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docphresh:
QUICK QUESTION! IF THE REWARD OF A MALE SUICIDE BOMBER IS 77 VIRGINS IN HEAVEN, WHATS THE REWARD OF A FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER? REALLY CURIOUS!

NgeneUkwenu:
This man called Saraki just killed himself politically! Now Buhari has publicly distanced himself from the traitor.

He would be officially dealt with!

Useless man!

Demmzy15:
Patiently waiting for an Atheist or a Trinitarian to claim Sir Isaac Newton!

GooseBaba:
You brought in condoms and even abortionists as an already existing alternative to population control in replying aroonson. Meaning legalization of homo is not necessary..

Try suvking small prick, and leave homo alone. If the first thing that comes to your mind is "homosexual intercourse" when marriage equality is mentioned. I suggest you check ya sef. Are they not human beings, don't they have the right to love, be happy and take it in their butt hole. How does that add or remove from your life...

Demmzy15:
But have produced KKK, white supremacist groups, Mass suicide committing sycophants, cannibal Crusaders, etc all in the name of Christ! So which has destroyed humanity?!

GooseBaba:
Wait..!!! So you are okay with abortions but homosexuality is bad....God abeg ohhh..

plaetton:
Faith is a phantom, a fleeting smoke that the ignorant and the little of mind console themselves with.
It has no reality outside of your head.
It is not a reliable arbiter of reality, but is only a palliative.

plaetton:
It baffles me why religionists hate freedom so much.
The sheer hypocrisy is what I can never get over.

The right wing nuts who have no problems with invading and destroying small countries, leaving millions dead and displaced, now only think their schizophrenic god will be angry at laws that grants equal rights and dignity to all humans, but worse of all, they take upon themselves to prejudge ahead of god and fight for gods right to hate.
It is just mindboggling.

plaetton:
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Even you, my friend, have doubted god's existence. You do it everyday when you engage in your loud and lenthy prayers 5 or 6 times a day. You do it when you go for special prayers, to night vigils, sow seeds, and especially when you blame the devil for bad things that happen.

Everyone who embarks on a scientific quest to unravel the mysteries of life and existence must inevitably question the existence of god.

plaetton:
That is the point here , my dear friend.
You should never be allowed to pass on, deliberately or subtly, falsehoods, any falsehood, simply because you want to promote your own myopic worldview.
I certainly will not allow you.

So, you have been rightly served.

mujahid1339:
xtianity turning people to atheism

plaetton:
Too dumb to know the difference between an agnostic and an atheist ?.

Correction. Darwin was never an atheist.
Darwin suffered the same mental torment that all truth seekers go through when factual truths overwhelm deeply rooted preconditioned beliefs and superstitions.

Darwin, just Galleleo and Isaac Newton before him, sought hard for a compromise way to smuggle god into his new discoveries.

Therefore, his grief was the grief of all truth seekers.

The Evolution of Darwin

The scientist's problem with God did not spring from his theory.

Dinesh D'Souza

It was in 1859—exactly a century and a half ago—that Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species. It is perhaps the most controversial book of the past millennium, and the work that has since made Darwin the patron saint of modern atheism. According to Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker, "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."

Evolution does seem to turn many Christians into unbelievers. A famous example is the distinguished Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson. Evolution gave him a profound sense of intellectual liberation from his Baptist upbringing in the South. Evolution also makes some people secular evangelists for the Darwinist cause. Michael Shermer was an evangelical Christian studying at Pepperdine University when his study of evolution convinced him to give up his faith. Shermer is now the editor of Skeptic magazine.

So does a belief in evolution automatically lead to disbelief in God? Actually, Darwin didn't think that. Darwin was not an "intellectually fulfilled atheist"; rather, he called himself an agnostic. Atheists say God does not exist, while agnostics say they don't know one way or the other. Moreover, Darwin did not boast about his unbelief; rather, he approached it with marked public caution. Shocking the mores of traditional believers may be Dawkins's thing, but it certainly wasn't Darwin's.

Here we must distinguish between Darwin the scientist and Darwin the unbeliever. Darwin, who was raised Anglican and even considered becoming a clergyman, did eventually relinquish his Christian faith. But he did not do so because of evolution.

The story is told in Adrian Desmond and James Moore's authoritative biography, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. When Darwin's daughter Annie died at age 10, Darwin came to hate the God he blamed for this. This was in 1851, eight years before Darwin released Origin of Species.

Around the time of Annie's death, Darwin also wrote that if Christianity were true, then it would follow that his grandfather Erasmus Darwin and many of his closest family friends would be in hell. Darwin found this utterly unacceptable, given that these men were wise and kind and generous. Darwin's rejection of God was less an act of unbelief than a rebellion against the kind of God posited by Christianity. A God who would allow a young girl to die and good people to go to hell was not anyone whom Darwin wanted to worship.

When Darwin published his work on evolution, the American biologist Asa Gray wrote Darwin to say that his book had shown God's ingenious way of ensuring the unity and diversity of life. From Gray's point of view, Darwin had deepened man's understanding of divine teleology. Darwin praised Gray for seeing a point that no one else had noticed. In later editions of his books, Darwin went out of his way to cite the English writer Charles Kingsley, who described evolution as compatible with religious belief. To the end of his life, Darwin insisted that one could be "an ardent theist and an evolutionist."

Some of Darwin's followers, however, were attracted to Darwin's theory precisely because they saw it as helping overthrow the Christian case for divine creation. Thomas Henry Huxley, for example, noted that evolution's "complete and irreconcilable antagonism" toward Christianity constituted "one of its greatest merits."

So why didn't Darwin correct his overenthusiastic advocate? Here is where the story gets complicated. Over time, Darwin's hostility to Christianity did play a role in his scientific views. While Darwin was originally very modest about evolution—a theory to account for transitions from one life form to another—he became increasingly insistent that evolution was an entirely naturalistic system, having no room for miracles or divine intervention at any point. When Darwin's co-discoverer of evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, wrote him to say that evolution could not account for man's moral and spiritual nature, Darwin accused him of jeopardizing the whole theory: "I hope you have not murdered too completely your own and my child." Darwin's ultimate position was that it was disastrous for evolution to, at any point, permit a divine foot in the door.


http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/january/24.67.html

sherrylo:
@Op the board that was supposed to have a meeting yesterday before the announcement of their dissolve. You now come here and tell us thrash,

Haven't any of them signed anything since PMB became the president?

temitemi1:
Sorry for d loose

PentiumPro:
When you are short on sensible thing to say, you resort to cheap shots.
Foolish Biafran

PentiumPro:
Open market distribution of drugs is illegal in Nigeria, when you get Biafra, you can make it legal.

PentiumPro:
If a couple of thousand people will lose their jobs for millions to have a chance to live, so be it.
If some people engage in illegal business and the government is saying enough is enough of the destruction their business brings, then such govt deserves commendation.

QuotaSystem:
They should be shut down for endangering the lives of vulnerable innocent Nigerians daily.

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] What the hell?! We have not even renewed our data plan for this month and this yakmut is crying already?... [/color]