The Toronto Star, CNN, CBC, NASA, US News, UK Daily mail and many other news outlets reported on November 20 and 21, 2017 that the streaks seen on the surface of Mars are caused by flowing sand, not water. For hundreds of years scientists have been looking for flowing water. In 2015 it was reported they had found it. Now they retract that claim.
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The dark streaks on crater slopes appeared and disappeared with changing seasons. They appear at the top of craters as the climate warmed, water melted and flowed down the sides, eventually fading away due to freezing when the colder season came. This was thought to be melting and then seeping water being pulled downhill by gravity.
Newer, more detailed research has shown these steaks are actually sand sliding down the crater walls due to gravity. This matches what happens here on earth. They found the sand flows only when the crater wall slope is greater than 27 degrees. The streaks do not flow all the way down, which water would, but stop part way down. You can see the same thing happening on earth when watching sand being piled up in a quarry or sliding down a sand dune.
Scientists really want to find water on some planet. Water is a foundational element for all life forms we know of. Finding water in space increases the chance of life in space. This means Earth is not a unique or special place. It makes the concept of evolution more plausible. I’ll make 2 points regarding this desire of scientists. Finding water does not mean there is life. Water is an element of life but it certainly is not life. It is far from life. Life needs many more chemical elements and it also needs a design, and thus a designer, to put these elements together in a form that lives. The first point is that some day we may find water on some planet. So far we have not. The second point is that even if we do find water it certainly does not mean there is life on that planet or any other. It simply means there is water.
In the Bible, Genesis chapter 1 is says in verse 2 “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.”. Verse 6 and 7 say “Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.”. Then verse 9 says “Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.” It really looks like all there was at the beginning of creation was water and light (verse 3). The heavens were formed from water and on earth the water divided for land to form or be created. Based on this it would be logical to conclude that there is water out there in the universe. It is also logical to think there may still be water out there. So finding water some day would not really be a big deal, at least for Christian scientists.
But for today, none has been found. Evolutionary scientists have once again been wrong in the earlier conclusion that there was flowing water on Mars. Our media is quick and verbose to report on some point of news supporting the idea of evolution but slow and curt in reporting contrary evidence. Do not take everything you hear as the absolute truth. Time will reveal the truth. Time has shown God’s Word, the Bible, to be 100% truth.
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