the footprint’s slender toes, toe positions and overall size, Manning and his colleagues have narrowed down the dinosaur’s species name to either T. rex or Nanotyrannus, a tyrannosaur whose name means “tiny tyrant.”

“Predatory dinosaurs have much more gracile toes than their dumpy hadrosaur [duck-billed dinosaur] friends that are lolloping around at the end of the Cretaceous,” Manning told LiveScience.

T. rex is thought to have grown to about 40 feet (12 meters) in length, while Nanotyrannus was likely just about 17 feet (5 meters) long. Both dinosaurs lived 67 million to 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

Of course there’s always the possibility that a species of dinosaur that is new to science left the print, Manning said.

A future discovery of a more pristine and unweathered footprint at the site, made by the same species, would also help in identifying the dinosaur that made the latest print.

“The only way you’d know whether an animal had left its footprint 65 million years ago in a specific package of rock would be to find the animal dead in its tracks,” Manning said.

First statment 65 million years as if it is a fact,
right off the bat..hmm….
Just a thought… Chris

Skull Suggests Two Early Humans Lived at Same Time
Thursday , August 09, 2007

WASHINGTON —

Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man.

The new research by famed paleontologist Meave Leakey in Kenya shows our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, calling into question the evolution of our ancestors.

The old theory was that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became us, Homo sapiens.

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But those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years, Leakey and colleagues report in a paper published in Thursday’s journal Nature.

In 2000 Leakey found an old H. erectus complete skull within walking distance of an upper jaw of the H. habilis, and both dated from the same general time period.

That makes it unlikely that H. erectus evolved from H. habilis, researchers said.

It’s the equivalent of finding that your grandmother and great-grandmother were sisters rather than mother-daughter, said study co-author Fred Spoor, a professor of evolutionary anatomy at the University College in London.

The two species lived near each other, but probably didn’t interact with each other, each having their own “ecological niche,” Spoor said.

Homo habilis was likely more vegetarian and Homo erectus ate some meat, he said.

Like chimps and gorillas, “they’d just avoid each other, they don’t feel comfortable in each other’s company,” he said.

They have some still-undiscovered common ancestor that probably lived 2 million to 3 million years ago, a time that has not left much fossil record, Spoor said.

Overall what it paints for human evolution is a “chaotic kind of looking evolutionary tree rather than this heroic march that you see with the cartoons of an early ancestor evolving into some intermediate and eventually unto us,” Spoor said in a phone interview from a field office of the Koobi Fora Research Project in northern Kenya.

That old evolutionary cartoon, while popular with the general public, keeps getting proven wrong and too simple, said Bill Kimbel, who praised the latest findings.

He is science director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and wasn’t involved in the research team.

“The more we know, the more complex the story gets,” he said.

Scientists used to think H. sapiens evolved from Neanderthals, a closely related species, he said, but now know that both species lived during the same time period and that we did not come from Neanderthals.

Now a similar discovery applies further back in time.

Leakey’s team spent seven years analyzing the fossils before announcing their findings that it was time to redraw the family tree — and rethink other ideas about human evolutionary history, especially about our most immediate ancestor, H. erectus.

Because the H. erectus skull Leakey recovered was much smaller than others, scientists had to first prove that it was erectus and not another species nor a genetic freak.

The jaw, probably from an 18- or 19-year-old female, was adult and showed no signs of any type of malformations or genetic mutations, Spoor said. The scientists also know it isn’t H. habilis from several distinct features on the jaw.

That caused researchers to re-examine the 30 other erectus skulls they have and the dozens of partial fossils.

They realized that the females of that species are much smaller than the males — something different from modern man, but similar to other animals, said study co-author Susan Anton, a New York University anthropologist.

Scientists hadn’t looked carefully enough before to see that there was a distinct difference in males and females.

Difference in size between males and females seem to be related to monogamy, the researchers said.

Primate species that have same-sized males and females, such as gibbons, tend to be more monogamous. Species that are not monogamous, such as gorillas and baboons, have much bigger males.

This suggests that our ancestor H. erectus reproduced with multiple partners.

The H. habilis jaw was dated at 1.44 million years ago. That is the youngest ever found from a species that scientists originally figured died off somewhere between 1.7 and 2 million years ago, Spoor said. It enabled scientists to say that H. erectus and H. habilis lived at the same time.

All the changes to human evolutionary thought should not be considered a weakness in the theory of evolution, Kimbel said. Rather, those are the predictable results of getting more evidence, asking smarter questions and forming better theories, he said.

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Scientist: Life Almost Certainly Began in Comet
Tuesday , August 21, 2007

Life almost undoubtedly began in space, and specifically in the hearts of comets, rather than on Earth, a new study claims.

Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astrobiologist at Cardiff University in Wales, and his team say their calculations show that it is one trillion trillion times more likely that life started inside a slushy comet than on Earth.

“The comets and the warm watery clay pools in comets are settings in which the organic molecules are transformed into living structures in comets,” Wickramasinghe said. “That transformation is more likely in some comet somewhere in the galaxy than in any small pond on the Earth.”

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The new findings will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Astrobiology.

But while most scientists are willing to concede that fallen comets might have delivered some of the water and organic materials necessary for life to Earth, critics say that Wickramasinghe’s proposal that life originated in comets which subsequently crashed on our planet — an idea called panspermia — is speculative and not supported by evidence.

“It looks to me as if their conclusions are constructed from a series of speculations, none of which is based on much evidence. It is a theory built on air, not solidly grounded in scientific facts,” said David Morrison, a senior scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., who was not involved in the study.

Speculative

Wickramasinghe and his colleagues’ idea rests on the assumption that comets are full of porous clay particles that can hold water in a liquid form for eons.

Cometary missions such as Deep Impact have found evidence for a variety of silicates existing inside comets, but not clay per se, Morrison said.

The “assumption that Earth has very little clay while comets are full of clay is the key to their argument, and it is at best speculation,” Morrison said.

It is also an open question as to whether comets do indeed contain liquid water inside them and whether other star systems support comets at all, let alone clay-, water- or life-bearing comets.

“No comets have been discovered yet around other stars,” Morrison said in an e-mail interview.

Paul Falkowski, a biochemist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, also does not think that the site of life’s origins can be figured out using simple calculations.

“These basic kinds of things are dependent on the beginning initial assumptions. I don’t know that we know the odds,” Falkowski said. “We know the odds for exactly one planet, and it happened once, so everything else is a game.”

The cosmic-ray threat

Recent work by Falkowski and his team suggests that life would have difficulty surviving unprotected in deep space, where comets spend most of their existences.

In research detailed in the Aug. 6 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team recovered highly degraded microbial DNA from 8 million-year-old Antarctic ice and estimated that DNA on Earth has a half-life of only about 1.1 million years.

In other words, every 1.1 million years, half of the DNA in dead organisms disappears.

The researchers say cosmic rays are the culprits and think that DNA — or any other complex organic molecule — would have a difficult time surviving for long in space, where radiation levels are much higher than on Earth.

“The radiation flux on the surface of this planet is one-tenth to one-one-hundredth to that of space,” Falkowski told SPACE.com. “So when you go into a situation where you don’t have a magnetic field protecting you from cosmic background radiation, the amount of damage to DNA would be incredibly high.”

Falkowski’s team estimates that DNA would survive only a few hundred thousand years in space, essentially ruling out interstellar pollination of life by comets as well as the potential for life to survive in space for very long.

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Hmmm. they are getting desperate for a theory that
keeps God out of the picture. The answer is right in
front of them. God did it all just like the Bible says
he did! Just a thought..
Chris

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Fossils challenge old evoluton theory By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
Wed Aug 8, 5:57 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved.

The discovery by Meave Leakey, a member of a famous family of paleontologists, shows that two species of early human ancestors lived at the same time in Kenya. That pokes holes in the chief theory of man’s early evolution — that one of those species evolved from the other.

And it further discredits that iconic illustration of human evolution that begins with a knuckle-dragging ape and ends with a briefcase-carrying man.

The old theory is that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became human, Homo sapiens. But Leakey’s find suggests those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya for at least half a million years. She and her research colleagues report the discovery in a paper published in Thursday’s journal Nature.

The paper is based on fossilized bones found in 2000. The complete skull of Homo erectus was found within walking distance of an upper jaw of Homo habilis, and both dated from the same general time period. That makes it unlikely that Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis, researchers said.

It’s the equivalent of finding that your grandmother and great-grandmother were sisters rather than mother-daughter, said study co-author Fred Spoor, a professor of evolutionary anatomy at the University College in London.

The two species lived near each other, but probably didn’t interact, each having its own “ecological niche,” Spoor said. Homo habilis was likely more vegetarian while Homo erectus ate some meat, he said. Like chimps and apes, “they’d just avoid each other, they don’t feel comfortable in each other’s company,” he said.

There remains some still-undiscovered common ancestor that probably lived 2 million to 3 million years ago, a time that has not left much fossil record, Spoor said.

Overall what it paints for human evolution is a “chaotic kind of looking evolutionary tree rather than this heroic march that you see with the cartoons of an early ancestor evolving into some intermediate and eventually unto us,” Spoor said in a phone interview from a field office of the Koobi Fora Research Project in northern Kenya.

That old evolutionary cartoon, while popular with the general public, is just too simple and keeps getting revised, said Bill Kimbel, who praised the latest findings. He is science director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and wasn’t part of the Leakey team.

“The more we know, the more complex the story gets,” he said. Scientists used to think Homo sapiens evolved from Neanderthals, he said. But now we know that both species lived during the same time period and that we did not come from Neanderthals.

Now a similar discovery applies further back in time.

Susan Anton, a New York University anthropologist and co-author of the Leakey work, said she expects anti-evolution proponents to seize on the new research, but said it would be a mistake to try to use the new work to show flaws in evolution theory.

“This is not questioning the idea at all of evolution; it is refining some of the specific points,” Anton said. “This is a great example of what science does and religion doesn’t do. It’s a continous self-testing process.”

For the past few years there has been growing doubt and debate about whether Homo habilis evolved into Homo erectus. One of the major proponents of the more linear, or ladder-like evolution that this evidence weakens, called Leakey’s findings important, but he wasn’t ready to concede defeat.

Dr. Bernard Wood, a surgeon-turned-professor of human origins at George Washington University, said in an e-mail Wednesday that “this is only a skirmish in the protracted ‘war’ between the people who like a bushy interpretation and those who like a more ladder-like interpretation of early human evolution.”

Leakey’s team spent seven years analyzing the fossils before announcing it was time to redraw the family tree — and rethink other ideas about human evolutionary history. That’s especially true of most immediate ancestor, Homo erectus.

Because the Homo erectus skull Leakey recovered was much smaller than others, scientists had to first prove that it was erectus and not another species nor a genetic freak. The jaw, probably from an 18- or 19-year-old female, was adult and showed no signs of malformation or genetic mutations, Spoor said. The scientists also know it isn’t Homo habilis from several distinct features on the jaw.

That caused researchers to re-examine the 30 other erectus skulls they have and the dozens of partial fossils. They realized that the females of that species are much smaller than the males — something different from modern man, but similar to other animals, said Anton. Scientists hadn’t looked carefully enough before to see that there was a distinct difference in males and females.

Difference in size between males and females seem to be related to monogamy, the researchers said. Primates that have same-sized males and females, such as gibbons, tend to be more monogamous. Species that are not monogamous, such as gorillas and baboons, have much bigger males.

This suggests that our ancestor Homo erectus reproduced with multiple partners.

The Homo habilis jaw was dated at 1.44 million years ago. That is the youngest ever found from a species that scientists originally figured died off somewhere between 1.7 and 2 million years ago, Spoor said. It enabled scientists to say that Homo erectus and Homo habilis lived at the same time.

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Giant Squid Washes Up on Tasmanian Beach
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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HOBART, Australia —

A squid as long as a bus and weighing 550 pounds washed up on an Australian beach, officials said Wednesday.

“It is a whopper,” said Genefor Walker-Smith, a zoologist who studies invertebrates at the Tasmanian Museum.

Giant squid live in waters off southern Australia and New Zealand — where a half-ton colossus, believed to be the world’s largest, was caught in February. They attract the sperm whales that feed on them.

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The dead squid, measuring 3 feet across at its widest point and 26 feet from the tip of its body to the end of its tentacles, was found early Wednesday by a beachcomber at Ocean Beach on the island state of Tasmania’s west coast, the museum said.

The squid was expected to be taken to the museum, where DNA and other scientific tests would be carried out before it is preserved and possibly put on public display.

For anyone thinking of a calamari feast, Walker-Smith said giant squid contain high levels of ammonia in their bodies as a buoyancy aid.

“It would not taste very nice at all,” she said.

New Zealand fishermen netted a 1,100-pound, 33-foot-long squid in the Southern Ocean in February.

It is widely believed to be the largest specimen of the rare and mysterious deep-water species Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, or colossal squid, ever caught.

[The giant squid, of which the one washed up in Tasmania is believed to be an example, is a different species — one of several in the genus Architeuthis.]

Experts believe the creatures, which have long been one of the most mysterious denizens of the deep ocean, may grow even bigger — up to 46 feet long.

Hmmm.. I thought they were extinct
millions of years ago! Just a thought, Lord Bless, Chris

FALWELL CONFIDENTIAL

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From: Jonathan Falwell

Date: June 1, 2007

Explaining the Foundations of the Universe

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

So begins the Bible in Genesis chapter 1 (KJV). In that simple sentence, we gain great insight into the foundations of the universe and beyond.

God spoke. And worlds we cannot even imagine appeared.

This is foundational truth for Christians who believe the vast universe, including our world, was created by God in six literal days.

We believe that their can be no design without a Designer.

However, a key problem in the creationism/evolution debate through the years has been that Christians have not been trained how to deal with challenges to their beliefs.

That has now changed.

The multi-million dollar Creation Museum, a product of Answers in Genesis, is now open in Hebron, Kentucky (just outside of Cincinnati). This multi-million dollar museum, designed by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, takes visitors on an amazing walk through biblical history.

Included in this state-of-the-art 60,000-square-foot structure are computer-generated visual effects, more than 50 exotic animals, life-sized dinosaur animatronics and a special-effects theater designed to thrill (and educate) the entire family.

I believe the Creation Museum is a godsend.

Our public schools almost exclusively teach from an evolutionary perspective. And the mainstream media approach evolution as fact. Meanwhile, those who hold creationism views are often depicted as narrow-minded Jesus freaks.

The fact is, a recent Gallup Poll found that almost half of Americans believe that humans did not evolve, and believe that God created humans within the last 10,000 years. This is an amazing occurrence considering the evolution indoctrination that is taking place in our nation.

Through the Creation Museum, people can learn how to defend their beliefs.

The Creation Museum uses what they term the “Seven C’s of History” to teach about biblical creationism. Those C’s are:

CREATION: God created galaxies, solar systems and planets in six days.

CORRUPTION: The entrance of sin into the world brought about sickness and death in our once perfect world.

CATASTROPHE: Sin was the natural progression of man in his fallen state and the global flood destroyed all, except for Noah, his family and the animals on the ark.

CONFUSION: Following the flood, man again disobeyed God and people began to spread across the earth, speaking their own languages.

CHRIST & THE CROSS: Because sin brings about death, God sent His Son Jesus to die in our place and rise again to defeat death. Jesus’ crucifixion was His act of paying the sin debt for all.

CONSUMMATION: God promises in Scripture to do away with the corruption of man by creating a new heaven and a new earth where death and suffering no longer exist for those who have followed Jesus Christ.

Further, the Creation Museum is steeped in scientific evidence.

“Creation researchers and evolutionists study the same sets of evidence, including fossils, animals, stars, etc., before making an interpretation,” Creation Museum officials say. “Visitors will learn that the natural sciences verify scriptural authority when one objectively studies the data.”

I encourage readers to make plans to visit the Creation Museum. On its opening day, more than 4,000 people were on hand. It’s a perfect place for a family visit, a school field trip or a church study program.

The museum is open Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., and Sundays, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. Visit the museum’s website for more info and lots of great sources of news and instruction: www.creationmuseum.org

Just a thought! Chris

Scientists confirm global flood in times of Noah*

10.04.2007

Scientists have discovered oceans hiding deep down inside the planet.
The large bodies of water are reportedly located at a depth of more than
1,000 km underneath the earth’s surface.

The story of the Flood is a Biblical story about the universal deluge as
recorded in Genesis. Some people regard it as a myth. However, many
scientists believe the Flood did occur in days of Noah. Scientists point
out numerous traces of the flooding still existent in various parts of
the globe. They also believe that the salt-water lakes scattered around
the land thousands kilometers away from a shoreline are the remainders
of Noah’s Flood.

The question is: Where did all that water come from? What was the cause
of a catastrophic deluge sweeping across the planet in the days of Noah?
According to the Bible, Noah had to build a large boat for himself, his
family, and a pair of every kind of creature to survive the Flood.

Quite a few hypotheses aim to explain the Biblical event. Some
researchers say that an asteroid or comet may have hit the planet,
causing a colossal tsunami. Others claim that rivers iced over following
a drop in temperatures. As a result, the sea level rose up
catastrophically. Other researchers link the Flood with a sudden
displacement of the earth’s axis; the displacement is thought to have
triggered a huge mass of water to spew around the globe.

Until recently there was not any solid scientific evidence to back
various theories pertaining to the origins of the Flood. The situation
changed in February following reports on a sensational discovery by U.S.
researchers. According to their study, the water which flooded the
planet came out from the depths of Earth. The researchers discovered
immense bodies of water below the earth’s surface.

Two underground oceans

Planet Earth is constantly monitored by seismographs, the instruments
for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes. The
vibrations recorded in different parts of the planet enable researchers
to obtain valuable data regarding the dispersion of shock waves in the
earth’s crust and mantle. Professor of Seismology Michael Wysession at
George Washington University of Saint Louis and Jesse Lawrence, a
postgraduate at the University of California in San Diego, joined forces
to carry out an extensive research. Their work involved the analysis of
600 thousand seismograms. The findings really made them gasp in
astonishment: there was evidence indicating that at least two large
bodies of water were located underneath Eurasia and North America.

“The specific attenuation characteristics of the lengthwise seismic
waves clearly indicate the presence of water. Those characteristics are
pertinent to water,” said Prof. Wysession.

The researchers also designed a 3-D model of the area on the basis of
sounding data. They are confident that the underground oceans contain as
much water as the Arctic Ocean does. The water is located at a depth
ranging from 1,200 km to 1,400 km.

Academician Eric Galimov, director of Moscow-based Vernadsky Institute
of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, called Wysession’s theory
“quite credible.” It is worthy of notice that British researchers at the
University of Manchester claimed to have discovered sea water underneath
the earth’s surface some sixty years ago.

The Britons found the traces of water while analyzing carbon dioxide
gushing from a depth of about 1,500 km. The scientific community ignored
the discovery despite a publication in Nature magazine.

Underground water broke loose

It is still unclear how water came into being inside Earth. Perhaps it
has existed from the very beginning. Many researchers suggest the
underground water comes up to the surface periodically. Likewise, the
ocean water seeps downward. Scientifically speaking, the size of the
earth’s hydrosphere is subject to change. The changes are most probably
caused by the movements of the earth’s crust and mantle.

Incidentally, there are strange holes discovered at the bottom of the
ocean. The hot water reaching 400 degrees Celsius streams from the
holes, which were dubbed “black smokers.” Perhaps the water from the
underground oceans is flowing through the holes.

It is possible that the underground floodgates may have broken down in
prehistoric times. Consequently, millions of tons of hot salt water and
vapor began to burst forth. The sea level around the globe went up
dramatically. The water vapor condensed and fell down hard. The rain
lasted for 40 days. All the above resulted in an event that was later
described as the Flood. Eventually, the water was sucked back into the
depths of the planet.

The findings released by the American researchers indicate that a
catastrophic event may happen again, at least from a theoretical point
of view. Prof. Wysession stresses the point that the areas located
beneath the underground oceans have water too. He specifically refers to
the parts of the mantle that have not been researched yet. Prof.
Wysession believes there is plenty of water out there. According to his
estimates, the amount of water may be five times as greater as that of
all the oceans on the earth’s surface.

Komsomolskaya Pravda

Translated by Guerman Grachev

Just a thought, Lord Bless Chris

Dino Makeover
Hey this is cool – In Wyoming they are reconstructing an exhibit to more properly show the dinosaur with its tail in the air, not dragging behind itself! They are redoing their exhibit based on newer evidence.

Now if only they would dismantle the theory of evolution as well!