Posted on 05/19/2008 5:14:35 PM PDT by Pizonce11
As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural?
On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-sex lovin' is common in hundreds of species, scientists say.
Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched.
According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others.
If homosexuality is natural in the animal kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn't eliminated this trait from the gene pool, since it doesn't lead to reproduction.
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Omg....there goes my dinner!
Depends on what she looks like
More likely they live in either San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Hmmm, didn’t think of that but you’re right ....
Animals will drink anywhere they find water, does that mean we should?
Animals stalk their prey and kill and eat it raw, does that mean we should?
Animals clean themselves, and defecate wherever they happen to be, does that mean we should?
We are humans, with conscience and cognitive thought ability. At least most of us are. I for one, do not believe any of the “zoo” stories, but even if they were true, hello...........they are animals, are we?
[FWAP!] Upside the head with a nerf bat...
;-)
ROFL!!
Yep. Same goes for the New York Yankees and anyone who attended Colegio San Ignacio.
Fat cartoon Homers need love too.
Any Darwinians want to explain “natural homosexuality”?There's no definitive explanation that I know of. But if you look at the role of self-negating behaviors, like sacrificing yourself to save your group(i.e. sheep bellwethers, prairie dogs), in the evolution of social animals, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that homos are beneficial in a social hierarchy, ensuring the propagation of people that are related to them(thereby increasing the spread of homosexual genes).
The results of the twins studies also applies to mental illnesses such as schizoprenia, which could hardly be said to be an adaptive outcome of genetics. I'd hazard to guess that even those cases where genetics plays a large part the outcome is still an anomalyThere's a school of thought these days that schizophrenia is a byproduct of the evolution of human intelligence. So yes, schizophrenia could be an adaptive outcome.
Funny, I’ve never seen a picture of two male penguins having sex.
The “Odd Couple” lived together for years, but were not homosexuals.
At least where AIDS is concerned, not true at all. There is a Feline AIDS Virus.
http://cats.about.com/cs/healthissues/a/fiv_in_cats.htm
There is a Simian AIDS Virus as well.
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102255246.html
Homosexuals need to keep in mind, however, that the good news of the gospel is not about how God despises same-sex sexual relationships. In fact, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 indicates that certain members of that church had been slaves to such relationships but had been cleansed in Jesus' name. So these former homosexuals had evidently repented and accepted God's grace to straighten their lives out.
John 3:16
Revelation 3:20
Sounds like these Fox gals and guys have come down here on the border to view in person the Senorita Madam, My Friend Flicka, Rin Tin Tin and Mr. Ed A Horse Is A Horse Of Course doing the dirty on stage.
Does anyone know if the Reverend Wright has finished his latest hate book for Dummies “Pickin Up White Chicks In A Mosque”?
Ya, dogs eat cat $hit too!
What do these reprobates think they’re proving by this comparison?
What separates humans from animals? The ability to reason at a very high level...thinking and making moral choices.
Actually, schizophrenia is maladaptive, not adaptive. Adaptive outcomes have benefits.
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