Yes. I was making a generic comment about the motives behind some ritual killing of animals, not focussing only on the OP.
I can agree with this. I'm not against eating meat per se, and understand that it is a necessity across the world. People need sustenance and, as omnivores, meat is what...
Yes, I know. Sorry.
I agree. Many activist vegetarians are working towards this.
Again, I agree. It was Marble, in her second post, who brought up animals used for food.
And this goes back to my original point. I'm happy to leave aside the issue of animals as food in this discussion...
I'll let these unsupported claims pass for the moment.
It's an open forum. If you didn't want a response from a vegetarian, you should have put a disclaimer on your first post.:sarcastic
It's not any better or worse, IMO. Killing in the name of a belief system is rather sick.
That's right.
As a vegetarian, I'm not in favour of this level of killing either.
You make it sound as though it is obligatory to have ritual killing. Animals don't need to be killed ritualistically. Apart from some apparent psychological 'benefit' to the practitioner through the letting of...
Killing in the name of a belief system isn't justified, IMO. If a religion advocated ritual slaughter of dogs, say, would we think it is okay? Why should be it okay for birds?
I agree. As JarofThoughts said, although the mirror test is useful for certain species, it has a bias towards visually-oriented animals. Also, most of these tests are performed on a small number of captive animals, providing only a very small data set. From this, there is a tendency to...
The team employed an anatomist.
If you're interested, have a look at this report:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/content/1/c6/02/21/27/summary-interim-report-2006.pdf
If you get the chance, watch this NatGeo documentary. It was aired in the UK last week.
Stonehenge Decoded TV Show - National...
A recent idea is that Stonehenge was originally used as a burial site:
Stonehenge may have been ‘the domain of the dead’ for royals - Times Online
As you can see, several others have amply addressed your above point to me. Regarding evidence for creationism, lunakilo has started a thread asking for such evidence. Perhaps you could provide us with it.
http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/evolution-vs-creationism/119852-proof-creation.html