Should we be De-Evolving?

I think that Humans have been Devolving since Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden. I mean look at us? Animals are better people than humans are. Animals don't rape or murder without reason, they don't eat more than they need, they don't kill for sport, they aren't homosexual, etc. The earlier offspring of Adam and Eve would be embarrassed to call us relitives.

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Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.

"Almost every animal will eat what is made avaliable to it. Obese pets are common. Wild animals don't tend to be fat because fat animals tend to get chased down and killed."
House pets have almost no natural instincts. In the wild, they eat all they need when they can, but they don't just sit around eating for no reason like humans.
"Yeah they do. Rape is commonplace in the animal world; some species more than others. Infanticide is common, too."
The 'rape' is not intended in the human way. Humans rape for power, animals do it to reproduce. Infanticide is not used without reason in the wild. Generally, survival of the group is more important, but some species do kill the offspring of another.
"We've observed hmosexuality in hundreds of different animal species. There's a pair of gay penguin parents in the San Diego zoo; two males who mate with each other and are raising a chick from an abandoned egg."
I have never heard that before, but it's probley because they are in captivity. Does one perhaps have a genetic defect? Perhaps female genes and male genetalia?
Age and wisdom are not synonamous. You can have one without the other so don't dismiss me as an ignorant 14 year old, please.

Forgive me, but I said that the animals may be homosexual because of genetic defects because it is in my belief that homosexuality is wrong, and it clearly states in the Bible that it is. I have no objection to homosexuals as people, I'm friends with a few, but it is wrong to my belief.

Thank you for the mental stimulation none the less. I irratate my teachers the way I have probley just irratated you all, lol. I forget that religion and sciene rarely mixes. Anyway, I still think that homosexuality is wrong, and that when animals show homosexual behaviors, its a fluke that can be explained otherwise. But again, thank you for listening to my ranting. Mum says its time for bed, so I must depart from further conversation.

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Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.

Thank you for the mental stimulation none the less. I irratate my teachers the way I have probley just irratated you all, lol. I forget that religion and sciene rarely mixes. Anyway, I still think that homosexuality is wrong, and that when animals show homosexual behaviors, its a fluke that can be explained otherwise. But again, thank you for listening to my ranting. Mum says its time for bed, so I must depart from further conversation. I think I conradicted my own signature.

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Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.

How are you supposed to delete these?This message has been edited by TheClashFan, 11-20-2004 12:04 AM

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Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.

I cannot belive that animals rape for power. I cannot belive that animals kill for no reason. Animals supposedly don't reason, so how can they choose do things that aren't instinctive or useful?

Your comment on the animals reasoning skills are noted, but I am still to be convinced. As for the rape, men aren't the only ones who rape. Women can too, and I think no matter the sex, rape is for power, unless of course we're dealing with men in a sexual situation in which they have been teased enough and cannot relax. From what I've heard, that it very painful, and I don't doubt it.

I know that I shouldn't be saying this, but I belive whales to have a different kind of intelligence similar to humans, as well as elephants and primates. Was the seal killed on accident? Did the seal eventually get eaten?

Again, I must reply by stating that cats are domestic. Domestic animals are different from wild animals, though I understand that animals, domestic or wild, will kill to protect their turf.

True. I guess that I am changing my mind from all of the input from everyone here. You all should feel proud, getting me to change my ideas so quickly. In the short time that I have been using these forums, several of my original ideas have changed, and for that I thank all of you.

I suppose that I should have chosen a different wording instead of intelligence. Elephants, whales, and some species of primates show human like emotions rather than intelligence.

Well, whale songs change. Elephants cry when one of their number dies, and when they come across the place or body of the lost member, they morn. Some types of primates morn for their dead also. Some mothers will carry around their dead infants for weeks, trying to feed and take care of it until it is too deformed to continue pretending.

I understand that my ideas and opinions will change many, many times before I even become an adult.

Clever.

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Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.