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Separated-at-birth twins get married Fri Jan 11, 12:15 PM ET



LONDON (AFP) - Twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different sets of parents later married each other without realising they were brother and sister, a peer has told the House of Lords.

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David Alton, an independent, pro-life member of the Lords, said the brother and sister were granted an annulment after a high court judge ruled that the marriage had never validly existed.

The Catholic politician -- who discovered the case after talking to a judge -- used it to highlight perceived deficiencies in the government's proposed Human Embryology and Tissues Bill, which is currently going through parliament.

The bill is designed to make it easier for lesbian and gay couples to have children through assisted reproduction, recognising same-sex partners as legal parents of babies conceived through donated sperm, eggs or embryos.

But it contains no provision to require the identity of the donor to be disclosed, potentially meaning a child could not be told they were conceived by assisted reproduction.

Alton raised the case of the married twins -- who were born after IVF treatment -- during a debate on December 10, details of which only appeared on Friday.

"There are implications for everybody involved, but the needs of the child will always be paramount, and it is right that we should therefore make the process as transparent as possible," Alton told the Lords.

IVF -- which increases the chances of multiple births -- meant such cases could become more common if the law does not require children to be told they were donor conceived and have access to their genetic history, he said.

"The right of children to know the identity of their biological parents is a human right," he added Friday.

"There will be more cases like this if children are not given access to the truth. The needs of the child must always be paramount."

The identities of the twins and details of their relationship and marriage have been kept secret, but it was known they were separated soon after birth and never told they were twins.

They only discovered they were blood relatives after the wedding.

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WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees. Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

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"I was dumfounded. I thought I was dreaming," the husband told the newspaper Wednesday.

The couple, married for 14 years, are now divorcing, the newspaper reported.

(Writing by Chris Borowski, Editing by Matthew Jones)

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Does anybody know of the descendants of Gehazi, who was cursed by Elisha, the Prophet of God with the disease of Leprosy? After Elisha had declined Naaman's gifts, given to him for the Healing Power of God, Gehazi ran after him, extored some of the gifts from him and then returned back, whereupon, Elisha placed the curse of leprosy on him and his descendants. I believe the story.

Why should you want to annoy your parents when The Holy Bible has instructed us to honor them?

I miss my family like crazy.

I miss NTA news, movies.

I miss my childhood friends, my childhood experiences, the long vacation when I will troop out with some neighbors of mine to visit people. Chei, one girl, will just come to another friend's place, and then, then, discussion will ensue on which place to visit. And, come correct, we visit people, and they are so friendly, so hospitable to you.

I miss Nigerian food a lot.

I miss college, secondary and primary school life in Nigeria.

I miss going to the stream to fetch water when I was in secondary school.

I really miss Nigeria. I am even contemplating moving back home!

www.nigerianmemories..com

The Mind of Christ

In the message "Stand Our Ground" we began with a statement that our
Christian walk involves a process of renewing our mind. Paul wrote to
the
Romans about this renewal as an on-going process of transformation
(Romans
12:2). He also wrote about a renewed mind as something which has
already
occurred; "But we have the mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16).

The consistent message through all the New Testament is that through
faith
in Jesus we are given a new birth, with a new heart, a new Spirit, and
a
new mind. However, we are continually exhorted to live as a new
creation,
worship with a new heart, receive guidance and strength from a new
Spirit,
and make decisions and set priorities with a new mind. We must learn
to
walk according to the transformed life we have been granted!

Philippians 2:5
"Your attitude (or mind in the KJV) should be the same as that of
Christ
Jesus."

Many portions of Jesus' life were for the express purpose of giving us
an
example by which to live. With all the power of the Universe at His
command, He humbled Himself and demonstrated the mind and attitude of a

servant; "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve"
(Matthew
20:28).

He demonstrated a mind of obedience and lived to honor His Father in
ALL He
did - even though being obedient might result in discomfort or
pain, or
even death: "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from
Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will" (Matthew 26:39).

As He obediently served, Jesus also demonstrated a mind void of all
pride. With more abilities than we can possibly comprehend, Jesus
still
gave all the glory to His Father; "By Myself I can do nothing, for I
seek
not to please Myself but Him who sent Me" (John 5:30). His entire life

became an example of how we are to be an empty vessel through which God
may
work.

Moments before He died - after being beaten, whipped, spit upon and
nailed
to a cross - Jesus still demonstrated the mind of supreme love and
forgiveness; "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are
doing" (Luke 23:34).

Though we know we have far to go, the mind of Christ becomes our
example to
follow. We must develop the mind of a humble servant, void of pride,
who
desires nothing more than for our Heavenly Father to work in and
through
our life. We must humbly submit and learn to forgive others as Christ
first forgave us. Let's live as His Child. Let's continue to be
transformed, and more fully develop the mind of Christ.


Courtesy of God's Daily Word Ministries, Steve Troxel

I read in one paper that during his imprisonment, Abiola affirmed the Messiaship of Jesus Christ. It was unbelievable, but I did read it.

That she choked over emotions implies that Hilary was stunned by her defeat in Iowa. Did you watch how she sparred viciously against Barack Obama on Saturday? The lady did not see it coming, she probably anticipated a clear victory in Iowa. She is the same lady, who, according to at least one publication that she had demanded for absolute loyalty from her contributors.

I checked my bulk folder and there are no notifications from nairaland.

Is there proof that a woman actually gave birth to fish when there is no picture of her to validate this story. What is the fish doing inside the basin?

Any organization that does not accept the Physical death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is a fraud!. Steer clear from them.

Thanks for the correction, but it was a typo, I meant decade, not decades, that is comparing the administration of Clinton with Bush snr and even Bush Jnr.

As much as I don't support some of the policies of the democratic party vis a vis, their support of abortion, I would vote for them over a republican, because of their interest in working for the masses. The republicans potray themselves as a Bible thumping organization when in reality, they cater to the interest of the rich. Come, who benefits from tax cuts in the society? The rich of course. Why is it that, (in the past decades or so) when a republican assumes office, the economy is in doldrums, but with a democrat, the economy would be in an upswing?

As for Hilary Clinton, I am certain that she was taken aback by her loss in Iowa. Over confidence may have been a factor in her loss, because, I read in the papers that prior to this development, she had made known to her supporters/fundraisers, she was not interested in any divided loyalties. Expecting a massive turnout of support from Hollywood celebrities, she was shocked that some of them flocked to Obama that she changed gear. Now, her Iowa loss has dealt her a humbling experience. I wont vote for her, but my preference is either for Obama or Huckabee. Lets see how it goes.


@as for the poster who wrote that an Ibo would be president of Nigeria before a black man resides at 1600 Pensylvannia, you gotta remember that Azikiwe was Nigeria's first president. Alex Ekwueme was the vp for shagari, Ojukwu was pardoned by Shagari, so if you are attempt is to highlight the exclusion of Ibos in Nigerian politics, then that is completely wrong!

No, I am not referring to that one. I am referring to the current practise of receiving emails from nairaland on topics that you have responded to, or created.

Stalin’s ape-man Superwarriors
by Russell Grigg

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin wanted to rebuild the Red Army, in the mid-1920s, with Planet-of-the-Apes-style troops by crossing humans with apes. This was according to a report in The Scotsman newspaper on 20 December 2005.1




Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov pictured shortly after his African mission.
The report claimed that Stalin ordered Russia’s top animal-breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, to use his skills to produce a super warrior. Stalin is said to have told Ivanov, ‘I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.’2 In 1926, the Politburo in Moscow passed this request to build a ‘living war machine’ on to the Academy of Sciences, who engaged Ivanov and sent him to West Africa with many thousands of dollars to conduct experiments in impregnating chimpanzees by artificial insemination. In the USSR, a centre was set up in Georgia, Stalin’s birthplace, for the ‘apes’ to be raised.

Ivanov’s experiments in Africa were a total failure. Further experiments in Georgia to use monkey sperm in human volunteers also failed. Ivanov was now in disgrace. For his expensive failure, he was sentenced to five years’ jail, commuted to five years’ exile in Kazakhstan, where he died in 1932, aged 61.1

The authors of the above report do not give any references other than unspecified ‘recently uncovered secret documents’, ‘Moscow archives’ and ‘Moscow newspapers’.1 So how much truth is there in it?

Some known facts
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica3 and Wikipedia,4 Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was born in Russia in 1870. He graduated from the Kharkov University in 1896 and became a full professor in 1907. A veterinary researcher, he perfected artificial insemination and its first use for horse breeding. This process allowed one stallion to fertilize up to 500 mares, far more than the 20–30 by natural means. These results were sensational for their time (c. 1901). He also pioneered the experimental use of artificial insemination to produce hybrids of domestic animals and their wild varieties.5 He was one of the first scientists to obtain a zeedonk6 by crossbreeding a zebra with a Przewalski’s horse.7




The WWII Allied leaders, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, at the Yalta Conference, 1945.
In 1910, he gave a presentation at the World Congress of Zoologists in Graz, Austria, on the possibility of creating a human-ape hybrid.8 In 1924, he obtained permission from the Pasteur Institute in Paris to use its experimental primate station in Kindia, French Guinea, for such an experiment. He sought backing for this from the Soviet Government. Finally in 1925 he obtained US$10,000 from the Academy of Sciences for his experiments in Africa.

It turned out that there were no sexually mature chimpanzees in Kindia, and so, in 1926, he obtained permission from French Guinea’s colonial governor to work at the botanical gardens in Conakry. Here Ivanov artificially inseminated three chimpanzees. All three failed to become pregnant. He returned to the Soviet Union, where further planned experiments also failed.

In 1930, Ivanov came under ‘political criticism’ during the ‘Great Purge’ and was arrested. He was sentenced to five years’ exile in Alma Ata, Kazakh S.S.R. (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), where he worked for the Kazakh Veterinary-Zoology Institute until his death from a stroke on March 20, 1932. The famous psychologist and dog researcher, Ivan Pavlov, wrote an obituary about him.

Motives
Stalin undoubtedly knew of his world-famous compatriot’s project. US$10,000 would have been an enormous sum in those days, and it would have been hugely prudent for anyone to have obtained ‘approval from the top’ before allocating so much on such a bizarre experiment. Dictator Stalin, a passionate atheist, based upon his belief in evolution,9 was quite capable of envisaging the use of the technology, should it prove successful, to produce slave hybrid warriors. And, because of his evolutionary materialism, he would have had no moral compunctions.10



If evolution were true, humans and apes would be closely related. So the idea that they could interbreed would not have seemed outlandish.11

Ivanov shared his master’s belief in evolution. If evolution were true, humans and apes would be closely related. So the idea that they could interbreed would not have seemed outlandish.11 In Africa, Ivanov did not use his own sperm (or that of his son, who was with him),4 but that of local natives.12 No doubt he believed the widely held Darwinian racist view that Africans were closer to apes in their ancestry than he, a Caucasian, was. But was he also ashamed to think that any hybrid creature produced with his own sperm would be his ‘child’?

From a biblical viewpoint, no such natural human-ape hybrid is possible. God made man in the image of God, not in the image of an ape. People have a spiritual dimension, involving our ability to worship God. God does not, and will not, share His likeness with an ape. Unlike our suggestion concerning Ivanov, God is not ashamed, but pleased, to be our Father and to call us His ‘children’13—when we put our faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour from sin.



Reader feedback: Stalin’s ape-men experiment had anti-God motives
I appreciated ‘Stalin’s Ape-Man Super Warriors’ because it offered more insight into something I read years ago about the same subject. At the time, I wondered if it was true, and looked for independent confirmation to no avail—until now. What I read years ago was a brief reference to Prof. Ivanov’s African expedition in a book called The Rabbit King of Russia. This book was written by Mr R.G. Urch, correspondent for the London Times for Russia and the Baltic states in the 1920s and 1930s. The book was written around 1940, and has fictional dialogue, but follows the career of a very real man, who was a Soviet bureaucrat travelling about Russia to bring more food to the people through rabbit culture. Many of the book’s incidents are footnoted by contemporary newspaper references. The details of the Ivanov expedition were the same in this book as in your article—taking place in 1925, financed by $10,000 US dollars (I would really like to know who gave them the money), and working through the French research station. Mr Urch also footnoted the episode with two Leningrad newspaper articles dated 27 November and 5 December 1925. Here are some interesting quotes from his book:

‘The whole revolting idea is nothing more nor less than to prove that men and animals are one, that religion is wrong, that there is no God.’
‘(She) had been indignant from the first about the Soviet Government’s efforts to create a race of man-monkey or monkey-man to ‘throw into the face of churchmen’, as the Bolshevist leaders put it.’
‘The task of the Ivanov expedition was simple. It was to go to the Congo and, if possible, induce the French Pasteur station working there under Professor Calmette to assist the Bolshevist scientists to catch a number of female chimpanzee apes. After this, Ivanov and his staff would endeavor to fertilize the apes by artificial methods and bring back the mothers with their little human apes to gladden the hearts of the anti-God Society in Soviet Russia and prove that “There is no God.”’
Mr Urch also says that the following year a circumstantial report was current in Moscow that the steamer bearing Ivanov’s ‘interesting female apes’ had been lost with all hands in the Black Sea. The expedition seems to have been a failure that the Bolsheviks did not wish to acknowledge.

It’s important to realize that this perversely unethical attempt to breed ape-human hybrids has already been tried at least once by the enemies of God, without success. This gives a fitting background to current efforts to make man and ape look genetically similar.

DAVID DEMICK
Nebraska, USA

References
Stephen C. and Hall, A., Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super warriors, <www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2434192005>, 2 August 2006. Return to Text.
‘And there was intense pressure to find a new labour force, particularly one that would not complain, with Russia about to embark on its first Five-Year Plan for fast track industrialisation.’ (Ref. 1.) Return to Text.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 6:441, 1992. Return to Text.
Wikipedia, <www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ivanovich_Ivanov_(biologist)>, 2 August 2006. Return to Text.
His objective was to develop new breeds more resistant to illness and the harsh Russian winters (ref. 3). Return to Text.
Sometimes spelled ‘zedonk’. See also Catchpoole, D., Zenkey, zonkey, zebra donkey! Creation 26(3):56, 2004. Return to Text.
See Bell, P., Resurrecting a ‘prehistoric’ horse, Creation 26(2):46–51, 2004. Return to Text.
Answers.com, <www.answers.com/topic/ilya-ivanovich-ivanov-biologist>, 2 August 2006. Return to Text.
E.g. Hall, R., Darwin’s Impact, Creation 27(2):46–47, 2005. Return to Text.
This follows from evolutionary presuppositions; like grass (our evolutionary cousin), we are supposedly just one more rearrangement of matter. Return to Text.
See also Wieland, C., The strange case of the ‘Humanzee’: the incredible story of Oliver, the alleged ‘ape-human hybrid’, Creation 28(1):42–43, 2005. Return to Text.
Rossiianov, K., Beyond species: Il’ya Ivanov and his experiments on cross-breeding humans with anthropoid apes, Science in Context 15(2):277–316, 2002. Return to Text.
John 1:12; Romans 8:14–17; Philippians 2:15; 1 John 3:1–2, Hebrews 2:11, 11:16. Return to Text.

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Yeah, I did

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Yes, Jesus Christ is God, be it Old Testament, or New Testament.

If in today's age, some parents are 'selling' their daughters to the highest bidder, and giving out their pre-teen kids to strangers as househelps, how can one convince me that this practise of selling one's kinsman was not practised in the previous era? Then again, I may be wrong, because some of the text books, written with a eurocentric view might present our forefathers as a group of savages, justifying slavery, and pinpointing the blame to our ancestors

Very Funny, I am just laughing out loud here

By the way, I think the story is a joke.

Colonialism has its good and bad part, but for the poster who believes that without colonialism, Africans wont have doctors, what makes you think so? they were doctors, trained in the native way, prior to colonialism. I dont have a problem with herbal medicines, as long as it is strictly used for medicinal purposes and not spiritualism.

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From the tone of your post you are likely not a Christian, but to indulge you I will like you to know that from the christian perspective, the bible tells us that our incorruptible bodies will be raised up to heaven.

The following qoutes might help clarify this:

Quote
Job 19:26
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
KJV
. . . that is even after death and decay, He will still, in his flesh, see God. How? well here is how:


Quote
Daniel 12:2
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
KJV
Quote
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
KJV
yes God will raise the dead and make them incorruptible and they shall ascend bodily into heaven. Those who are alive and are of right standing with God shall also be caught up bodily with them.
The last qoute from 1 Thessalonians 4:17 explicitly stated that those who are alive . . . to be alive means body and spirit are present together. Thus if the living will be caught up then their spirit was not to be separated from their bodies.
Did you think God was to raise all the dead up on the last day so that an army of zombies will walk the Earth? Surely he had a plan for our bodies as well as our soul. Why else would he send his Angels to contend for the corpse of Moses (Jude 9:9).

Christ's body was never allowed to see curroption (it did not decay nor was it defiled) and the body raised into heaven. Yep our devine "Flying Christ" sits (body+Spirit) at the right hand of God.



Ndipe's comment:

Tomx, May The Almighty God bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen!. Your answer, culled from the Holy Bible has countered the false beliefs of Jehovah Witness and grail movement about the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. David, in the Psalms was referring to Jesus Christ when he said,


Psalm 16:10 (King James Version)

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2016:10;&version=9;

which is confirmed in Acts 13:35
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=51&chapter=13

I hope that JW, would read that verse to correct their false teachings. Phew!!!, thanks again, Tomx

NEPA is a disappointment.

And what were the redeeming qualities of Idi Amin? Care to share? My rebuttal on wendymanda's discourse was that he/she was trying to portray African leaders as less materialistic than the present leaders.

Wendymanda, go and read your history books of the exploits organized by rulers of ancient kingdoms of Africa, prior to colonialism.