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Because the benefits, such as cures to deadly diseases and so on, will save thousands of lives. I don't like the idea of animal testing, but it is one of ...

Because ultimately the value of human life has to outweigh the value of animal life.

I think it is a necessary evil if it used in research for medicines to counter, for example, cancer. As long as the animals are treated as humanely as possible, ...

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How did nobody notice... :? :D

Possibly. I think it is more likely the word 'cud' has been mistranslated from the word 'grass.' Or they got it wrong, I don't know.

Even 10000 years (which I think is the earliest point in the Bible) is not enough time for such a major biological shift.

I'm perfectly willing to accept I might very well be wrong, and there is a Christian God. I just didn't like the way you phrased 'there could possibly no errors ...

Two thousand years is not enough time for a species to change that drastically. Evolutions happens over millions, not thousands, of years. I think that chewing cud requires two stomachs, ...

Cud is, as you said, regurgitated food. But in, for example, cows, the cow eats grass, regurgitates it back up into the mouth, and eats it again. Hares cannot do ...

All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. If you looked at the context of the verse, you would find that it is refering ...

As for the errors, how do you know that? God could have created them with 4 legs and chewing the cud. We don't know. Er, no . :? There is ...

Contradictions: 2 Kings 8:26 says "Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign..." 2 Chronicles 22:2 says "Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he ...

Can I just point out that there are examples of homosexuality between animals as well. This is why I believe it is innate, and not physiological.

OK. These people could be right in saying that our holy book is completely wrong. I would appreciate it if you, in turn, respect the fact that there could possibly ...