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Why is Zamboanga del Sur called the Little Hongkong in the Philippines?
Pagadian City, gateway to Zamboanga del Sur, the largest province of Western Mindanao and also a point of entry to the cities of Ozamis, Iligan and Cotabato, has rolling terrain encompassing both commercial and residential districts, reminiscent of the famous Crown Colony and I branded it and eventually has earned for it the sobriquet Little Hong Kong of the South. Below is the link of my article which I posted to my blog after visiting Pagadian City in January 2006. I was really surprised to see that my branding of the city has spread like wildfire, yet local government officials themselves did not know anything about it. MONDAY, JANUARY 09, 2006 Pagadian City Vows To Become Regional Trading Hub ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR (Zamboanga Journal) Pagadian City, the provincial capital of Zamboanga del Sur, has began a massive and ambitious development project aimed at turning the once sleepy mountain enclave, into a bustling trading and government regional center in the southern Philippines. Home to about 160,000 people, Pagadian -- with a total land area of 37,880 hectares and 13 urban and 41 rural villages -- is one of the most vibrant and promising cities in Mindanao, said mayor Samuel Co. He said the aggressive increase in development projects were triggered by the recent transfer of major government regional agencies from Zamboanga City to Pagadian. And also the impending relocation near Pagadian of the Southern Command, the largest military installation outside Manila, now based in Zamboanga City. "We have allocated hundreds of millions of pesos to fund new infrastructure projects and the development of the regional center, the rehabilitation of our air and sea ports. "And the renovation of government buildings and sophisticated communications and other I.T. projects that would put Pagadian in the map of developed cities, not only in the Philippines, but also abroad," Co told the Zamboanga Journal. He said Pagadian is currently working on a P115-million fishing port complex, the P64-million public market. It has recently inaugurated a P14-million integrated bus depot. Co said they will also planning to put up a multi-million fruit processing plant. "Oh, we have a lot of work to do. Right now, we are busy on some development projects and we are also working on how to improve our ecotourism program," he said. Co said he also introduced the use of water wheels to generate electricity for farmers in far-flung villages. "Farmers are happy about the water wheels. Before they only see them in books and television, but now we are using water wheel to generate electricity in remote villages," he said. He said the local airliner Asian Spirit has opened new passenger flights between Manila to Pagadian. "We really worked hard and negotiated for this, and the Asian Spirit now has regular flights from Manila to Pagadian and back," he said. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ordered the transfer of all regional government offices and agencies to Pagadian to make transactions easy to other provinces such as Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur that comprise the Western Mindanao region. Arroyo's decision to transfer the regional offices was based on Executive Order 429 issued by then President Corazon Aquino in October 1990. Co said they paid the rental of regional government offices for six months as a gesture of goodwill to welcome the thousands of new tenants. Co said the regional Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and the Philippine Coconut Authority are now in Pagadian City. Agriculture and fishery are the main sources of income of local residents, but Co said the city is being groomed to become the region's main source of mango and seaweed capital. "Fishing is a major economic activity and also lumber processing due to the peninsula's excellent stands of Philippine hardwoods," he said. An attractive investment package would be offered to local and foreign business groups, he said, to lure them into opening trades in Pagadian or make the city a business gateway to other provinces in the region. Designated as a chartered city in June 1969, Pagadian is also an important processing center for rice, corn, and coconuts produced in surrounding areas, Co said. He said Pagadian is also known for being the "undisputed" cleanest and greenest city for several years now by different civic groups. "We have an excellent ecological solid waste management program, watershed management program, and a massive beautification project for the different villages, among others," Co said. He said his administration is also working on an ambitious tourism project that would attract not only Filipino visitors, but also foreign tourists. "Aside from being peaceful, Pagadian prides itself with many pristine and white sandy beaches. We offer our rich cultural heritage, our exotic foods and the kind hospitality of our people," the 39-year old mayor said. The internationally renowned Pagadian Kumbingan Ensemble, a cultural and creative dance group, won many accolade during its latest performance in the recent Singapore Street Festival. The event gathered Asian cultural artists and workers in a one-day festival of performances and cultural exhibitions as part of the annual Singapore Arts Festival. The Kumbingan Ensemble performed folk and traditional Muslim dances, and was critically acclaimed by international artists. In December, Co brought his cultural pride in Zamboanga City for the annual mardi gras called the Zamboanga Hermosa Festival and was highly acclaimed for their dance performances. He said they have set aside unspecified funding for the trainings and costumes not only of the Kumbingan Ensemble, but other cultural groups also. "Pagadian is one of the country's show windows and everybody is really working hard to promote tourism and attract investments, not only in my place, but in the southern region as well," he said. Pagadian is popularly called the "Little Hong Kong of the South" because of its rolling terrain, reminiscent of the former Crown colony.
What questions oppose evolution?
Answer 1There are no serious questions in the scientific community that create a stumbling block for evolution by natural selection. One of the main sources of negative questions concerning evolution is that those who reject the idea, usually on religious grounds, think that evolution is a replacement for all aspects of Creation and therefore target, primarily, questions that Creation answers but that Evolution says nothing about.Evolution by natural selection only asserts that each creature, even each sex within the same creature, and the general environment exerts a selection pressure on every other creature. These selection pressures will guide a species to center on a particular variant within the species best suited for the environment. That variant will then become the new base and the selection pressures will narrow again. Over millions of years, this will result in species going extinct completely or in one area and being replaced by a different but similar species. Eventually, this will result in creatures significantly different than the original creature.Evolution does not deal with abiogenesis which is the idea that life can come from non-life. Evolution requires something to be living to be alive for it to work. Many people raise the question of abiogenesis, which has much less evidence than evolution in order to question evolution. However, since evolution does not deal with abiogenesis, the questions are irrelevant to evolution per se.Evolution does not deal with early cosmology, the formation of the universe, or the formation of the solar system and Earth. Evolution is a biological theory, not a physics or cosmological theory. However, some individuals will ask, "If you believe in evolution, where did the Earth come from?" Evolution has no connection to that answer. It would be like asking, "If you believe that Jesus was resurrected after three days, why did Buddha need to starve himself for forty-nine days to receive revelation?" The two fields are irrelevant to one another.[See the discussion section for more of a debate on some semantics about evolution.]Answer 2Although the prevailing opinion regarding origins has the majority of scientists in support, many of these acknowledge that there are a number of questions which remain unanswered regarding evolutionary theory. Most would agree that these questions, while unresolved, do not 'oppose evolution' but are merely unresolved questions. Noted atheist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins in an interview about his book "The Greatest Show on Earth" referred to four of his favourite "unsolved mysteries" as follows:1. The origin of life- "That is a complete mystery" he said.2. The origin of sex.3. The origin of consciousness.4. The rise of morality.(source: Boyle, A., The not-so- angry evolutionist, 14th October 2009)The evolutionist G A Kerkut defined what is called the 'general theory of evolution' (GTE) as 'the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.' Dawkins, as mentioned above, (as do many other evolutionists) regard this issue as one that remains to be solved. Some evolutionists try to suggest that the origin of life issue is not connected with evolution at all. However, this has not generally been so from Darwin himself onwards.Evolutionist Gordy Slack states on this issue, "I think it is disingenuous to argue that the origin of life is irrelevant to evolution. It is no less relevant than the Big Bang is to physics or cosmology. Evolution should be able to explain, in theory at least, all the way back to the very first organism that could replicate itself...And to understand that organism fully, we would simply have to know what came before it. And right now we are nowhere close." (Slack,G What neo-creationists get right-an evolutionist shares lesson's he's learned from the intelligent design camp, The Scientist, 20 June 2008).Other scientists highlight the following issues which remain to be addressed:1. Information Theory (i.e. biological information): Living things contain masses of information encoded in their DNA, as well as the code-reading mechanism, together with the epigenetic code which controls gene expression. Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker (p115) stated There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Brittanica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over." In The Greatest Show on Earth (page 405) Dawkins states, "The difference between life and non-life is a matter not of substance but information. Living things contain prodigious quantities of information.An intelligent message always requires an intelligent sender. This would appear to be simply impossible through random unguided naturalistic means. Computer simulations where evolutionists control the result through their intelligent input and produce a result supposedly showing evolution can happen are far removed from the real world due to the unrealistic scenarios favourable to their outcome.2. Mutations: do not create new Genetic information necessary for microbes to man evolution to work. For a dinosaur to change into a bird would require an incredible amount of new DNA to be written into its genome. Mutations are shown universally in science to be harmful in terms of the information content. Where an organism benefits from a mutation there is still no increase in information but often a loss. Dawkins himself when asked could not give one single example of an information-adding mutation.3. Natural Selection considered to be a mechanism of evolution can only select from what is already there (and there often is a high degree of adaptability in the genome of various species e.g. all the different dog breeds but still all dogs). Nothing new is ever created by natural selection, as shown by the modern science of genetics, developed since Darwin's time. As someone aptly stated -natural selection may explain survivalof the fittest, but it doesn't explain arrival of the fittest.4.Genetic Entropy- although estimates vary (some higher some lower) human geneticists generally agree that the human genome is accumulating around 100 new mutations per person per generation. These mutations are too small to produce measurable effects and so are not 'weeded out' by natural selection. Geneticists also note the 100's of mendelian genetic disorders in mankind. These figures also suggest strongly that mankind should not exist at all if it as old as postulated.
