Anybody who still thinks buhari and APC are fighting corruption after all the denial of campaign promises needs a brain transplant with a chimp because technically that is the only campaign promise they seem to be throwing around

odijeks:
Ever heard atheists argue that there just is not enough evidence to prove the existence of God? Some go as far as saying "God is omnipresent and is everywhere, then show me God in order to believe he exists". Well, the bible says God is a Spirit so I can't literally show you God (I haven't seen him either) but that doesn't prove that he doesn't exist. Simply because I can't show you air doesn't mean that it doesn't exist in the room you occupy right now. However, I can show you the influence of this 'invisible' air when it knocks down a 'visible' object or flips open the pages of a book. here is an attempt to candidly show that God has made himself evident for man to perceive.

1. God reveals Himself through nature
If you are a nature-lover or have ever taken the time to appreciate the beauty of the natural world around you, you can see the handiwork that points to an incredibly intelligent creator and designer. Look at the beauty of the sunset, the awe you experience watching the earth's polar lights in the sky (aurora), the glory of the night sky with all the stars, the dawning of the day with the blades of grass glistening like diamonds as the sunlight bounces off tiny water droplets of dew, you would ask yourself questions like "would mindless and impersonal physical forces or a chain of chance-like events need or care to make something this beautiful that man can appreciate?" One would have to be willfully ignorant to attribute all the intricacies found in nature to random chaotic events. A close look at nature reveals an intricate level of design that points undeniably to an intelligent Designer (Psalms 19:1-4). Nevertheless, some still live in denial.

2. Our Planet Earth.
The perfection of the Earth in relation to it's support of the billions of life in it never seizes to amaze. Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life. This is attributed to it's perfect size and corresponding gravitational pull which causes it to be able to hold the right amount of oxygen and nitrogen adequate for life. If the earth were larger, it would contain an unreasonable amount of free hydrogen in its atmosphere. If it were smaller, it may not have an atmosphere large enough to protect the planet from solar and cosmic radiations from space. Still think this is co-incidence ? Let's look at the Earth's position in space as well.

NASA places the diameter of our solar system at a humongous 288,000,000,000 km. Dispersed within this wide space are 8 planets (including Earth). The distance from Earth to the sun is at about 150,000,000 km which is the perfect distance for Earth to be inhabitable. If the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would freeze. Any closer and we would burn up. With 8 planets dispersed within such a wide range of our solar system's diameter, you can calculate for yourself the probability of luckily finding a planet at that exact distance from the sun (that is not too far and not too close), then you decide for yourself if we were just ridiculously lucky or it was placed there by intent. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.

3. Complexity of living organisms
From all I learned in biology classes, it would require an unreasonable level of faith to believe that highly complex biochemical reactions like oxidation phosphorylation, photosynthesis, enzymatic breakdown of ingested food, our amazing immune system, transmission of nervous impulses through the body, e.t.c, resulted out of mere chance. Even if I came into the world yesterday, I can't look at the twin towers and attribute them to forces of nature, thinking to myself "the wind, after several years, must have pushed all these blocks into place". These are amazingly complex and inter-linked reactions going on in us daily of which I'm sure that the best of scientists can't think up or create such a system so complex and independent. Still, scientists wouldn't admit the intelligence behind these processes. Let's look at blood clot formation for example. The reason why animal's don't bleed out till death after they get a cut is simply because of this complexly designed process. A cascade of events involving 12 different factors ensues when a blood vessel is broken. This linked events all lead to the formation of a clot at the site of bleeding in order to occlude the opening in the vessel. If just 1 of these 12 factors were missing, blood clot formation would be impossible and it would be a normal phenomenon for one to bleed to death after having an accident as minor as a paper cut. Yet all 12 factors (not 7,8 or 11) are currently present in the blood to initiate this reaction when needed. What's even more amazing is that these factors are present in your blood as you read this, yet they don't start forming the clots within the blood vessels because that would potentially kill you. They only initiate this process when you have a cut. That's just amazing if you ask me. This is just an example out of thousands of intelligent systems in nature. Do you really think such systems were built by chance or a highly intelligent being?

4. Theist Scientists
Most atheists often have this wrong ideology of "God VS Science". This is totally absurd because God himself is a scientist (the best at that) as we've seen in the above mentioned points. God made all scientific and universal laws and was in fact scientific in all his creation. God was actually leaving clues of his existence by showing his brilliance and intelligence in the works of nature and his intent was for man to search them out and acknowledge him (Proverbs 25:2). Many of the smartest human geniuses that have worked the earth were theist. These were really smart people who had knowledge of scientific laws and based most of their works on facts and scientific evidences. Yet, they didn't think it foolish to believe in a superior intelligent being. Why? Because they couldn't help but recognize God's signatures dispersed in the details along the quest of their research works. Some of these theist scientists include: Gregor Mendel, Galileo Galilei, Louis Pasteur, Michael Faraday, Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal and even famous Albert Einstein to name a few. The more we go deeper in scientific discoveries, the more of God we see. It's however unfortunate and sad that most current scientists have refused to acknowledge this glaring truth (2 Corinthians 4:4).

5. God exists because he impresses this fact in the heart of men
The bible says the truth of God has been made known to man instinctively, for God put this knowledge in their hearts. Yet, some push the truth away from themselves (Romans 1:18,19). This shows that God made it unavoidable for man to see or feel his existence. God did not leave us to wander alone, aimlessly hoping that somehow we would stumble across the truth, which He intends for us to recognize. God wants us to find Him; therefore, He reaches out to us. Sometimes you wonder why the atheist goes through so much trouble just to discredit the bible or refute the idea that a God he doesn't even believe in exists. The atheist probably doesn't yet realize that the reason the topic of God weighs so heavily on his mind is simply because God is impressing it. God wants to be known. He made man unique from other creatures with the intent that we would seek and know him. He not only surrounded us with evidence of himself but He keeps the question of his existence squarely before us. God is presently nudging the hearts of people so that they might realize their sinful condition, the inevitable coming judgment, and their need of a Savior (John 16:8-11). The underlying reason atheists are bothered by people believing in God is because God is actively seeking them.



I know many atheist would go through this post in order to refute the ideas highlighted, but I'm not here to disprove atheism. I'm just here to cause the reader to really think for himself in an unbiased and neutral manner on these things. Regardless of what you may have heard, the truth the bible teaches is that God intensely loves you unconditionally. He is not going to love you more if you convert to a believer. He already loves you intensely, that's why he was willing to come in form of man and personally receive the punishment on the cross for the sins you've committed in the past or would ever commit in the future (John 3:16; Romans 5:3-8 ). The misconception that God punishes people in hell because they sin or refuse to love him is not the truth of the bible. Rather, the bible teaches that though we are guilty of many sins, God justifies us anyways and gives us eternal life if we accept and receive it through faith in Christ's sacrifice (Romans 5:16). The reason why anyone would go to hell fire is not because of this person's numerous sins. No!, it has been established that everyone (including the Christian) is born a sinner and commits sin. Yet, People are only judged guilty because they refused to receive the justification and eternal life freely given to them by Christ. It would really be shameful and agonizingly regretful to see yourself in hell not because you were morally the worst person on earth, but because you were too prideful to receive the gift of life that was already given to you freely by Christ. Choose life today if you haven't. God loves you.

OP nice write up, hope they can rethink their stand. I can't believe a scientist after going to space and witnessing the degree of organization and exactness on display will still come back and say it all happened by chance.

I mean when someone enters a room and finds the room organized and tidy the person would ask who is responsible and not what expanded or exploded

kevinberry:
If god is all powerful,he can't be all good,and if he is all good,then he can't be all powerful..

I refuse to believe in a god who already know the result of future events,but still went ahead to perform such action..

If god exist,we won't be in this mess that we are today...

I did not just wake up and became an atheist,I became one the very moment I started questioning all what I was told and read about..I think differently

At the bold

Your analogy is similar to one who saw a bashed Mercedes car and blamed the Mercedes company rather than addressing the issue or looking at the situation critically.

God has given everyone the right to choose for himself no one is under duress to serve God so don't go around blaming God for people making the wrong choices.

cktheluckyman:


so foreign insurgents are attacking farmers in the south and the Fulani cattle rearers want us to give them grazing lands in the south to curb the menace? so how does giving out grazing lands solve the problem since the Fulani herdsmsn are not responsible for the attacks like you claim.

I was about asking that question b4 I saw your post, why then are we talking about grazing reserves for foreigners then?
This guys think we are fools right?

ganisucks:

#REALTALK
David Cameron, can't stand fakers, A̶̲̥̅̊Ω̴̩̩̩̥D̶̲̥̅̊ says it as it is. He sees Buhari as the biggest Fraud in history. That's why I like him, he says it as it is, irrespective ☀̤̣̈̇f who's ox is gored.

Buhari dey fall both hand and leg. No iota of diplomacy

Says the president who told the whole world that his people are criminals

OP they are coming for you. Prepare to be tagged IPOB, wailer etc...

Nice piece though, its not like we didn't know who Buhari was its just that Hypocrisy was too much for folks to accept the truth.

OP don't waste your time Katsina will be coming to take what belongs to them because the oil in Lagos is theirs

One mumu go still come here shout IPOB, but God pass them

DaBullIT:
First of all it aint happening


Because they themselves do not have peace or one accord , everybody is pursuing his /her own selfish agenda

Also i expect some Yeebos to come here and say please leave Ijaw, Edo, Idoma out of your rubbish, which proves my point above


Finally any tree proving to be stubborn, nothing a bull dozer can not do


If some people are bent on destroying this country , i am sure US would lend Nigeria just one nuke


The best solution but i pray it doesn't come to that

htwoow

US borrow you nuke? You think say na 1967 wey Britain go do ashawo for various world Powers like Russia and Isreal before dem finally defeat Biafra?

Guy wake up from your dream e be like say you don piss for bed sef

PiccoloBrunelli:
No shakes. So is it ur favorite Marvel movie?

So far yeah, the way everything played out I'm anxious to know how avengers 3 will turn out

PiccoloBrunelli:
I'm team Ironman actually and you didn't have to ruin the movie for me with that massive spoiler. Damn you bro.

Ouch! Sorry. The movie is interesting a lot happened and in the end that spoiler won't matter ish trust me. Nice choice on team Ironman though

Joshuabase:


Samething applies to space but in this case, space is the one increasing instead of us shrinking. And if space is increasing, we would ask - what is it expanding into?

All laws of mathematics and physics permit for space e to expand into itself if, it is truly infinite and not bounded by anything. And in an infinite system, anything is possible if a probability exists for it.

Sorry but I couldn't help but notice these two comments you made.
In your post you explained the singularity to be a point in Space but in your later comment you are now pointing out that space is the one expanding which means in simple terms the singularity came with the space.

Hence permit me to ask how did the space in which the singularity expanded into come about?
Because from your earlier explanation of a singularity you ve already assumed the existence of space

Joshuabase:
[center][/center] in the beginning was a singularity. (A point in space where an finite amount of matter is compressed to a infinite density. And yes black holes have singularities in them. Astrophysicists are obsessed with black holes because understanding them is understanding how the universe began) and this singularity was infinitely dense and extremely hot. So hot that the universe still radiates heat energy from the big bang.

PiccoloBrunelli:
Team Captain America

Four of your team members ended up in jail while Barnes lost his arm and was almost killed by Ironman

wirinet:


You are so ignorant, i really feel sorry for you.
Scientific speculations are based on interpretations of observable data. Scientist say speculations because there can never be 100% certainty as nobody was present to actually view and record the big bang or the primordial soup. They only have clues left by these events to work on.

Some scientists speculate that life might have been kick started on earth through meteors because meteorites that have been found on earth (including meteorites and comets studied in space) are found to contain organic compounds.

see this report;



As for evidence of the big bang, a kind nairalander has already taken the effort to educate ignorant peoples like you, by explaining what the theory really means and evidences for it. Take advantage and learn something new.
- https://www.nairaland.com/3080255/physics-seun-understanding-scientific-theories#45221422


Your faith that the universe and life was spoken into existence by an old Jewish man from his throne is not speculation based on any thing, it is solely based on blind faith and wishful thinking.
Every society on earth also has it own blind faith explanation of the beginning of life and the universe, it is part of humans highly active imagination. Every unexplained phenomenon is attributed to a god. The moon, sun and planets were once gods, worshiped by millions of people. Thunder and lightning were once gods.

This statement of yours would qualify for the most senseless statement in history,
your said that, solely by your Faith your God created the world, He owns it and He makes the rules. You now paradoxically state that there's no need to prove His existence. This is even worse than the king wearing invisible cloths no one can see, except the tailor who made the cloths. At the end people will discover that the king is actually naked and the tailor had lied all along.

You have desperation written all over your post. Let me ask you is anybody forcing you to believe in the God? If no then why all this long epistle. You can go ahead and believe in your dumb theory it doesn't change anything. Your theory lacks evidence its all speculations and it has contributed nothing in the advancement of science because it works backwards.
So take a chill pill and stop acting as if the mere mention of God gives you arthritis

KAG:


Don't be daft, there was no slipping in: ERVs, in the genetic context point to shared ancestry. It's foolish to think they have anything to do with the origin of life. You are trying really hard to avoid the evidence, but it's not going away.



Yes living organisms share common ancestry. In the same vein, humans and modern apes share recent common ancestry. There's strong evidence for that shared ancestry between humans and modern apes. Shared ERVs is one such genetic evidence. Feel free to discuss that evidence... although you've been doing your best to discuss anything but that.


We haven't reached an impasse on ERVs; we've reached an impasse on your inability to grasp simple concepts (e.g. what ERVs show, and that evolution and abiogenesis are different things). I won't hold my breath on anything else.

What is there to talk about again? All living organisms according to your theory share a common ancestry and here you are with evidence which I can use to show that dogs, birds etc are not related to humans and apes in the form of ERVs and yet you still see it as an evidence for evolution.
Its an impasse to me and there's nothing to talk about again.

KAG:


Unchanged response in general.

"We were talking about the theory of evolution - or, at least, trying to talk about it. The theory of evoultion doesn't deal with how life came into existence. You've been told that not only by me, but by Cloudgoddess and CoolUsername."



So much for that. Offer remains, if you want to discuss abiogenesis ("How did life or rather all life forms originate or come into existence?", then start a new thread and tag me. However, this time I can't guarantee I'll be able to respond much, if at all - more work coming on to my plate.

...back to the theory of evolution, then.

Hehe! I see what you did there! Taking advantage of the disconnect between Abiogenesis and the Evolution theory to slip in the ERVs as evidence because that's the only way it can stand. Believe you me I didn't see that coming, but the thing is my knowledge of evolution says that all organisms are related and have a common ancestor, I could get a lot of links on that here is also one of Charly Darwins' quote from his book origin of species
"...its a truly wonderful fact...That all animals and all plants throughout all TIME and SPACE should be related to each other..."
In otherwards they should have a common ancestor. Perhaps there's been an upgrade who knows will check it out in my spare time.

Anyway I believe we have reached an impasse on the ERVs if and when I decide to talk about abiogenesis I will open a thread as you said.

wirinet:


Nobody can really be sure, everyone is just speculating. But based on scientific reasoning, life (self duplication and sustenance) got started from simple inorganic compounds. Some even speculated life got kick started from outer space thought meteors containing organic compounds. One explanations i am certain is wrong is that life was started by a Jewish old man, using Hebrew words (which ironically is his begotten son) to magically poof all life ( from virus to mammals and from fungi to plants) into existence all at once.

You are funny, really you are
So your speculations are scientific but that of the creationist is magical, hmmm!
So meteors containing organic compounds and life starting from inorganic compounds are science-based but a belief in the existence of an Intelligent designer is magical?
I mean you exhibit even more faith believing in the big bang theory as well as abiogenesis than you can even imagine.

When I tell you by Faith that God created the world He owns it and He makes the rules and there's no need to prove His existence, you will quickly jump in and say its magic but yours is science even though its all speculations and yet you forgot that the way you just explained it is the way one would explain a Myth. Very classy

Halsalas:
Captain America is my one of favorite documentary

Indeed

PiccoloBrunelli:
The most anticipated movie ever premiers tomorrow (tonight if you play your cards right).

In Captain America: Civil War, one year after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, an act regulating superhuman activity fractures the Avengers into opposing factions, one led by Steve Rogers(Captain America) and another by Tony Stark(Team Ironman). Which team do you support?





I'm #TeamIronMan

Team Ironman, looks more I don't know Fly

KAG:


We were talking about the theory of evolution - or, at least, trying to talk about it. The theory of evoultion doesn't deal with how life came into existence. You've been told that not only by me, but by Cloudgoddess and CoolUsername.

That was a slip of the fingers you knew what I meant. Let me rephrase
How did life or rather all life forms originate or come into existence?

KAG:


Where ancestor is not a singular organism, but a population. So, you're good on shared ERVs?

Are we still talking about thesame evolution theory? If I may ask according to your evolution theory how did life come into existence?

We all know this wouldn't have happened if only Buhari had stood up and strongly condemned the actions of the herdsmen as well as taking actions to stop them. With everywhere heated up, the tolerance that would have let this act by the aboki slide is no longer there.

At no point should the president of a country give the masses the impression that self defense is their only means of survival.

KAG:



Nah, that's not what the theory of evolution states. Evolution is "change in allelle frequencies of a population of organisms. When talking about shared ancestry, it isn't just limited to human ancestry. However, in this instance we're talking about a set of commonalities found in the genes of primates. Commonalities that point to shared ancestry in primates. It's strong evidence for evolution. The red herring of "oh, but let's talk about everything else" hasn't changed that.

Are you saying that Evolution theory does not state that all of life forms have a common ancestor?

AnotherSeun:


i hardly reply low IQ replies like urs, but wanna make this an exception..
1st, for you as a female to have written stuff like shows ur level of idiocy..
2ndly,,like thats not enuf, for this to have come from a ugly foppery like you.doesnt really surprise my understanding..
continue wif this behaviour my dear,, yu will meet ur doom sumday..
just try and do this with ur type and definitely not me...
if yu comment reasonably on ma post next time even tho am wrong,, i will accept but this is definitely absurd

READ MY POST AGAIN AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND ITS NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

I couldn't help but notice you didn't answer her question but rather resorted to ad hominem. Let me ask the question again was it the self acclaimed messiah that told the hausa man to stab him?

And please for your earlier post don't mistake TOLERANCE for PEACE.
just because a section of the country tolerated the violence oozing out from a particular region does not mean the country was peaceful

ISpiksDaTroof:


Nnamdi Azikiwe and Igbo leaders actually insisted on ONE NIGERIA, the North and the West wanted nothing to do with it.

Before Nnamdi Azikiwes' hypocrisy, black mentality Lugards' stupidity and greed existed.

And that north and west thing I really don't want to go into that boring, annoying history

fowowe411:
Aba boys can take care of themselves? seriously? it is high time we stopped promoting tribal wars. All Nigerians are not happy with the recent activities of the fulanis lately but i don't think we should compound it the more. Will the slaughter aba boys also take care of the Igbo traders in Sokoto, Kano and others? please let's look n beyond our own personal safety because if it should degenerate to something else...hhhmmmm!

Don't worry there will be no reprisal. After this everyone will go back to pretending we are one nigeria.



Jokes Apart I blame Lugard for this, bringing a group together without their consent even though you knew they can't coexist.
I then blame the black mentality for always defending Lugards stupidity

kissval1388:
As I dey gombe state, make I quickly go pack my clothes. e be like say Na Cameroon or chad sure pass.
before I say make i go east, I must pass like 3 northern state.














God pls let there no reprisal. how person go take escape? I dont want to die in the north.

You will not die, the Lord is your Shepherd

maxzzo1:

Yesterday if not d wisdom of God maybe there could being similar thing in Owerri...imagine a Fulani drawing out matchet nebi die him dey find so...becos a gal say kai and his cows ran back...this is foolishness

Its really awkward that this guys can't respect themselves in anoda persons land. This is the last thing a southerner will do in the north. Really don't know who they think they are. Hope the issue is resolved

KAG:


The hell are you on about? This is not that difficult to understand. What do you mean "accommodate the Hominidae parent and grand parent"? What test? This isn't about how far we can take the ancestors of primates - it is a red herring, at best. It is about showing the evidence for shared ancestry. That's what the markers in the respective genes indicate. If we can find shared genetic markers in humans and modern apes, then the parsimonous explanation is given by the theory of evolution.

You are missing the point. Ancestry is a continuous thing you can't just stop at the hominids and say ERV has served as a proof of evolution. Evolution theory itself says that all living organisms have one ancestor which is the autotroph that came out of the prebiotic soup by accident, so when you talk about shared ancestry it shouldn't be limited to just the hominids.

Mind you I'm not in anyway questioning the process of ERVs and if it works for the hominids cause it does.

The fact that when you compare the hominids with the canines with regards to the ERVs and get a different outcome implies that it can't be a proof of evolution. Its very much straight forward because in the long run they will have a shared ancestry.

Don't know how else to explain it to you, if you can't see this then...

Man of the match- Own goal from mars

Lucremoy:

dey don't have to be equals.. any top English team with enough determination can match any of them..

Epl teams are average forget all those competitive brouhaha, nxt season Leicester and Tothenham are going out in UCL group stage with arsenal probably scrapping thru just watch and see