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Surely, this is ridiculous, the Chadians will never dare attack us so brazenly, that would be a direct provocation that they cannot hope to win, even with the backing of France. The UN will not allow it, neither will the AU and ECOWAS.

MightySparrow:
I always laugh when people want to worship science. As a scientist myself, I discovered nothing is absolutely exact reason for search and research. Theory simply means the true nature of a subject matter is not known. There are so many uncertaintties in science especially astronomy and issues of creation. There is another side to evolution theory known as Creationist Theory championed by one Humphery. Any interest person could google it.

I beg to differ, scientific theories are principles, based on empirical observations and experimentations, that explain or attempt to explain a phenomenon. Theories are meant to explain how things work, and that is what has driven human technological advancements so far.


As for the humpherys theories, I have come across a number of his theories in my research on young earth creationism; and I daresay, the man is deluded. His ideas have no scientific basis.



PS: Worshipping science?, that is indeed a most ridiculous notion.

Ozonification of the earth's atmosphere helped to reduce the earths temperature.


However, there were 5 mass extinction events that occured within several millions of years. I won't go into details on that, but of all the extinction events, the Odovician-Silurian and Permian-Triassic extinction events were the deadliest; infact, the P-T extinction event wiped out 96% of all living species.



There are two hypothesis on the extinction events;
1. An asteroid from space collided with the earth's surface and drilled into the earth's core, expelling molten magma with astronomical force, this magma travel high into the atmosphere(sort of like a gaysier) and then fall back to the earth and cools, thereby warming the earth to an alarming degree and anihilating almost all life.
2. The volcanic eruptions(from the areas that are now the present day siberian trap or mexican gap) combines with depletion of oxygen(anoxia) to destroy almost all the living forms on the planet.

AntiNormal:
Ah. The creation of the cosmos... One of my least favorite topics... *Cue tired sigh

Why?, the subject captivates me.

DNA strands were formed after complementary strands of RNA interracted together over millions of years. The RNA strand carried genetic information based on their basic survival, hence the organisms that arose from the translation of the mRNA(messanger RNA) were extremely resilent to the harsh conditions of the early earth. Life first existed in the primordial soup(the sea).



Bacteria and Archea were formed from RNA strands; the formation of cyanobacteria caused the "oxygenic explosion" in which oxygen became prerequisite for life on the planet due to photosynthetic activities of the new cyanobacteria. Organisms that couldn't survive in the presence of oxygen were wiped out(at least, to a large extent).This is the beginning of evolution.



Over millions of years, Eukarya,algae and protozoa were formed. Multicellular organisms that evolved due to changes in environment, specific adaptations occured.



As a microbiologist, I can confirm that micro-organisms were the first inhabitants of the earth.

Earth was formed millions of years after the creation of the universe; shortly after which a giant mars-sized planetoid collided with the nascent earth, expelling chunks of the earth into space in the process. The spatial chunks were however locked into the earth's orbit by the earth's gravitational pull; these chunks later coalesced to form the earth's moon.



It is scientifically believed that the early earth was uninhabitable due to the fact that there was no protection against extreme solar radiation, however, the explosive event caused by the planetoid colliding with the earth brought about an interraction between certain elements(including Nitrogen,Phosphorus and Sulphur) to form basic nucleotides, which over millions of years assembled into basic RNA(Ribonucleic Acids) strands. Organic matter from the colliding planetoid may have aided the process. This marked the beginning of life.

Question:
Why has a similar sequence of reactions not occurred in other planets of our solar system?

It is generally scientifically accepted that the universe came into existence after the event of the popular "Big Bang", at least, for now. The explosive reaction of the what I fondly refer to as the "supreme cause"; the supreme cause is the entity that singularly initiated the big bang.


Within immeasurable nanoseconds, the reaction expanded and cooled, planets and stars were formed,collided,destroyed and reformed in seconds. Expansion occured rapidly, and the universe spread with a velocity proportional to the force of the big bang reaction; which is incomprehensible. Hence, the universe became unquantifiable.



In this hypothesis, the most glaring questions I see are:

1. If the universe didn't exist prior to the big bang event,meaning there was no space or dark matter, then in what medium did the "supreme cause" or "initial entity" occur?

2. What was the cause of the supreme cause or initial entity?

I want to make this a series, because I think this may be a very long article; hence the need to break it into comprehensible series. I am envisaging this as a sort of debate, therefore, comments and feedbacks are required to keep the discussion going.


Now, what I want to ponder is the origin of the universe(and subsequent origin of all life forms) in relation to the existence of a God.


Personally, I believe that there is a God, at least, that is currently the only way to explain the existence of the supernatural and also what I call the "supreme cause". Now, I am neither a christian or muslim fanatic, only a curious young university kid trying to find out why the universe exists, how it was made and how it has evolved.



I will invite a few people to the debut, and I hope we can all compare scientific and empirical logic in the course of this discussion.

HopefulLandlord
Seun
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AntiNormal
Optimist1997

ideologies:
all your methodologies are evil, repent bro.
And it is already being implemented secretly, lemme keep quite self
Reducing population is against God's will so it will never work.

Even with all the evil policies the world population has hit 7billion

Evil will never win

Well, that was just an hypothetical situation.
In a scenario where the population becomes overbloated, something would have to be done. The planet must be saved,and overpopulation may eventually contribute to the destruction of the earth; hence, measures would have to be taken to control the geometric growth of the human population. Its as simple as that.

Good development. Next thing is to create a weaponized version of it and then mass produce, at least we can augment our pitifully outdated and scanty combat aircrafts with a bevy of advanced armed drones.



Better intelligence gathering with an added advantage of precision strikes.

It depend on the perspective and on what side of history you are viewing from.


But I believe that there is no perfect form of governance, sometimes dictators are required because only strong men can create good times.


Add Julius Caesar of Rome, Genghis Khan of Mongolia, Lee Kuan Yiu of Singapore, Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso, Paul Kagame of Rwanda et al to your list.

Genetical engineering and biotechnology could do the trick; food items can be modified in such a way that consumption of those foods would reduce human fertility.

Vaccines and some drugs could also be modified to impact the specific DNA sequences responsible for human fertility.

Homosexuality can be legalized.

Propaganda and mass reorientation; citizens can be sensitized right from nursery to avoid giving birth to more than one or two child(ren), it could be a part of the educational syllabus. Religious institutions can also be encouraged to teach doctrines that supports few children.

Never knew that the police needed jets in the first place, except its a sort of federal special unit.

BUHARIISCURSED:
Adeke

Are you etsako?

CAMNEWTON4PRES:
do something.

Your sheer arrogance is disgustingly nauseating, you,a citizen of a dictator controlled facist state,logging on to a Nigerian forum to pour out those misguided statements about us shows that our government has indeed done us a great injustice.





I don't blame you, I blame our clueless leaders, I am not normally this crude,but I do hope they get punished for running this country to the ground.



You should continue to hope,for your sake, that Nigeria does not one day develop aggressive military ambitions.

I have read a lot on ken-Saro Wiwa,MOSOP and the Ogoni 9. What seems to be a matter of mystery is the true story behind the Ogoni 4, were they corrupt elders or were they peaceful ogoni patriots?.


Let us discuss.

Nltaliban:


I have nothing to say, I'll just keep hoping

Can you share your score?

shakaz:
90/200 . Even with all my Precocious GRE preparations...hmmm

The tests were bordering on radioactive exigency

BARRIKADE:
102/200.
I haven't had this weird feeling of exciting disappointment in a long time.
but just in case any of the JAMB higher-ups are reading this......do not, I repeat- DO NOT under any circumstance employ these guys to set test questions for you.
There'll be a 1.3% pass rate that year.

Lol.... true, these guys will cause jambites to revolt against the government.

Aggregriate score = 94/200


I have never had this much blow to my intellect before....kudos to the organizers, you guys really made me crank my brain, something I haven't done for a while now. My routine is usually to listen in class, scan through my notes, kill the practicals(lab work) and breeze through the exams....this Xfire tests has really engaged me, I feel oddly rejuvenated, just only disappointed I didn't win.