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  1. Mr Strawberry

    Murder comes naturally to chimpanzees.

    Saw this article on the BBC website today: BBC News - Murder 'comes naturally' to chimpanzees It's based on an article in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v513/n7518/full/nature13727.html Apparently killing/murder in chimps is dependent on population density of chimps in an area...
  2. Mr Strawberry

    Duck sex, Aesthetic evolution and the origin of beauty

    I stumbled across this article/converstion and thought it was absolutely fascinating and full of the sort of material that would provide food for thought not only for evolution fans but also creationists who believe that aesthetics and beauty are divinely bestowed and not part of evolution's...
  3. Mr Strawberry

    Psychotropic wine might explain a lot.

    Wine in Canaan in 1600 BC was laced with psychotropic resins, according to archaeologists. I don't know about you, but I don't find this the least bit surprising. Archeologists Discovered a Stash of 3,700-Year-Old Psychotropic Wine | Smart News Vintage WINE laid down in SIXTEEN HUNDRED BC...
  4. Mr Strawberry

    Lawrence Krauss interview: Atheism and the Spirit of Science.

    Interesting little interview (25 minutes long) with Lawrence Krauss about the spiritual satisfaction he gets from the scientific examination of the universe and the world we live in. The interview ranges over quite a few subjects that are debated on this forum, but the spirituality angle...
  5. Mr Strawberry

    When people quote Bible verses do you bother reading them?

    This is just a quick query to see whether I am the only person here who is guilty of jumping over Bible quotes in posts and just reading the person's own thoughts. If I see Bible verses in a post I tend to scan over them reading something like "And the Lord did ...blah blah blah...skips rest of...
  6. Mr Strawberry

    Have you lived in a community where your beliefs were not the norm?

    I'm curious to know if any creationist here has spent a significant amount of time living in a non-creationist community. In my day to day life, in a fairly ordinary area of rural England, religion is simply never mentioned, and every time I pop in this forum and start reading fundamentalist...