The legendary chupacabra

The legendary chupacabra is just a mangy coyote
The chupacabras has ashen skin, prominent fangs and ridges on the back. According to legend stretching from the US to Southern Cone of America, attacking goats and chickens to drink their blood. But Sharman Hoppes, veterinary medicine at Texas A & M University, the mythical creature is nothing more than a coyote with mange.

Days ago, Hoppes received a call from Hood County Sheriff in northern Texas. They had found a creature near a school and the neighbors called the police, who struck the animal. "Suspected it was a chupacabra" comantaba Hoppes shaking his head.
First, Hoppes studied anatomy: "We look his head, ears, teeth and knew it was some kind of canine. If it was a coyote or coyote hybrid dog or coyote and wolf is difficult to determine, given their status, "he says. The skin disease was evident. "You see how the skin is thicker, wrinkled and hyperpigmented, abnormally dark with this proliferation in the ears". The skin scraping confirmed that the animal was suffering from severe mange, caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The vet says that the animal had long without eating, scabies weakened him and affected his ability to hunt. The back muscle was consumed, creating small ridges on the back.

Hoppes sent the body to complete the Pathology for necropsy. There reviewed the internal organs and found more mites. Finally, they took blood and tissue samples for DNA analysis.

Remove the legend of chupacabras can help these scientists to go further. According Hoppes, interested to find out "why this animal has developed scabies so severely. A dog with scabies is not like this. " The analysis of the adrenal glands reveal whether the child suffered immunodeficiency.

Teeth in the freezer

It is the first time that one of these analyzes whole animals. For years there have been sightings of chupacabras assumptions about the US-Mexico border. However, Hoppes said, "who claimed to have captured one is reluctant to give it away for investigation, only send pieces of skin or a tooth. As the woman who claims to have two or three, I think in your freezer. "

The woman he refers is called Phyllis Canion. Three years ago a similar creature found on his ranch and froze. Today, the self-shirts Lady of the Chupacabras sells on its website with the slogan 2007, the year of the Chupacabras.

On reports of goats and chickens bled, Hoppes said that "kill this animal bites, not sucking blood. I see no relationship, I do not know if there will be vampires in the area. " His reflection is not far-fetched: vampire bats live in Texas. A few of them, a mangy coyote and a rancher with a freezer enough to be a chupacabra. And 20 more dollars, the shirt.

The reality is an illusion

After watching this documentary, which part has not left a most unpleasant aftertaste. If the insistent tune style "Manic Miner" desquiciándote just nerves, if the hair style of Gregg Bradden Bee Gees (do not tell me that does not seem to be starting in falsetto one moment to another), the tremendous similarity of the It is said here with the doctrines of IRCAI or the insane jealousy of the great imagination that people have to invent young.


Gregg Bradden
And the worst is that quite see the document and I can not understand the message we try to convey. It must be the tune that no longer let me pay attention.
I prefer the new prophecy for 2012. The Schumann resonance is increasing following the Fibonacci series.

At the cellular level our bodies react to the electromagnetic pulse. The cells receive this pulse through the brain, which receives the heart, which in turn receives it from Earth. This pulse comes from the Solar System, which receives Galaxy and finally receives the Universe.

The pulse of the Earth has always been about 7.8 Hz. This number was constant until 1987, was increased to 9 Hz in 1997. For 2012 the frequency is 13 Hz, as indicated by the Fibonacci series What does for humanity?

I fear the worst

It is difficult to understand what will happen to our physical bodies. But the man undergo a change that will elevate him to a higher state of consciousness.

Well, I do not understand it without music. Is it because I have an open enough mind. Is this going to hurt or not?

Detected intelligent life on Earth

NASA has on its website a section called "Astronomy Picture of the Day" in which he published a picture of our fascinating universe, along with a brief explanation of a professional astronomer daily.

On February 6 the photo published was this:

© SETI

Nobody knows for sure what caused this signal. There is a slight possibility that it could be caused by an extraterrestrial civilization. Bright colors of blue background indicate that an anomalous signal was received here on Earth by a radio telescope project search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The search for these signals is being conducted by several groups including volunteer members of the SETI League. The vertical axis represents time and the horizontal frequency. Although this strong signal has not been identified, astronomers found themselves in it many attributes that point to a much more mundane origin and ... Earth. In this case, the most likely explanation is that the signal originated by the unusual modulation between a GPS satellite and terrestrial signal unidentified. Many unusual signals detected in space remain inidentificadas. But none has been strong enough, or lasted long enough to be considered unequivocally as alien

Elsewhere, as the world with my eyes, it has also dealt with this news, but making a partial translation of the explanation of the astronomer. Guess which part?

NASA Official: Possible extraterrestrial signal received

"No one knows for sure what Caused esta signal. There is a slight Possibility That Might it just originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence. "

The virgin who opens and closes her eyes

According to an article by journalist Gianni Bonina, the newspaper "La Sicilia" of September 23, 1994, the young Domenico di Martino, 24 and in poor health, she went to church with his video camera in order to document the procession of Our Lady of Sorrows, it was not performed due to weather conditions. Therefore, it starts recording images inside the church, realizing that when it captures the statue of the Virgin, it closes and opens his eyes again, leaving stunned young Sicilian.

Not believing what he saw through the camera, Domenico notices with their own eyes that the statue continues to make the same gesture with his eyes, he ran to tell the priest, Paolo Mansueto, the phenomenon we just witnessed. Without believing too much in what you hear, the cleric Domenico informs that at least a dozen people had already informed this matter, but had not taken seriously his claims. But having a video image is somewhat different, and thus both confirm the veracity of the event.

That same night, and given the clamorous experience, parishioners begin to speak openly of the miracle, and a local photographer request a copy of the video, and then analyzing it, reach the conclusion that there is a fraud, it is a true picture. Same conclusion we have reached virtually all television technicians around the world who have been able to access those images.



This is how Miguel Muñoz, Jaime Mexican Mausan second or third prime time, described the supposed miracle of Our Lady of Sorrows Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Ispica, Sicily, which opens and closes his eyes at the sight of all faithful.

The virgin is a real cari size so that having changed by someone with a hidden mechanism is complicated. But if you look carefully at the time that closes the eyes closed you will notice something else. (1:35)

The camera loses focus and saturated overexposing the image. This makes the black parts shrink. As when looking at a face we mainly look at the eyes gives us the impressionthat that these are closed. But if you look at the mouth we noticed the same effect. Therefore, we accept this decision or simply reproduces an optical effect, a lucky optical effect for this city of Ispica, or call this "the virgin who opens and closes his eyes and mouth image by moving her eyebrows and widening face ".

How debate with a creationist?

Debate with a creationist is very easy because you only have a few arguments and have been long enough without adding something new. These arguments have been published again and again, and when you talk to a creationist you the loose all of his run. Each is easily refuted, although it is true that never get to change his mind.

We're going to see one by one these arguments, and begin by I like best:

Evolution is a theory, not a fact

This should be understood as that evolution is an unproven hypothesis, like many others, and therefore should not be taught in schools as if something true. Really evolution is a theory and it is also a fact. A fact is something that we see in the world, and one theory is our best explanation for this. In the same way that gravity is certain that things fall, and that the theory of Newtonian gravity tries to explain this fact. The theory of gravity is more or less perfected does not affect the fact that things fall. In fact, the current theory of the elution is still incomplete, but it is thousands of times better than it was in the time of Darwin. Yet the state of our theory of evolution does not affect the observed fact that species evolve over time.

The evolution is controversial. Scientists themselves do not agree on its validity

Creationists are closed in band to the fact that evolutionary biologists have found theories explaining minor aspects of evolution. Discredit evolution by discarding it is like using wheeled cars because manufacturers do not agree on the design of the tread. Practically no scientific doubt today the fact of evolution or the validity of evolutionary theory in its entirety. Creationists often publish lists of scientists who reject evolution claim. These lists are probably true. In the United States most people are creationist in one color or another. But the scientific community has a very different opinion. Most polls show that between 95 and 98% of scientists accept the theory of evolution.

Evolution is not falsifiable, so it is not science

One aspect of science is that you can refute. If we can run a test based on a proposition and that test fails, then we have rejected that proposition. This is the basic operation of science. Something that can not be subjected to a test and be discarded, as the existence of God can not be science. But creationists do not see this side of the argument, only applied to evolution. But evolution can be easily discarded. The evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane became famous joke that had, stating that when a rabbit fossil Precambrian age are, evolution rule.

The evolution is itself a religion

This argument has gained in popularity in recent years, in which creationists have underpinned their positions decorating them with words that sound scientific, such as intelligent design. They try to convince us that their position has scientific basis, and change the tide calling evolution and religion to mock those who worship Darwin as his prophet. This argument is only valid for use in people who know little or no history of Darwin. The religion is based on the fact worship a higher being and divine, and that nothing in evolutionary theory nor is there an evolutionary church.

The evolution can not be observed

Part of what is needed to validate a theory is to try and observe the results. Although there are evolutionary phenomena that can be directly observed as some experiments with fruit flies, most of the things that explains the evolution occurred in periods of millions of years. Obviously, no one has so much patience to watch the evolution. This is true. But here that is misunderstood observation. There are many observations in science in which you have to use the evidence of an event to supplement direct observation of fact. Certain chemical reactions, particle physics, theoretical physics, are examples of fields of science in which we resort to this type of observation. The theory of evolution was originally developed to explain the evidence obtained from observation of the fossil record.

There are fossils of transit

If the ancestor of the modern horse evolved from its predecessor Miohippus Mesohippus, then surely there will be traffic between the two fossil species showing common features, or perhaps an intermediate species. I have taken the example of the horse, because evolutionary branch that is extremely well documented. Creationists claim that there are no such fossils transit, but they exist, and in abundance. To say something, or is intentionally lying, or that do it refuses to be documented. Lay people have only to visit the wikipedia to find numerous fossils of transit.

However, the fossil record is sufficiently massive so that gaps between developmental stages of the species. These absences are used by creationists to proclaim that there are no fossils of transit and that evolutionary theory is a fallacy.

Evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of any isolated thermodynamic system tends to increase over time. In a crude way, this law can be explained with an example. If we put a glass of hot water in one room, the heat energy that glass water will dissipate in the room until the temperature is equalized with the environment, but the energy released is impossible to send her back to the glass.

Creationists argue that if a body had been formed by evolution, this would entail a decrease in entropy. Order from disorder. They claim that this is impossible without divine intervention. But organisms are not isolated systems. To exchange energy with other elements of the environment, the second law of thermodynamics is not relevant. Countless natural and artificial processes produce order from disorder in open systems using energy and foreign matter.

Evolution can not create complex structures with irreducible complexity

This argument was popularized by Michael Behe, a biochemist evangelist, who coined the term irreducible complexity. Take a complex structure as it is an eyeball, and eliminate part of it to simulate a reverse evolution, and see that the structure stops working. As a result, an eyeball can not have evolved by natural selection, since this structure without one of its parts does not work and does not provide any evolutionary advantage. The concept seems to make sense, but is based on a tremendous misconception. The animal world is full of types of structures to enable vision. Some structures are more complex and simpler ones, all with irreducible complexity and all are likely to improve evolutionarily.

It is highly unlikely that complex life forms evolve for change

Is it possible that a tornado pass by a dump and a 747 mountain by chance? The same argument was used for centuries by William Paley, only he used the simile of a pocket watch. Such a device had to be created by someone and not be the result of chance. This statement is the result of ignorance of the extraordinary power of evolution from simple to complex structures. Once generational mutation and natural selection are understood, and how irreducibly complex structures evolve, there is nothing implausible in evolutionary theory. The bottom-up design (from simple to complex) is not only likely, it is inevitable, and almost always produces better designs an intelligent designer could create.

Evolution can not create new information

According to this argument, the new information required to create new species can not originate spontaneously. This information can come only from an intelligent creator. This statement falls soon, because in fact a mutation is a generation of new information. Not all information is good. Most is useless. It is what is called genetic drift. But occasionally, one of these mutations gives a benefit to the organism that has mutated. This benefit is immediately absorbed by the species and evolutionarily spread.

The evolution does not explain some aspects of life and culture

In other words. Evolutionary theory does not explain everything, so it is completely false. Evolutionary biologists are the first to recognize that there are aspects of life that we have yet to understand. That gets us everything we have learned is false. There creationists that refer to things that have nothing to do with the origin of life and specialization, such as the Big Bang, or the age of the Earth, and as the evolutionary theory does not explain these aspects is false. Only theories can explain the observed phenomena that try to explain, but can not be used for a purpose for which they were not designed.

Hawking: "God did not create the universe"

British scientist Stephen Hawking says in his new book, The Grand Design (The Grand Design), the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, that God created the universe and that the most current scientific theories become redundant figure of a creator. The book, which the British newspaper The Times ahead of today excerpts, notes: "Since there is a law such as gravity, the universe itself-and indeed did-could be created out of nothing themselves. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something, there is the universe that we exist. " Therefore, he adds, "it is not necessary to invoke God" so that there is cosmos.

In his most popular work, A Brief History of Time (A Brief History of Time), a text of disclosure about the universe and its evolution, Hawking, a theoretical physicist internationally recognized for their contributions in matters of cosmology, black holes and quantum gravity, It suggested that "if we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason because then we would know the mind of God." Now he argues that, just as Darwinism eliminated the need for a creator in the field of biology, new theories of physics make redundant the role of a creator of the universe. The last book, written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow, will be released on 9 September, a week before the Pope's visit to Britain.

Existing arguments suggest that Hawking has broken with his earlier view about religion, when maintained that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang. Now it stands, for example, the discovery of the first extrasolar planet in 1992, helped to dismantle the vision of Isaac Newton that the universe could not emerge from chaos but was created by God. That finding "makes the precise conditions of our planetary system-the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar-mass are much less showy and not at all convincing evidence that the Earth was carefully designed to satisfy humans, "write Hawking and his colleague in the new book.

British physicist has completed 68 years and suffering for decades a serious neurological disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which paralyzed his body almost completely. Due to an emergency tracheotomy that was performed a few years ago he lost the ability to speak and expressed with great difficulty through a computer that handles your eyes and artificial voice synthesizer.

He hawking occupied from 1979 until his recent retirement, the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University, which had been its historical colleague Isaac Newton.

The legendary chupacabra is just a mangy coyote

El chupacabras has ashen skin, prominent fangs and ridges on the back. According to legend stretching from the US to Southern Cone of America, attacking goats and chickens to drink his blood. But Sharman Hoppes, veterinary medicine at Texas A & M University, the mythical creature is just a coyote with mange.

Days ago, Hoppes received a call from Hood County Sheriff in northern Texas. They had found a creature near a school and the neighbors called the police, who struck the animal. "Suspected it was a chupacabra" comantaba Hoppes shaking his head.
First, Hoppes studied anatomy: "We look his head, ears, teeth and knew it was some kind of canine. If it was a coyote or coyote hybrid dog or coyote and wolf is difficult to determine, given their status, "he says. The skin disease was evident. "We see how the skin is thicker, wrinkled and hyperpigmented, abnormally dark with this proliferation in the ears". The skin scraping confirmed that the animal was suffering from severe mange, caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The vet says that the animal had long without food, scabies weakened him and affected his ability to hunt. The back muscle was consumed, creating small ridges on the back.

Hoppes sent the body to complete Pathology for necropsy. There reviewed the internal organs and found more mites. Finally, they took blood and tissue samples for DNA analysis.

Remove the legend of chupacabras can help these scientists to go further. According Hoppes, he is interested in finding out "why this animal has developed scabies so severely. A dog with scabies is not like this. " The analysis of the adrenal glands reveal whether the child suffered immunodeficiency.

Teeth in the freezer

It is the first time analyzes of these whole animal. For years there have been sightings of chupacabras assumptions about the US-Mexico border. However, Hoppes said, "who claimed to have captured one is reluctant to give it away for investigation, only send pieces of skin or a tooth. As the woman who claims to have two or three, I think in your freezer. "

The woman he refers is called Phyllis Canion. Three years ago a similar creature found on his ranch and froze. Today, the self-shirts Lady of the Chupacabras sells on its website with the slogan 2007, the year of the Chupacabras.

On reports of goats and chickens bled, Hoppes said that "kill this animal bites, not sucking blood. I see no relationship, I do not know if there will be vampires in the area. " Your reflection is not far-fetched: vampire bats live in Texas. A few of them, a mangy coyote and a rancher with a freezer enough to have a chupacabra. And 20 more dollars, the shirt.