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jamiru:
hi

thks for given me ur opinion.

but sorry i dont believe i am EVOLVING instead I AM GROWING!
evolve: develop via evolutionary change: in evolutionary theory, to develop from an earlier biological form
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grow: to become larger in size through natural development
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Heriott=Watt is in Edinburgh, NOT Aberdeen. It is 130miles away from Aberdeen!

The biggest institutions for oil and gas are STILL in the Niger Delta - the PTI, the Federal Polytechnic being built in Bayelsa and the National Technical Institute for Gas and Petroleum in Bonny. The IPS collaboration between UNIPORT and Ecole Polytechnique is also in the Delta and produces a lot of the grads for oil companies too - are ALL the institutions in the US located on the Gulf Coast?

4. A Federal University claim should not be muddled into the strategic needs of the oil and gas industry in this case - it has not been done in the past and should not be done now.

You need to join issues with me - so the graduates from UNIPORT, UNIUYO, RSUT, DELSU, UNIBEN, NDU Wilberforce Island are not enough? Please join issues with me on this one!

Again they are chasing shadows - instead on focusing on how the allocations for June were spent, they are blowing hot air as usual. The ND states (minus Ondo and CR) received 31% of state allocations (~35bn) in June and we hear nothing about ensuring that is properly used.

davidylan:
Peer-review doesnt even acknowledge evolution as anything more than a theory. Its not a coincidence that it isnt called a fact yet.


Aww sorry, did your silly excuse hurt you. I wonder why that is your answer to a valid question reposted here - None of you is yet to show us where voting is regarded as a vital scientific research tool!

It cant be that hard can it?

Do you understand that verse or you're just misquoting it as usual? To start with . . . as long as you're not saved by the precious blood of Jesus you are going to hell even if you were the most moral person on earth.

Works alone cannot save you! Christ's blood cleanses from all sin!

The theory or doctrine of redemption has for its basis an idea of pecuniary justice, and not that of moral justice.
If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed. Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this, is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself. It is then no longer justice. It is indiscriminate revenge.
This single reflection will show that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay; and as this pecuniary idea corresponds again with the system of second redemptions, obtained through the means of money given to the church for pardons, the probability is that the same persons fabricated both the one and the other of those theories; and that, in truth, there is no such thing as redemption; that it is fabulous;

And the sea gave up the dead which are in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Remember that the man called Jesus Christ lived in an era of Roman occupation of Israel. The Romans were a big empire, stronger in those days than the USA is currently. They colonised almost the whole world. They had written documents, they had recorded history of there own rulers and governors sent to govern other places. Their recorded history confirmed that a man Jesus christ existed and carried out miraculous work. The documents from their archive confirmes that sometime after christ's death, the emperor Ceaser was sick and could not be cured by his doctors and his healers. He had heard the rumours of a youngman called Jesus  Christ who carried out miraculous works throughout israel. He then asked his people to ask his hs governor to summon Pilate to bring the youngman to Rome, so he can cure him. On hearing this, Pilate was alarmed, for Jesus Christ had died and resurrected and he had listened to the Jews who told him that he will be an enemy of Ceaser if he set Jesus Christ free. He sent word to Ceasar that Crist had been killed and after 3 days had resurrected and because he allowed an innocent man to be executed, Ceasr angrily summoned him to Rome. Subsequent events led to the death of Pilate. It was

So Chrisbegnor, did Jesus Christ exist? Yes he did, we are not haluccinating here. Did he die, yes he did. Did he ressurect, yes he did. There are other evidences apart from recorded Roman history supporting the existence of the Christ. The recorded history of the Hindu supports the existence of Jesus Christ. If you read the scripture, there was silence on what he did during adolescence till he was 29 yrs, before he received the Holy Spirit baptism. Well I can tell you. He went on ministry work to India, dong great work and teaching about love. Ancient Hidu script confirm this. It was while there in India that Mary sent him a message that his carnal Father, Joeseph had died. These things happened. Let me stop.

posakosa:
@ wirinet, my folks have told me that if I want to be married, I should not talk about my rape, report it, or discuss it with anyone,  and things will just go away.


If my folks won't support me, then who do I have on my side,  No one!

horse703:
i do not believe evolution has been proven by any of those fields u have mentioned, if so just give me a summary of how these prove evolution.

horse703:
so are u saying that since scientists were right and rome was wrong the same assumption could be applied to evolution?, that is really shallow thinking, wht about all those other theories that came up and have been found to be totally wrong? for example, early theories on heredity, preoformation and particulate thories, preformationists believed parents possesd a miniaturised version of a human beign in the reproductive cells, which will then be "cooked" in womans womb and grow, guess wht thousands of scientist including general public accepted this for years!!!, particulate theory says that,paraphrased, every single organ has particles that it distributes to beign to create a whole human beign, they believed this also for years, are they true now?!

DALLAS (Reuters Life!) – The current struggles between religion and science in areas such as evolution and "intelligent design" are thrown into sharp relief in a new book about the Italian astronomer Galileo and his trial by the Roman Inquisition.

Author Dan Hofstadter described the Galileo affair as "the great religion-science clash of 1633 that in some form has persisted into our time."

The focus of the trial was the scientist's embrace of the Copernican view that the Earth revolves around the sun - a view informed by the observations Galileo made with his famous telescope.

Christians had been ordered not to teach or promote the Copernican take on the solar system. It was essentially for this reason that Galileo found himself in hot water with the clerical establishment.

Hofstadter spoke with Reuters about his book "The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition," and the relevance of this 17th century episode today.

Q: You describe Galileo's trial as the "the great religion-science clash of 1633 that in some form has persisted into our own time." Can you elaborate?

A: "It has persisted into our own time in two ways. First the whole question of what a scientific theory is was raised at that time and it has been raised again by those who support intelligent design. It's essentially the same quarrel.

"The other point is that although Pope John Paul II said in 1992 that it was the error of the theologians of the time to think that, and I'm quoting now, 'our understanding of the world's physical structure was imposed by the literal sense of sacred scripture', the current Pope, Benedict XVI, when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger said in March of 1990 that the church was more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and went on to claim strangely that geocentricism, the idea that the Earth is at the center of the solar system, was correct.

"That's a very odd notion to claim nowadays. For that reason , professors at the University of La Sapienza in Rome brought a protest letter in January of 2008 to Benedict XVI and canceled his visit. So this whole issue has blown up again and it's analogous to the controversy over evolution in many ways."

Q: You raised the intelligent design movement, which critics contend is creationism by another name. On this topic, one would be hard pressed to find a fundamentalist Christian in the United States today who does not accept that the Earth revolves around the sun, but many reject out of hand evolution. Why do you think that is the case?

A. "People, of course, accept the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun but many, and not only in the United States but in a great many countries, surprisingly find themselves unable to accept the theory of evolution.

"The similarity here between what happened with the edict in 1616 against Copernicanism and the struggle against the Church of England's rejection of Darwinism in the 1860s, which in some sense persists worldwide to this day, the similarity has to with the failure to understand the notion of a scientific theory, and the inability to understand what it is to perceive nature, to know nature, which was really very understandable in 1616 , But (it) is much harder to understand or sympathize with now , The creationists do not understand the notion of a hypothesis."

Q: How do you think Galileo would react to today's conflicts between religion and science?

A. "I think he would react to (it) in much the same way as he did to the conflict then , Galileo's response was to say that the aim of scripture is not to teach science but to teach salvation."

Fhemmmy:
I hope you are not a tribalistic at all, cos i think it is a worm that causes some diseases.
However, WA and ZO together and make it look it is against the BIA is not healthy at all for the unity of the nation.
The "BIA" indigens never came out and contest for election and they are denied, i will vote for an igbo man, cos i have nothing against them, but i will not vote only cos he is Igbo, i wanna vote cos of his record, cos i know he can do something for Nigeria that others cant.
Whenever you wanna refer to the FG, no need to do the hausa, Yoruba and Igbo nonsense, just refer to the FG
They lost the war and that made Nigeria {not hausa and yoruba} a winner, and i think it is time they let go of that past, and move on from the war that was never a good thing anyways.
Instead of wallowing in self pity, it is time to move past that and let Nigeria lives.
Quebec wanted to seperate from Canada and they still trying to, but in the meantime, they are living together in harmony.
i am sure not all Ghana tribes are happy with resources sharing, but they working together for peace and unity, but Nija wanna show macho and their stupidity
Even if their papa planted the Oil there, they need to chill a little and not kill innocent cos of the Oil.
All the money they have made from kidnapping and grant, what have they got to show for it? nothing
Yet, they are whining that people are not bombing with them

tkb417:
are u for real?

The 1999 constitution is a decree? a constitution tht was adopted on the day we started the 4th republic journey?

and do i need to read the whole constitution to know that a state in Nigeria cannot lay claim to the resources in the land? Interesting. NL i hail thee!!
dont be too fast to post next time abegg

Fhemmmy:
U mean to tell me that the Igbos are now a slave of their father's slave?
If they are so insulted of the positions and the leadership that they have been given, why wont they reject it then?
besides, with all these noise, show me what most of the Igbo states has done to even develop their states, LG or environment?
I think it is time to stop bashing others for our own mysteries and face the problems and deal with the FG together as one

Fhemmmy:
i am so shocked to see how people are some block minded and tribalistic.
how is the problem in Niger-Delta a Yoruba or hausa's wahala, are they the FG?

tkb417:
where did u get that from? what about the Igbos in power?
or are Igbos not in Abuja?
story story

tkb417:
what part of the constitution lays credence to tht in bold?
what ure saying can land you in jail!

illegality!!!

they shld clamour for  a sovereign national conference which the yorubas have been fighting for. Then, we can start talking about how resources shld be shared.
akin fi ete le, ka pa lapalapa
u dont leave leprosy to treat ringworm

first things first so tigbo professor

These questions are meant for my fellow Niger-deltans who support the actions of MEND:
What have you done about the state governors, house of rep members, LG chairmen, and councillors that looted the treasuries of yours states?
From the billions of naira made by MEND through their activities, please list just ONE good thing they've contributed to their own local  society and the Niger-delta region at large.
How can you justify the killing of your own people and other fellow Nigerians by these criminals?

I support the agitations of MEND, but i do not necessarily support their actions. They need to be more organized and also have a political wing to gather political support from international organizations and governments. All other struggles made the political aspect as important as military operations. Also the mend boys do not even have the support of all the tribes of the Niger delta, they sometimes alienate other tribes.

How can Niger Deltans hold their elective office holders accountable, are the accountable to us? Do they require our votes and consent to get elected? hell no. They are more responsible to a few Hausa men or Yoruba men, who are usually responsible for their getting into office.  Most people in the Niger Delta do not know what a ballot paper looked like in the last 10 years.