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People often refer to the Christian God as the creator of the universe. Most of the time, I do a mental face-palm whenever I hear this and get on with my day. But every once in a while, I laugh. I laugh quite hard actually, if my mood is good enough at that particular moment in time. The idea of Yahweh being the creator of something as vast and as complex as our universe is so ridiculous, so obviously stupid, so blatantly wrong that it's laughable. And don’t call me Shirley.

Why, though? Why is the idea laughable? Billions of people believe it, so why not? It seems only rational if you're one of those people. After all, all those people can't be wrong, can they?

A Lesson in Astronomy

To understand why it's laughable, it's good to have an understanding of what the universe is. Most of what makes up the observable, material universe is matter—or atoms. Each atom has a certain number of protons, neutrons, and electrons, and the number of each determines what kind of element an atom is and how it behaves. The vast majority of the universe consists of the smallest atoms, hydrogen and helium. These elements also make up the vast majority of a star's composition for the majority of it's life, fusing hydrogen atoms in helium atoms. Our sun is a low mass star, which means that in about 6-7 billion years, it will grow into a red giant before collapsing into a white dwarf.

Stars tend to be found in large groups, such as star clusters or galaxies. Our sun is located towards the edge of one of the spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way itself is approximately 100,000 light-years across, and contains about 200 billion stars. The current estimates suggest there are about 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. That means that there could be as many as 10^24 stars in the universe, or 1 with 25 zeros behind it. The universe itself is thought to be as large as 150 million light-years across, according to current estimates. That’s approximately 9*10^20 miles, or 9 with 20 zeros behind it. Even riding on the fastest man-made object, it would take us about 5 and a half quadrillion years to go from one side to the other.

All-Powerful Daddy

Now why is this relevant, you ask? “Of course, my god could have made all that, he's all-powerful!” Well, you can say that and anything else about your god that you so desire. But let's look at what your holy book says, shall we? After all, it is what you base your faith on, yes?

There are multiple passages in the Bible that talk about the stars and the sky. An example would be Genesis 1:14-18:

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good."

For most Christians, this passage, along with every other passage about stars the Bible, demonstrates that God created the stars and knew everything there is to know about them. But look at the passage again. All it says is that God created the stars, the moon and the sun, and was proud of his work. Why does it not say how the stars were made? Why are the words stellar nucleosynthesis or hydrogen or helium never mentioned in a thousand pages of scripture? It also says the stars, and the sun. Why doesn't it ever make the connection that the sun is a star, just like all the others in the sky? It's quite simple when one thinks about it. So simple that it escapes most religious people when asked about it.

They. Didn't. Know.

How could they? They had no access to telescopes or the math necessary to calculate the motions of our solar system. Algebra wouldn't even emerge until around 2000 BC, a good 2000 years or more after the events in Genesis, (depending on which YEC you ask) and even then it was not understood by all but a few people.

But why? Why would an all-powerful, all-loving creator of the universe keep that information from his followers? Surely, such a loving god would want his children to learn about the universe in which they were born so they could have better lives through understanding it. Surely, a god as loving as the God of the Bible would leave a detailed, accurate account of the universe and how it works for future generations to read and learn from, and prosper as a result. Surely, a loving god would help us grow to be more than what we are and not keep us docile and grounded.

Instead, we’re left with a book that was formed by multiple authors who chose to write about such things as working on certain days and wearing different clothes. These concerns were canonized by a small group of people who decided that they were important enough to make the best-selling book of all time a steaming pile of bullshit for other ‘leaders’ to profit from and use to convince people to do their bidding.

What If?

I do sometimes wonder if there is a consciousness guiding the laws of the universe, using people of faith to suit its whim. After all, the second law of thermodynamics states that order and structure tends to decay into chaos and disorder, given enough time. At some point, billions of years from now, our universe will die a slow but certain heat death. There will be no more galaxies, no stars, no planets, no us. Atoms will crumble into electrons and neutrons and protons, and eventually those will collapse into quarks.

And yet, everything I have seen so far seems to defy that rule. Our sun is still burning, converting hydrogen and helium atoms into heavier elements and electromagnetic radiation. That radiation continues to fuel our planet and its ecosystem, and consequently us. Our population continues to grow and learn and discover things about the universe that we didn’t know previously, as well as things about ourselves. We learned that going back to the beginnings of life on our little mote of dust, our ancestors were nothing more than single-cell organisms. Before that, we were dust amongst the stars, and before that, we, along with the rest of the universe, were a blinding explosion of light.

With the sheer number of stars and planets in our galaxy alone, statistics and probability tell us that life likely exists elsewhere in the universe. Perhaps such life exists in our galaxy, if we’re lucky. Unfortunately, I will never know, if the current rate of technological advancement is anything to go by, for I won’t be around when the first ships capable of traveling faster than light are being built. (And they will be built. We are just now discovering that faster-than-light could be possible after all.)

But if life does exist elsewhere, is it possible that whatever civilization there might be could be contemplating some, if not many, of the same questions we are asking as well? And if that’s true, what conclusions have they come to so far? Have they looked to the stars and wondered what else is out there? Or have they buried their heads in the ground in fear of the wrath of a god, like so many of us have before?

It's not the Answer that drives us. It's the Question.

The truth is, that if life does exist elsewhere, then my previous question needs to be changed. The question isn’t if a consciousness is dictating the universe. The question is, are we part of that consciousness? Are we a part of something so vast, so powerful, so beautiful that we simply aren’t capable of understanding yet? It’s one of the few plausible answers to that highly abused, misspoken question about the beginning of the universe and whether the universe has a creator. After all, we aren’t in the universe, we are the universe. Those same elements that I spoke of earlier aren’t some alien substance under a microscope. They’re not just in your body, they are your body, your heart, your brain. We are the product of billions of years of energy, repetition, and variation, guided by the natural laws of this place we call the universe. And we, along with any other sentient life out there, are the only shot at the universe having any kind of intelligence at all.

If, for whatever cruel twist of fate, the God of the Bible exists, I want no part of him. I, along with what I hope is the vast majority of humanity, am better than him. I know more than he ever taught. I see beyond horizons that he could never reach. I love more genuinely than He. I help more than He. I understand myself better than He ever could. I see planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies just on the edge of humanity’s perception. I can even sometimes catch a small glimpse of our universe, and all the wonder and beauty it holds.

Your god is too small for me.

-Inspired by Phillhelenes

http://www.atheistrepublic.com/blog/tom-hanak/your-god-too-small

Lalasticlala, Mynd44 I need frontpage. Let it be what I have achieved this month.

I want you to tell me when the first touch screen phone came onto the market. 2007? 2006? Who made it? Apple? Sony? LG?

Well, you’d be wrong with any of those choices. In fact, the first touch screen phone was put onto the market by computer giant IBM in 1992 going by the name of IBM Simon.

https://blog.projectshamba.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ibsiomn.jpg


Yep, you heard that right. the iPhone, Galaxy, and LG Prada all came more than one whole decade after the first touch screen phone. What a bunch of slackers! *sarcasm*

However, that’s not to say that Apple wasn’t aware of the concept of a touchscreen phone beforehand. They had actually made a prototype of touchscreen phone almost a full decade before the Simon phone came along. However, the main difference between the two was that Apple’s prototype was actually a landline phone that had the display on the base rather than on the phone itself.

https://blog.projectshamba.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/main-qimg-ae53446c113b3bb5b729f5960bf8a449-c.jpg

Touchscreen computers also have a pretty early history as well. In the same year that Apple made its prototype phone, Hewlett Packard actually released the HP-150, one of the first commercially available touchscreen computers.

https://blog.projectshamba.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/touch-screen2.jpg

However, Hewlett Packard was also a slacker, as the first ever touch screen computer came by almost two whole decades earlier in 1965, when E.A. Johnson invented the first known touchscreen computer for the Royal Radar Establishment in the British town of Malvern. It was his papers that first sparked interest in touchscreen technology, albeit a very small one. Take a look at this bad boy:

https://blog.projectshamba.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/old-school-touchscreen.jpg

The original touchscreen computer right here in all of its glory. So the next time you think that we are so advanced and amazing that we’ve improved touchscreens so much since their “invention” in 2007, remember that it actually took about 42 years before we got to the point of making them as popular as they are now.

Cheers.

Source: http://blog.projectshamba.com/2116/who-made-the-first-touch-screen-phone/

Howmon:
Avoid that man. Else He'll use you to count scores.

Na so you see am?

Templerun95:
Islam will dominate the whole wide world insha allah

No wonder una dey throw bomb anyhow.

4reigningqueen:
done thanks. can i a passport already uploaded be replaced? ibf yes how?

No it can't.

youngest85:
Amazing!

If he was a nigerian 'dem go say na juju' especially the ewedu people

All tribes are superstitious.

4reigningqueen:
yes

check your matric NUM on your portal dashboard. is it in ALL CAPS or small letters. use it in naming your passport. also try compress the size.

bigcil2:
Where are you based

Abuja

Lalasticlala, come and see some that shot his Balls off by himself.

bigcil2:
List your recent jobs here.

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Known as the luckiest man to ever live, Croatian Frane Selak cheated death not once or twice, but an astonishing 7 TIMES! Selak’s brushes with death started in January 1962 when the train he was travelling in flipped off the tracks, and crashed in a freezing canyon river. Bystanders pulled him to the shore, while 17 other passengers drowned to their deaths. Selak just suffered a broken arm and hypothermia.

https://blog.projectshamba.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Frane-Selak.jpg


A year later, during his first and only plane ride, Frane was blown out of a malfunctioning plane door, and as luck would have it, landed on a haystack. The plane crashed, killing 19 people.

Three years later, in ’66, a bus he was travelling in skid off the road, into a river, drowning four passengers. Selak, however, swam safely to the shore with only a few cuts and bruises.

Two years after, Selak was trying to teach his youngest son how to hold a gun. Selak hadn’t realised that the safety trigger was accidentally off and somehow managed to shoot himself in the testicles. Selak’s testicles had to be removed, but he luckily survived, again.

In 1970, and 1973 he got into accidents where his car caught fire. Apart from singed hair, Selak managed to get out of the situation absolutely unharmed, again.

Later, in 1995, Selak was struck by a bus in Zagreb, but only sustained minor injuries.

A year later, he eluded a head-on collision with a United Nations truck on a blind mountain curve by swerving into a guardrail, which couldn’t hold on its own and gave way under the impact force of the car. He was not wearing a seat-belt at this point of time, and was ejected from the car when the door flew open. Selak saw his death along with the car plummet down about 300 ft into a gorge. You’d think cheating death an inhuman 7 times would be enough to be on this list, but there’s more.

In 2003, two days after his 73rd birthday, Frane Selak won a staggering $1.1 million in the Croatian National Lottery! While he bought two houses and a boat with it, Frane also used the money to buy a small chapel to thank the Lord for all of his fortune. After $1.1 million and the 7 near-death experiences, he better be thankful.

Source: http://blog.projectshamba.com/is-he-the-luckiest-person-on-earth/2058/

bigcil2:
I need a web developer that's a pro in Wordpress.

You can hire me.

kkins25:
What other exist??

Check here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_deities

kkins25:
If not lucifer, was it jehova

Are they the only deities that exist?

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3rd Draft Examination Timetable for 2017_1

This is the third draft examination timetable for 2017_1 POP exams. Kindly download, view, assess and plan accordingly.

Note
Kindly channel complaints (if any) through the study centres.

- Directorate of Exams and Assessments

http://nouedu.net/announcements/20171-pop-3rd-draft-timetable

http://nouedu.net/sites/default/files/2017-05/2017_1%20POP%203rd%20Draft%20Timetable.xlsx

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FAAN REFUTES RECRUITMENT RUMOURS
http://www.faan.gov.ng/2017/05/11/faan-refutes-recruitment-rumours/

For those having issues of No course registered, visit your Study Centre.
They will reset your portal and you will register your courses and exams afresh.

Your TMAs won't be touched.

Edit:

Resetting is all about dropping the courses. So your monies will be returned to your portal.

Need serious fund for my Startup

make up, covering bullshits since it's inception.


#ProjectShamba

I don't know gospel singers do boyfriend and girlfriend stuffs...

Expecting to see 400
The delusion is deep.

#ProjectShamba

kingsleyAba:
somebody shld tell me what i hv to do with my jamb score 212 for the kind science course n school that I apply

First of all, Learn how to spell, especially SUICIDE.

NLProblemChild:
thanks ..pls help me find out. Concerning the fingers

Ask Jamb on Twitter, they might be of help https://twitter.com/jambhq

felixomor:
And your contribution was off point as well.
So address your own problem first

Replying you is a waste of time.
Cos you really have nothing to offer in this thread.

NLProblemChild can still re-register.

felixomor:
Did i mention you?
What i quoted was written where?
Is it not here.

Pleas shift.

This is a public forum, and every contribution is open to be replied.
You quoted a post just to ask question which isn't related to the OP, I also quoted yours to make my contribution.

felixomor:
What is sheeple if i may ask?

Deviation isn't allowed. Stick to the topic, if you need the meaning, grab a dictionary it won't cost your salvation.