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The first scientific analysis of images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover has now confirmed that Mars' Jezero crater -- which today is a dry, wind-eroded depression -- was once a quiet lake, fed steadily by a small river some 3.7 billion years ago.
The images also reveal evidence that the crater endured flash floods. This flooding was energetic enough to sweep up large boulders from tens of miles upstream and deposit them into the lakebed, where the massive rocks lie today.
[...] "We now have the opportunity to look for fossils," says team member Tanja Bosak, associate professor of geobiology at MIT. "It will take some time to get to the rocks that we really hope to sample for signs of life. So, it's a marathon, with a lot of potential."
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Rover Images Confirm Jezero Crater is an Ancient Martian Lake
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Tuesday October 12 2021, @12:19AM (5 children)
I find the whole "7 Days" thing very interesting. Most people (perhaps yourself too) believe that a lot of the Bible is written in parable, rather than to be taken as the literal truth. Read that way, the 7 'days' (phases) of creation actually follows the Big Bang and theory of Evolution. The two are actually compatible. As for what caused the Big Bang, God is as good an answer as any other we have. An all-knowing God could create the rules of the universe, knowing the mechanisms that would lead to the creation of single-celled life and the adaptations and mutations that would eventually give rise to humans. In other words, he wrote the program that is currently running, but works on a much longer time-scale than humans can comprehend.
Given you believe in a literal 7 day (144 hours of work and 24 hours of rest) creation (presumably 6,000 years ago?), there are some questions that remain:
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 12 2021, @01:50PM
Those are all good questions. I've pondered that for much of my life. Of course, I don't know. It does seem like the creation was built as if it had a long history. If I were to create a sophisticated detailed universe as some sort of hypothetical computer simulation using technology we don't have, that simulation would probably be filled with things that had just happened yesterday, or last week, or millions of years ago, etc. If you cut down a tree in the garden of Eden, would it have rings? I think so.
I have no problem with the history of the universe that smart people deduce based on observations and measurements; ether with their own senses or instruments that augment their senses.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 12 2021, @02:09PM (3 children)
#1 The Flood, it caused all kinds of destruction and was responsible for the weird mass graves of the dinosaurs. In the event that you believe that the fountains of the deep were broken up and the heavens opened up/poured down rain. The devastation a world wide flood could easily be the cause of the "weirdness". Ditto, #2.
#3 Why are you putting so much faith in being able to accurately determine the weathering patterns of a few thousand years or so?
#4 The belief is that the garden of Eden and Creation was perfect at the time of Creation, up until the time that humans first sinned. After which, the ground was cursed, snakes could no longer fly (yes, there is a gliding snake), etc. There are at leas two schools of thought on dinosaurs. First thought, God created them, but he knew they wouldn't be able to survive post-flood, so he let them die in the flood. (My wife's preferred version, because she likes dinosaurs.) Second thought, they were amalgamations created by evil men and/or Satan. Imagine an entire people of Geniuses who could live nearly 1000 years. The real decline in human health/vigor came after the flood, Noah lived a total of 600 years or so and subsequent generations died off much faster. Imagine what some of our geniuses have accomplished, then multiply their life span by 8-10x, then you can start to see what they might have accomplished. Then again, they didn't need computers to remember things for them, either.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:01PM (2 children)
How do you trust your religious books to be true when it's demonstrably clear that there are errors in transmission and political meddling for thousands of years? How does a book wholly produced by men propose to faithfully reproduce the message of a being beyond the comprehension of men?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:21AM
Yeaaah
Critical thinking and religion do not go together, kinda by definition. When you turn ignorance into faith, no matter how well intentioned, you eventually end up with more ignorance and often hate. Thus why we have a politicized pandemic!
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:01PM
When you look at the history of the bible, you might be surprised at just how accurately translated and preserved it is.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"