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Old 02-19-2003, 05:12 PM   #1
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Talking Headline: Lesbian Japanese monkeys challenge Darwin's assumptions
Article at Telegraph.co.uk

As someone remarked on ChristianForums, you don't see a headline like that every day.
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Old 02-19-2003, 05:27 PM   #2
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Huh? But we've known about this kind of thing for ages!
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Old 02-19-2003, 06:06 PM   #3
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The moral of the story is that female Japanese macaques have clits and Victorian human women didn't.

Totally kidding.
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Old 02-19-2003, 07:16 PM   #4
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I think it would attract more hits if it read :
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Hot Lesbian Japanese monkeys challenge Darwin's assumptions
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Old 02-19-2003, 09:32 PM   #5
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Did Darwin ever make such a sweeping claim? Does anyone know what he actually said?

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Old 02-19-2003, 10:03 PM   #6
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Did Darwin ever make such a sweeping claim? Does anyone know what he actually said?

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He worked out a theory of sexual selection, I think it was to explain peacock tails. Female choice as a selction pressure. NOT very popular in its time.
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I think that the conclusion of this article has to be that Darwin may have been slightly mistaken in one aspect of his theory and therefore evolution is wrong and the world was created by God 6,000 years ago.

It is as yet unclear why God's Great Plan(tm) involves sexually agressive lesbian monkeys.
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Did Darwin ever make such a sweeping claim? Does anyone know what he actually said?

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When the revolution comes, hyperbolic, headline-grabbing science journalists will be the first against the wall, I promise you.

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Old 02-20-2003, 12:54 PM   #9
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I don't think anyone in the article was questioning the basic tenets of evolution were they? Just one aspect of Darwinism. So really, this contributes nothing to a creationists cause, in fact
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It is as yet unclear why God's Great Plan(tm) involves sexually agressive lesbian monkeys.
it would seem to be an excellent demonstartion of the faults of intelligent design "theories".
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Old 02-20-2003, 01:12 PM   #10
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Smile Isn't it obvious?
These monkeys are just confused.

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