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[b]IMPORTANT: CLARIFYING TERMINOLOGY There are some terms that are so widely misunderstood, especially as they are used in the scientific world, that I thought it important to clarify them. FACT Something that is observable such as a rock, a planet, an animal or an event, for example, steam is emitted when water boils. Generally, observations are not elevated to "facts" until they are sufficiently verified that we can be quite sure we are not mistaken. CONJECTURE An initial guess or hunch which attempts to explain why facts are as they are. For example, we may observe the "fact" of mountains and a conjecture will suggest how they might have been formed. HYPOTHESIS A refined conjecture. An hypothesis is a possible explanation for facts. It must be stated in an unambiguous way and in such a way as to be falsifiable. It is unreasonable to accept an hypothesis as probably true until it has survived multiple attempts to be falsified and has accumulated considerable supporting evidence. A simple hypothesis might be, "Light enables plants to grow". The growth of plants can be measured whilst varying their exposure to light. If plants can be shown to grow without, light this hypothesis would be falsified. LAW An hypothesis EXPLAINS facts whilst a law DESCRIBES facts mathematically. Laws have to be extremely well tested and unfalsified. For example, Ohm's Law for electric circuits states: I = V / R (current = voltage divided by resistance). An hypothesis would attempt to explain why this law is true. THEORY A very well substantiated explanation for a wide range of facts. A theory will usually integrate and generalise a large number of hypotheses. Theories are the highest achievements of science. Examples are atomic theory, evolutionary theory and the theory of relativity, . MYTH A conjecture, dreamed up so long ago by scientifically illiterate folk, that to rational and educated modern people, it looks like complete bollocks. An example is the creation myth in Genesis.[/b] |
Living4christ:I think you are incorrectly using language here. If they have PROVEn the people to be false then they are not ignorant. It is a widely acknowledged fact that the Bible is not inherent. if you ask that we wait in the face of evidence, then why dont you wait before you take drugs when sick hoping that it would one day be found to be false? There've not been an accurate proof of evolution, showing that it's all in their head.Pardon me, but like most Nigerians, you have no idea what Evolution is. It has so much evidence that it dwarfs the ones for the Gravitational theory and Germ theory. 99..9% of the World's finest scientists do not back something that is just in their heads. But the truth of the bible is evident everywhere, yet still they'll say "that it's all fiction", calculating back, the people that translated the bible were not born when the bible was written neither was there father nor mother, but they translated what has happened somewhere in Israel which the Israelite is aware of. The proof of accuracy of the Bible still lives (the physical proof) "that is ISRAEL" study israel then study bible prophecy you will find out that it was no mere fiction. No, the Bible's truth is not evident anywhere. Slavery in Egypt didn't happen. The Flood didn't happen. Tower of Babel did't happen. No Worldwide census took place. I could go on and on. Israelites you mention do not believe in what you believe. They will laugh you to scorn when you mention Jesus as the messiah. They think Christians are dumb. I also am a living proof, the Bible changed my life through the knowledge of the My Lord "Jesus" and also the working of His Grace. Testimonies abound worldwide of the proof of a Supernatural force or Spirit and miracle (which i have heard, experience and seen) I know God exist! I pray to Him he answers, and God is the Sovereign Creator of those supernatural spirits or rather gods.Let me ask you: what unique experience do you have that has not happened to someone in India who believes in one of their 2000 gods? If your experience is proof of Yahweh, is Ojedola's experience proof to the existence and supremacy of Orunmila? Do you believe that Amadioha is Supreme? Well, some people do and have better experiences than you do. How do you solve that lacuna in your mind? However this interaction would be more fruitful if only we had the opportunity to meet and discuss one on one, or meat someone you know is devoted to God (i would suggest you meet a Deeper Life Pastor or any member you areconvincede is worth listening to). You can still ask questions though, i will be happy to answer.At the risk of sounding arrogant, while I was a Christian, there was no Deeper Life Pastor I met that was as vast and knowledgeable about Christianity than I was. I remember several instances I led some members to abandon their old-age traditions and embrace what some Christians call The New Creation Realities. You said to ask you a question. Alright. Can you share with me one of those experiences that you had which convinced you that Yahweh was real? |
[b]HOW FREE SPEECH COULD HAVE SAVED THE WORLD I do wonder what would have happened if the Jews had been a bit more liberal when Jesus, if he existed, came along with his heretical teaching. What if they had valued freedom of speech and had allowed Jesus to continue his ministry? Then they wouldn't have demanded that Prefect Pontius Pilate execute Jesus and he would still be alive today unable to fulfil his earthly mission. Without the crucifixion and resurrection, we would not have Christianity. Furthermore, Jesus couldn't commit suicide (it's a sin) and would never die so he'd still be around. I can imagine this 2,000 year old man walking around crying out in desperation, "Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons, Scientologists, anyone, please kill me! My dad wants me dead." So we only have Christianity because the Jews did not respect freedom of speech! It's a great pity. If Jesus had not been executed we would all be mightily impressed by the sight of a fit and healthy 2,000 year-old man. This would be living proof that he was more than human. And, if he'd spent 2,000 years teaching us, we could be quite smart and quite nice by now and all the other religions would have withered away. I reckon that would have been a much better plan...[/b] |
rabzy:[b]Rabzy bro...been ages! I'm well, thank you! How are you? Oh yeah, still trying to see reason as to why people believe in absurdities. Can you blame me after being in the charade for such a long time? Guess I'm making up for lost time. Who knows, maybe...just maybe Yahweh will arrest me like he did Paul The Apostle. Not that I will hold my breath, he's known for not showing up. ![]() I'm a very bothered by the way you have gone about defending slavery in the bible. Is it that you have not read the text or you have wilfully decided not to look at the atrocities? Well, let's see the following together: However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT) You see, many and Christians will try to ignore the moral problems of slavery by saying that these slaves were actually servants or indentured servants. Many translations of the Bible use the word "servant", "bondservant", or "manservant" instead of "slave" to make the Bible seem less immoral than it really is. While many slaves may have worked as household servants, that doesn't mean that they were not slaves who were bought, sold, and treated worse than livestock. The passage above shows that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock. The following passage describes how the Hebrew slaves are to be treated. If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for only six years. Set him free in the seventh year, and he will owe you nothing for his freedom. If he was single when he became your slave and then married afterward, only he will go free in the seventh year. But if he was married before he became a slave, then his wife will be freed with him. If his master gave him a wife while he was a slave, and they had sons or daughters, then the man will be free in the seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to his master. But the slave may plainly declare, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I would rather not go free.' If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will belong to his master forever. (Exodus 21:2-6 NLT) Notice how they can get a male Hebrew slave to become a permanent slave by keeping his wife and children hostage until he says he wants to become a permanent slave. What kind of family values are these? The following passage describes the sickening practice of sex slavery. How can anyone think it is moral to sell your own daughter as a sex slave? When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT) So these are the Bible family values! A man can buy as many sex slaves as he wants as long as he feeds them, clothes them, and screws them! What does the Bible say about beating slaves? It says you can beat both male and female slaves with a rod so hard that as long as they don't die right away you are cleared of any wrong doing. When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property. (Exodus 21:20-21 NAB) You would think that Jesus and the New Testament would have a different view of slavery, but slavery is still approved of in the New Testament, as the following passages show. Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT) Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed. If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful. You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts. Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them. (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT) In the following parable, Jesus clearly approves of beating slaves even if they didn't know they were doing anything wrong. The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it. "But people who are not aware that they are doing wrong will be punished only lightly. Much is required from those to whom much is given, and much more is required from those to whom much more is given." (Luke 12:47-48 NLT) For an African like you whose history is filled with the wickedness of slavery to try to glorify slavery is beyond ridiculous.[/b] |
Living4christ:Nice...it's really good that you have the patience to answer my questions. Most religionists just throw tantrums along the road. About your statement, why should we believe Jesus when he says he is the Truth? Other people in the past have said exactly the same things. Why should we believe the testimony of the Bible seeing that we have had cause to see that it is a very unreliable historical accounts of things? |
[b][size=14pt]Pellegrini: Kelechi Iheanacho is more than a finisher[/size] Manuel Pellegrini hailed new Blue hero Kelechi Iheanacho for his goalscoring full debut … but it was the two assists that really made the boss smile. And the Engineer, usually reticent to lavish praise on individuals, especially young ones, said he had “no doubts” the Nigerian has a big future. His performance evoked memories of Daniel Sturridge – and he has the same self-confident swagger, on and off the field. The 19-year-old grabbed the attention as the Blues cruised into the League Cup quarter-finals with a 5-1 thrashing of Crystal Palace to set up a home tie with Championship side Hull. But for Pellegrini, the way he squared the ball for Kevin de Bruyne to score the second, and then expertly teed up Manu Garcia for his first City goal, meant much more. “Kelechi for me is not just a finisher,” said Pellegrini. “He played very well. He must improve his control. “But he always played with his head up so he made two important assists. He set up Kevin de Bruyne and after that, with more space, made a goal for Manu Garcia. “He can play behind the striker and arrive in the box to finish, as he did for his goal. “It was very important for him to make a very good performance - he is a very good player. “He is not just a striker, because he assisted two goals, and I am very happy for him. He must continue working. He has a lot of things to improve but I am very happy for him.” Performing so well in the League Cup is one thing – but Pellegrini will weigh up his options before deciding whether to stick with the kid when Norwich come to town in the league on Saturday. But Pellegrini said he can see a big future ahead for him: “I don’t have any doubts - I see how he works every day. His personality is also one of the important things. He can play a lot of games in the Premier League. “I am sure he will improve a lot - he is very young.” http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/manchester-city-kelechi-iheanacho-more-10350070[/b] |
This Osimhen lad is something else. He has scored 7 goals from 7 shots. 100% conversion rate. In all my years of watching football, I have never experienced that before. Haba! Interestingly, 9 goals is the U17 record. I think he can beat it. I wish they allow him take the penalties. |
TheGoodJoe:Exactly! Look at the chances Bony wasted. Give them to Kelechi and he would have scored a hattrick today. He scored a half chance for goodness sake. Compare that to the chances Bony fluffed. The boy is nothing short of clinical! I hope Eguavoen watched this match. He should learn to keep quiet when he has nothing tangible to say. |
Eden Hazard: 12 games, 1 goal, 2 assists. Kelechi Iheanacho: 6 games, 2 goals, 2 assists. |
Two assists...One goal...His name is Kelechi City 5 Palace 1 |
Kelechi Iheanacho is officially named the Man of the Match! |
And the boy scores!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Good assist by Kelechi for DeBruyne. Man City 2 - Palace 0 |
zopaks:http://goatd.net/124838/watch-manchester-city-vs-crystal-palace |
Hooked to my laptop. Watching LIVE & DIRECT! |
safarigirl:Chai...they want to kill this De Bruyne. He plays every match. |
linked:All work and no play... ![]() |
linked:Don't sweat it...we give people like Eguavoen too much respect, yet they deliver next to nothing given the potential they have at their disposal. Didn't you see his CV? |
TheGoodJoe:I have this awesome guy who worked with us when I was in Uyo. Not easy to forget him. The name is unisex. Uyo is my favourite place in the country. |
Living4christ:Thank you! Let me ask: What is the TRUTH? |
[b]PREDICTIONS: SCIENCE VS RELIGION "Enormous Asteroid Discovered Last Week Will Whizz Past Earth On Halloween" http://www.iflscience.com/space/halloween-asteroids-are-not-scaring-us Religious books & prophets predict. Their predictions differ from scientific predictions in an obvious way. Above is a scientific prediction released on 20th October, 2015. Precise. Mentions the exact name of the event & the exact time it will happen. Actually, prophets don't predict. They make ambiguous statements that are later picked up by their believers & twisted to look like they were predictions for the event. Imagine some prophet 5,000 years ago saying something like the following: 'There shall be a great danger in the heavens and my faeces shall pass over the earth' Of course, as science makes this prediction, the faithfuls of this prophet would simply go into their book, read out the above statement & conclude that it was a prediction for the asteroid that will pass the earth on Halloween. They'd go like 'an asteroid movement is a great danger in the heavens & asteroids are God's faeces & God's faeces passing by the earth is an allegory for the asteroid passing by the earth.' All of a sudden, whatever Stephen Hawking is just saying has been predicted by our prophet 5,000 years prior. Therefore, our god is real. You see now? Make an ambiguous general statement & years, centuries or millenia after, the statement can fit in into just about any contemporary event. I don't call such predictions. I call them retrospective linking of irrelevant statements to events. Science doesn't make such predictions. Scientific predictions are precise & on-point.[/b] |
gbosaa:Joe |
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[b] Augustine Eguavoen[/b] |
Icon4s:LOL...Eguavoen is forming Ferguson. What does he know? What is his pedigree in assessing players? His coaching records at the U-17, U-20, U-23, Super Eagles? Abeggi. Pellegrini sent out established players and refused to buy because of him and Eguavoen is saying he is just a GOOD player. SMH. He should go and sit down somewhere. |
[b]NOTHING HAS A PLAN FOR YOU Have you ever heard god-believers saying things like, "Nothing comes from nothing." or "Nothing suddenly exploded and became everything! Hahaha!"? These are feeble attacks on secularists who, they falsely claim, believe "everything came from nothing". It is also their rationale for believing that God was required to create everything. But, hold on a minute, what is God? Every believer will tell you that God is immaterial--he is made of NOTHING! So it is actually believers who believe that everything came from nothing. Not only that, but they believe NOTHING has infinite knowledge, power and intelligence! Perhaps I'm being unfair. The believer will say God is not nothing, God is spirit. What then is spirit? Spirit is not matter; actually no one seems to know what spirit is. Is it energy? A mysterious force? We just don't know. So, when you boil it down, believers and non-believers arrive a similar scenario. Science does not yet know what existed prior to the Big Bang or what caused the universe to expand. Was it the quantum version of nothing? A singularity? Quantum information? An n-dimensional space? Faced with an unknown like this, secularists simply admit they do not yet know and look to science to fill the gap. But believers cannot do this. They insist nothing existed prior to the Big Bang but they call it "spirit". They say this nothing caused everything to exist. And it loves you and has a plan for you... They assume this nothing is the god the Hebrews wrote about 3,000 years ago. They have to ASSUME this because there is no rational way to conclude that the precursor to the universe and a jealous Iron-Age god are in any way connected at all. When you think about all this, it is easy to conclude that believers have collectively lost their minds. But I don't think that's the case. I just don't think they have started to use them yet. [/b] |
Living4christ:When I was a Christian, I would never have uttered this to someone else. At least I know Scriptures say that God "...does not want anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." So question: Are you a Christian? Would Yahweh be pleased with you? ![]() |
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Elai147:They are good for JIJO. The volume is just too low. That's my only grouse. Done my bit in them. |
Icon4s:It just occurred to me that I've seen it before, in Half of A Yellow Sun by Adichie. How is it pronounced? |
Icon4s:I'm not. I'm very detribalized though. |
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. I just wish you see the truth, God should just show you the truth. And also, God is not willing that any should perish like you rightly said, that was why he sent his son to redeem us from the corruption of this world
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