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Every Tiny Speck of Light in this Image Is a Galaxy

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From the ESA/Herschel/SPIRE space science archive there is an extensive set of imaging data of the visible known universe as observed from the earth.  This article shows a zoomed-in view of about 8 percent of the entire photo width. Images like these demonstrate how incredibly small we are in the universe and allow astronomers to estimate, via extrapolation, the...

Self-Healing, Carbon-Negative Material, Climate Change, and Trusting in God

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Researchers and Engineers have been looking for new inspiring ways to solve problems using biology as the ultimate design guide. I recently read an article titled "Polymethacrylamide and Carbon Composites that Grow, Strengthen, and Self‐Repair using Ambient Carbon Dioxide Fixation" (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adma.201804037) in the Advanced Materials Journal. In the new study, Chemical Engineers demonstrated how to design a material that...

How Genes and Memory Formation Effect the Battle between Sin and Righteousness

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Recently I was reading a couple of very interesting articles on memory formation mechanisms.  You can read them too, see below: Learning to Read the Brain’s Temporary Records: Article Methyl marks on RNA discovered to be key to brain cell connections: Article UCLA scientists discovered how connections between brain cells are located far from the central control centers of the...

A Second Layer of Information on top of our Genetic Code

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Watch Video here The dictionary definition of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is “a self-replicating material present in all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information.”  DNA is what gives us the fundamental and distinctive biological characteristics or qualities of the human body. A person’s DNA is something that is regarded as unchangeable. There...

Destroying or Sustaining Ancestral Knowledge

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Recently I read an article concerning Bighorn sheep and Moose, the study said that both Bighorn sheep and Moose learn to migrate from one another.  When they die, that generational or ancestral knowledge is lost.  The article goes on to describe how in the 1800s there were many Bighorn sheep where stories describe over 1000 sheep could be readily...

Navy’s Advanced Aerospace Tech Boss Claims Key ‘UFO’ Patent Is Operable – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video Here You have probably seen this headline, the US Navy recently submitted and received a patent that is related to UFO technology made the headlines in the news the last couple months. Navy officials claim their radical electromagnetic and superconductor technologies aren't theoretical, they’re already operable in some form. A list of the US patents are shown below...

Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

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Considering the history of Israel and the false gods such as Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon, we have no idea how many people have died at the hand of evil spirits and evil men... Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital Read article here

Storing Solar Energy by Isomerization of Organic Molecules

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Watch Video here I was recently reading an article titled "Macroscopic heat release in a molecular solar thermal energy storage system" (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/ee/c8ee01011k) that is related to the idea of renewable energy storage.  This is a fascinating topic, one of great importance for our future energy needs, and is related to the idea of chemically storing sensible heat in the transformation...

Proof of concept refrigeration system uses magnetic fields and shape-shifting alloys

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I was recently reading a research paper (Gottschall, T. et. al., Nature Materials 2018) titled "A multicaloric cooling cycle that exploits thermal hysteresis." The article reports on a novel method in the development of refrigeration technology. Artificial refrigeration began in the mid-1750s, and developed in the early 1800s. In 1834, the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system was built. Since...

A new chemical process could turn a quarter of our plastic waste into clean fuel – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video here There is a brand new publication (2019) titled “Use of Supercritical Water for the Liquefaction of Polypropylene into Oil” that details a technique to turn nearly a quarter of our plastic waste into fuel (gasoline and diesel-like fuel). What a fantastic discovery! Use of Supercritical Water for the Liquefaction of Polypropylene into OilWan-Ting Chen, Kai Jin, and Nien-Hwa...

Deep Space Travel, Radiation, Stress Response, and the call of God

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A recently published article titled “Space radiation triggers persistent stress response, increases senescent signaling, and decreases cell migration in mouse intestine,” Santosh Kumar, et. al., https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807522115, reports on a study to understand how deep space missions will effect the human body if men and women were sent on a trip to the planet Mars.  Researchers are worried about galactic...

What Existed before the Universe?

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Watch Video here According to the Big Bang Theory, the universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old, and all of the matter in the cosmos existed in a form smaller than a subatomic particle. This is what is known as the universe having existed at this moment in time as a “singularity.” In physics and mathematics, a singularity is a...

Remote Control Insect Flight and what this Teaches us about Sin

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The advances in in science and technology are mind boggling.  I recently read a research paper that was published back in 2009 that describes how researchers can control an insect’s flight path wirelessly via neural implants.  The research paper is titled “Remote Control Insect Flight” (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/neuro.07.024.2009/full) and was a part of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). ...

Electricity Producing Bacteria for Bio-Fuel Cell Application

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Watch Video here Recently I happened upon a news article discussing the topic "Electricity Producing Bacteria for Bio-Fuel Cell Application." The Article described the environmental conditions of the species of bacteria, extreme conditions, oxygen deprived regions, this required the bacteria to have the ability to breath that does not involve oxygen. These microbes are found at the bottom of lakes,...

The Difference between Applied Science and Theoretical Sciences – A Spiritual Insight

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The "applied science" is the application of the fundamentals: mathematics, chemistry, physics, the existing scientific knowledge to practical applications for the development of technology and inventions. The applied sciences is the use of scientific processes and knowledge as a means to achieve a particular practical or useful result. This has broad applications in fields such as engineering, medicine, approaches...

Link between autoimmune disorders and psychosis confirmed in new study

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Psychosis is A mental disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality. What this study teaches us is how our perception of reality can effect the way our body responds in relation to normal function VS disfunction. It would be interesting to see a study done on chronic depression and other disorders... In light of this study how important do...

American Volcanoes get a Very High threat rating from the USGS

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Read an article titled “18 American Volcanoes get a Very High threat rating from the USGS” (https://www.usgs.gov/) where government scientists have classified 18 U.S. volcanoes as having a very high threat rating due to what is happening on the inside of them and in relation to their close proximity to people.  The geographical location of these volcanoes, eleven of...

Serviceable Lithium-ion Batteries – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video here Recently I read an article concerning lithium-ion batteries and the issue of environmental protection.  If one of the battery cells or components break down, the whole battery pack stops working and is discarded. This problem is the result of the throw-away nature of the battery, the design is not for serviceability and so all of the parts...

A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality and how this applies to the Bible – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video here Back in 1961 a physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a thought experiment that demonstrated a paradox of quantum mechanics. The thought experiment demonstrated how two observers would be able to experience different realities. Back in 1961, it was not possible to test his thought experiment.  Today however, the recent development of quantum technologies have made it possible to...

Natural Language Processing – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video Here There is a field of research called Natural language processing (NLP) which is a subfield of computer science, information engineering, and artificial intelligence that is concerned with the human-machine interface via languages. In particular, how computers process and analyze large amounts of natural language data. Natural Language processing is the use of machine learning to discover insights...

What are the consequences of not having a Biblical World View?

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Watch Video here A worldview is a framework from which we view reality and how we make sense of life and the world. It is very important to have an understanding of what this means and to get a handle on what a worldview is. An example to illustrate this is having a purely secular worldview leads to broken families...

Teenager ‘first in UK’ to go deaf and blind due to junk food diet, report reveals – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video Here There was a recent article on www.livescience.com that reported “Teen’s Junk Food Diet Caused Him to Go Blind, Doctors Say.” The report speaks of a teenager who ate nothing but fries, chips, and other junk food for years because he was a fussy eater and the diet led to his slowly going blind and deaf. Research has...

Watch a tiny worm make one of the loudest sounds in the ocean – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video Here Researchers have reported aquatic animals making loud sounds underwater, such as mammals, fish, crustaceans, and insects. A recent publication reports on a soft bodied worm that is capable of producing a loud snap or pop, a very intense sound 157 dB, at 1 meter in the 1-100 kHz range. This species of worm is the...

A Universal Cancer Biomarker – A Spiritual Insight

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Recently there was a paper published in Nature communications titled, “Epigenetically reprogrammed methylation landscape drives the DNA self-assembly and serves as a universal cancer biomarker” (Nature Communicationsvolume 9, Article number: 4915 (2018)) that was very interesting reporting a biochemical phenomenon that allows for the detection of the early stages of cancer.  Researchers say this method of detection takes only...

Our best theoretical model can only explain 5% of the universe

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Watch Video here Our way of looking at the universe has gradually evolved through the course of history.  This has occurred through Scientific Experiment, Observation, and through a natural selection of ideas based upon what the evidence suggests. In the course of man's attempts to explain the universe, scientists have developed various models of the Universe including the categories for...

Scientists Present New Theory Explaining Why We’re the Only Humans on Earth

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The topic being presented here in the article on being the only humans on Earth is based upon the theory of universal common descent (UCD), which postulates all organisms on Earth have descended by modification from a common ancestor, dubbed the "last universal common ancestor" (LUCA).  The principle of continuity holds that every step in any evolutionary pathway must...

International Space Station Astronauts Play with Fire for Research – A Spiritual Insight

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Watch Video Here Astronauts are studying the way fire burns in microgravity environments such as on the International Space Station (ISS). The reason being, fire can be very dangerous in confined spaces such as in a space capsule that is located 250 miles above the Earth, with a limited air supply. The experiments being conducted are called “Confined Combustion”...

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