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For those of you that might have doubted the virgin birth of Jesus through Mary here is one more small thing showing the possibility of virgin birth. Albeit, it only seems to allow female births, at the moment; so it does not bring the virgin birth of a boy child into the realm of non-miraculous just yet. What it does show is that anything you think you “know” about science can turn out to be wrong at any time turn. This is yet another reason why no one should ever insist that anything is impossible, and should always remain open minded to the possibility of the supernatural.

Apparently, this is not the first incident; there has been one other recorded instance of a virgin shark getting pregnant! The first such recorded instance was of a hammerhead shark at the Omaha, Neb Zoo. This current case involved a blacktip shark that had been living in isolation at a Virgina aquarium which recently died, but was found, upon autopsy, to have been carrying a well developed embryo that was very close to full term. The shark is believed to have produced this embryo asexually, and this was confirmed by genetic tests carried out by Mahmood Shivji of the Guy Harvey Research Institute of Nova Southeastern University in Dania Beach, Florida, and his colleagues. They used DNA fingerprint analysis to test for parental markings, and the embryo showed no evidence of having a father. This study concerning a shark named Tidbit and this phenomenon was published in the Oct. 10 Journal of Fish Biology; if you want to look it up for yourself. I am sure you can find more in other news sources too.

Asexual reproduced is certainly not an unknown phenomenon, however it has previously only been observed in birds and reptiles, and they use a different type of asexual reproduction called parthenogenesis. Also asexual reproduction is quite a common phenomenon among prokaryotic organisms, which has been known much longer than eukaryotic asexual reproduction. Perhaps there is also some truth to Jurassic Park; “life…finds a way”.

I hope that your 7/7/7 is going well and I just wanted to leave you with a special list related to the number seven:

We have all heard of the Giant Squid, Architeuthis dux,. A marine creature of near mythical proportions. Now imagine a squid that is on average, at least as large as the largest Giant Squid. That is the Colossal Squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. Colossal Squid grow to a maximum of 46 feet compared to the 39 feet for the giant squid. They are aggressive predators known to attack Sperm Whales. They have been described as not only larger, but a magnitude meaner than Giant Squid. Colossal Squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom. Calamari made from their tentacles would be the size of tractor tires. They weigh half a ton. Their beak and claws rival those of the fiercest land predator.

Recently, New Zealand fisherman led by Jim Anderton fishing off the coast of Antarctica caught an adult male Colossal Squid weighing 990 lbs, and measuring an amazing 39 feet long. The species was discovered in 1925 when two arms were found inside the stomach of a sperm whale. The only other specimen found was a 13 foot long immature female discovered in 1981. The squid was caught while feasting on 8 ft long Chilean Sea Bass.

The Colossal Squid has a gruesome reputation. Giant squid are believed to be the basis of ancient sea myths, such as the Kracken of Norwegian lore. A giant squid attack on a French naval vessel inspired Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A World War II naval vessel has even reported being attacked by a giant squid while sinking, claiming one of their own was eaten in the attack. Colossal Squid also have a mean reputation with marine scientists. Colossal Squid have been known to have been known to attack the massive Sperm Whale. Sperm Whale’s have often been found with huge scars from Colossal Squid hooks and beaks on their backs, as well as Colossal Squid parts in their stomachs. Although this aggression may be nothing compared to what may happen in the future.

Research has shown a recent trend of Squid growing bigger quicker as the water temperature increases. A correlation has shown that for every 1 degree Celsius increase in water temperature, the average juvenile squid doubles in size. This has only been proven in more manageable sizes of normal squid, but the trend may apply to Giant and Colossal Squid. If this is true, the next Colossal Squid found may take a coupe fishermen down with it. This could be the next danger of global warming. Watch out!

Modern technology appears to have no limits. Microsoft comes out with a new version of Windows every year. Monitors are as thick as a piece of paper. Hard drives double their memory every day. However, there are a few drawbacks. Computers take up a noticeable amount of space, and as our bodies expand, we will need that extra space. Although the greatest drawback to modern computers is the fact they are simple pieces of metal; they are not living organisms. After all, we could use the extra food and oxygen living computers would produce. But don’t worry, modern science has found the answers to these all problems, plus our radioactive waste disposal needs.

Researchers headed by Derek Lovley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered a microorganism that is highly electrically conductive. The organism named Geobacter was discovered on the bottom of the Potomac in 1987 by Lovely. Geobacter has already lived a career as a garbage disposal. Since its discovery Geobacter has been used to eliminate petroleum spills, landfill pollution of groundwater, and uranium waste. However, Geobacter is destined for more roles and greater importance in future technology. Geobacter can grow tails called pili, which can be used as a nanowires 3-5 nanometers in length. The nanowires are essential to creating nanodevices. Furthermore, by altering the genes of the organism many different tails can be created with different qualities and functions. However, the organism itself may be very useful. Geobacter can eat pollutants and convert human and animal waste as well as bio fuel into electricity. This electricity can be manipulated to make the organism itself a switch, creating the basis for a bionanocomputer. With the aid of these nanowires and Geobacter’s electrical capabilities, we may finally be able to create computers smaller than their mice, and cellphones we can lose in our ears. Thank you Mr. Scientist.

Lawrence Dorr from South San Francisco Calif. wrote in a letter this to Time Magazine (and it has been published in the Dec 4th issue along with a series of other letters on both sides of the issue, which were in response to the God vs. Science story in the November 13 issue):

What Intelligent Designer came up with caner and toothaches? Who “designed” your appendix and tonsils, organs that do nothing but get infected and cause you grief? How intelligent is the famously fragile human spine, or the narrow pelvis that makes childbirth harder for humans than for almost any other species? There are evolutionary explanations for all of these, but I hardly think there was much intelligence in designing halitosis, acne and flatulence.

I wish this guy would figure out which side he is arguing, because it seems he is almost arguing more for the Intelligent Design side; especially by bringing up that the human pelvis is so narrow as to make childbirth harder for humans than any other species. Lets see Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.” NASB

that is only the third chapter of the whole Bible. This guy is trying to argue against God without even reading three chapters of God’s book. Is it so much to expect that it you are going to reject the concept of a designer you at least knows a little bit about the history the Designer has reveled? As for his other points isn’t evolution suppose to enable us to adapt, so why hasn’t natural selection done away with the appendix, and tonsils and all these other problems that he mentions. Unless maybe God created us, and now, because of sin we have the 2nd law of thermodynamics:

Physicist Lord Kelvin stated it technically as follows: “There is no natural process the only result of which is to cool a heat reservoir and do external work.” In more understandable terms, this law observes the fact that the useable energy in the universe is becoming less and less. Ultimately there would be no available energy left. Stemming from this fact we find that the most probable state for any natural system is one of disorder. All natural systems degenerate when left to themselves.

What do aliens do when they go to the beach. Well hypothetically, if they were mega giants they would be playing with the newly discovered planet HAT-P-1. This planet is huge and puffy, it would be inhabited by Furbies, if Furbies escaped from Earth in a spaceship. In fact this planet is less dense than water. Theoretically earthlings could use it as a beach ball, or well a race of Paul Bunions multiplied to a power of 10.

This planet is the largest of the planets astronomers have discovered in other solar systems. In fact this planet has created a whole new classification for planets. Apparently cosmic puffs is more than a cereal.

Scientists have found a fossil of a snake that had legs and a sacrum. The fossil was found in Patagonia which is in southern Argentina on the content of South America. How do you suppose the writers of the Bible could have known that snakes used to walk.

Genesis 3:14- And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

This obviously implies that the snake did not always slither upon the ground and they knew this a mere 5 thousands years ago or whenever Genesis was written. Interestingly scientists say the snake fossil was 90 million years old. Then I submit this question to them: how can people have known a mere 5 thousand years or so ago, whenever Genesis was written; without having found any fossils themselves or actually having first hand knowledge that there were indeed snakes that did not go upon their bellies. The answer is really quite simple; the fossil is not really 90 million years old. Maybe, they did used radioisotope dating, which uses Uranium-235, since that supposedly has a half life of over 700 million years. However this dating must be called into question since we now know that coal and diamonds which were previously dated to be 300 million years old has been found with Carbon 14 in them, there is obviously a problem with dating methods. See Carbon 14 has a half life of about 5 and a half thousand years, and should not last much longer than 11 thousand years, but yet has been found it these things that are supposed to have formed millions of years ago. How then can we trust the dating of these fossils if the dating of coal and diamonds using the same method has been proven to be off by 299.9 million years; about a 0.3 accuracy percentage?

To add insult to injury the archaeologists named the snake najash, the Hebrew name for the Biblical snake which tempted Adam and Eve. Imagine that they acknowledge the fact that the writer of the Bible at least knew about this type of snake, but they can not come to the logical conclusion that if they knew of it then it must have lived at the same time of humans not 90 millions years ago.

Wow this is one weird creature.

I happened by this thing on CNN.com and apparently it was found in the South Pacific by some French drivers. It is so different form any normal lobster or crustacean that they even created a new family and genus for it. OK I know what your thinking right now; that this is some kind of joke, but it is not, this thing is real! This creature is 5.9 inches long, white, and blind they say and it they name it a Kiwaida after Kiwa the Polynesian goddess of crustaceans.

If you don’t believe me, check it out for yourself here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/03/08/furry.lobster.ap/index.html