Save the planet?

With the life threatening catastrophes happening all around the Earth and global warming approaching, human beings have realized the statement regarding the end of their civilization on this planet might soon become a reality. The leaders of the leading countries are currently trying to compromise on their responsibilities in slowing the effect of global warming by holding a series of incessant international workshops and so called “the G8 summit”. The main and mutual target achieved is to reduce their massive carbon dioxide emission respectively, for example, China should attempt to reduce 50% of that by taking appropriate and urgent incentives by the year 2020 if I’m not mistaken. However this could undoubtedly bar the countries involved from achieving a new height in terms of economic development. When each of them is suspicious about the happening of possible circumstances that some of their “alliance” might be trying to opt for violating the agreement made to overtake the others economically, the compromise is at stake at this very moment where global warming time bomb is on the verge to have entirely exploded. It seems that all of us have been brainwashed that the green house gases emitted by burning fuels do all the matters. We are encouraged to carpool, use public transports and so on, we point our fingers to car and factory exhausts when we are asked about the factors contributing to global warming. Miserably, most of us have omitted a greatest approach we could practice to tackle this existing yet “hard-to-eradicate” problem, which is just very simple – become a vegetarian.

Although I always remain sceptical towards all kinds of statistics and researches made to draw a conclusion proving something the professionals intended to, there is one I would like to refer assuming it is credible – if we make use of all the crops as the source of human food, no one on this planet would starve, even if we don’t have those harvesting machines. To elaborate on it for those who never came across with this, I would like to tell you, our food is turned into meat in large ratio. Why? In general, crop such as wheat is used to feed poultry, across the trophic level, approximately 90% of the energy would be lost, therefore we have wasted 90% of the energy that could potentially be supplied to ourselves. However you might wonder how the lost in energy could make sense with solving global warming. Now there is another research showing the carbon dioxide exhaled by poultry is surprisingly greater than the emission by vehicles in the world. Personally I don’t like to justify something using results of research, put the deduction aside, the remaining possibilities are what we could reflect on. Being a vegetarian is not merely confined in religious practice, it is a potential way by which human can really save our environment. How if the government starts encouraging the residents by setting a day in every week to take vegetarian food?

Frankly, I’m not a vegetarian, but a vegetarian-to-be, not sure when to become full time vegetarian. I take vegetables whenever possible, and it gives a healthier lifestyle =)

Happy birthday mama!

This is a delayed post, as it is meant to be posted on Thursday, 14-01-2010. Thanks to the half-day breakdown of electricity.


Today is my mother’s birthday!

So now you know this post is dedicated to her =)

Here is some introduction:

My mother, madam Ooi Kim Lee is more conservative than my father. We are less likely to share secret or feeling, but deep inside our heart, both of us know how much we care about each other. The best word to describe her is “moderate”, and, she has the best smile in my eyes =)

Being the first son to leave home in order to seek for a further study, I know how much she misses me, as whenever I occasionally went back to home during holidays, I noticed she would cook my favourite food in almost every meal!

The intriguing thing is that she seldom questioned nor rejected my demands, such as hanging around with friends at night which most of the parents disallow, participating in numberless co-curriculum activities, and asking for more money to spend, therefore normally my requests would be directed to my mother in order to be granted a quick and clear permission without my father’s notice :p

She has been working as a chemistry teacher of a secondary school for a long term of time, that’s why I could still be able to proudly announce chemistry as my “pet subject” despite the fact that I was fairly lazy during the period preparing for SPM examination. Under her experienced guiding, I have developed most of the fundamental and critical concepts that is still currently driving myself through A-Level syllabus in a relatively easy way. She is the best chemistry teacher I have ever had!

I enjoy the moderate freedom and continuous support given by my mother. Although she never voiced out her personal anticipation concerning my future, I do know that she puts so much of her hope on me such that someday she would be able to share the happiness of being excelled under her inculcation.



Maybe she hasn’t realized, I love her as much as she loves me =)

Happy birthday Mama! ;D

Randomly arranged? Designed?

Note: I would like to apologize for not being able to convey my thoughts precisely due to my limited access towards the terminologies involved and scarce proficiency in the language used. Ignore the syntax errors, and try to broaden your mindset to walk with me. This article is not written under the intention of offending nor challenging any believers that hinge to the conviction that our world is created by the only entity namely God. I find it fairly intriguing when I recently discovered I do have some points to raise in response to religious topics which I never really concerned.

To which extent do you believe our world is perfectly designed? You would be indoctrinated by tonnes of preaches convincing you the “truth” since childhood if born in a family held tightly to Christianity. You might question what you had been perceiving, or you might not. Most of those converted clearly understand the conflict they experienced that you might not. To those holding fideism, which compartmentalizes reason and faith, and believes merely on faith, believe or not, the argument that seemed as solid as rock to you has been an object of ridicule in some others eyes, mostly allegedly you may guess, but you should also be careful it is possible that the one with blindfold might not necessarily be those defying your faith.

In this article I focus only on the aspect whether the premise “world is created and perfectly designed” could be a strong argument. In certain books, some experts including scientists pointed out that the discoveries of science are actually in the direction of proving the existence of an intelligent creator. Cosmology, biology, physics and many other fields related on the basis of science are actually contributing to the conviction of theism, according to them. For example, the human genes, the biological molecules are miraculously coordinated. The laws of physics are designed such that the integrative complexity could be resolved using mathematics and logics. No one could explain why the speed of light must be approximately 300000000 metre per second. In similar context, they infer all of these behave beyond the naturalistic explanation. It is unnatural, where there is no chance to have the same situation happening if random ways are to replace it.

They always amaze us by using probability to show us how impossible it could be if random way goes. Yes, random nature is the point I advocate. You tell me in order for the human DNA to function properly, it takes certain probability to account for the systematic and perfect matches by monomers namely nucleotides, and to be able to synthesis proteins using amino acids, so it takes another probability. It goes on until how these biological molecules interact with each other, how the blood clotting mechanism is, how systems in a human body work by calculating the probabilities, and deducing it is almost impossible that human stays alive! You could have told someone, look, the probability is one over ten to the power of integer with astronomical number of digits behind, it is approaching zero, so the world we are living is not randomly arranged! You got a point, I have come across with a lot of so called evidences such as “do you know that if the earth is orbiting slightly nearer or further to the sun, the earth would be either too hot or too cold to sustain life? How amazing!” or “if the universe is expanding at a rate that is a little faster or slower, we could not have a universe that would be capable of supporting life!” They are indeed amazing, but to me it makes no sense to support theism.

People often attribute the fine-tuned universe we are living to the mighty creation by the god simply because it provides a better explanation where science has failed to do so, especially to explain the origin of universe and life. Now try to reflect on the probability. Let say something will happen by the chance of 1/100000000. When it does happen, can we say “99999999 circumstances have failed, and the one happening is right beside us.”? The same logic goes on if you insist to use probability. You say “our universe is created by god because it is fine-tuned!”, why can’t I say “according to your probability 1/N to have such a fine-tuned universe, we can have equal number N-1 of not-fine-tuned universes besides the one we have!”? Isn’t that there are more chances to have something not happening than just happening? As you know universe is vast, who knows there are universes in other dimensions of realms with more physical elements other than just time, space and matter? It could just happen =)

Thank you for finishing my rambling, sorry if you felt offended or annoyed, but that is truly what atheists think, and they may have the same feeling when you say "yours is the wrong one."

Not to forget to thank SuSu my senior who borrowed me the book "The Case For A Creator", I learned a lot =)