Intelligent design Question: How come 450 species of animals world-wide routinely engage in homosexuality?

Question

If sex was intended for procreation?

(McFarlane & Markwell, 2004).

hello Brett A :(

HOMOSEXUALS, NATURALLY., By: MacFarlane, Geoff, Markwell, Kevin, Nature Australia, 13242598, Autumn2004, Vol. 27, Issue 12

Brian,

don't scholarly journals have to pass peer review?

Answer 1

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you asked for it.

right here animal species known to practice homosexuality.

Acanthocephalan Worms
Acorn Woodpecker
Adelie Penguin
African Buffalo
African Elephant
Agile Wallaby
Alfalfa Weevil
Amazon Molly
Amazon River Dolphin
American Bison
Anna's Humminbird
Anole sp.
Aoudad
Aperea
Appalachian Woodland Salamander
Asiatic Elephant
Asiatic Mouflon
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
Australian Parasitic Wasp sp.
Australian Sea Lion
Australian Shelduck
Aztec Parakeet
Bank Swallow
Barasingha
Barbary Sheep
Barn Owl
Bean Weevil sp.
Bedbug and other Bug spp.
Beluga
Bangalese Finch (Domestic)
Bezoar
Bharal
Bicolored Antbird
Bighorn Sheep
Black Bear
Black-billed Magpie
Blackbuck
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-footed Rock Wallaby
Black-headed Gull
Black-rumped Flameback
Black-spotted Frog
Black Stilt
Blackstripe Topminnow
Black Swan
Black-tailed Deer
Black-winged Stilt
Blister Beetle spp.
Blowfly
Blue-backed Manakin
Blue-bellied Roller
Bluegill Sunfish
Blue Sheep
Blue Tit
Blue-winged Teal
Bonnet Macaque
Bonobo
Boto
Bottlenose Dolphin
Bowhead Whale
Box Crab
Bridled Dolphin
Broad-headed Skink
Broadwinged Damselfly sp.
Brown Bear
Brown Capuchin
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brown Long-eared Bat
Brown Rat
Budgeriger (Domestic)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Rush Dog
Cabbage (Small) White
Calfbird
California Gull
Canada Goose
Canary-winged Parakeet
Caribou
Caspian Tern
Cat (Domestic)
Cattle (Domestic)
Cattle Egret
Chaffinch
Char
Checkered Whiptail Lizard
Checkerspot Butterfly
Cheetah
Chicken (Domestic)
Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail Lizard
Chiloe Wigeon
Cliff Swallow
Clubtail Dragonfly spp.
Cockroach spp.
Collared Peccary
Cammerson's Dolphin
Common Ameiva
Common Brushtail Possum
Common Chimpanzee
Common Dolphin
Common Garter Snake
Common Gull
Common Marmoset
Common Murre
Common Pipistrelle
Common Racoon
Common Shelduck
Common Skimmer Dragonfly spp.
Common Tree Shrew
Cotton-top Tamarin
Crab-eating Macaque
Crane spp.
Creeping Water Bug sp.
Crested Black Macaque
Cuban Green Anole
Cui
Dall's Sheep
Daubenton's Bat
Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard
Desert Tortoise
Digger Bee
Dog (Domestic)
Doria's Tree Kangaroo
Dragonfly spp.
Dugong
Dusky Moorhen
Dwarf Cavy
Dwarf Mongoose
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
Eastern Giant Ichneumon
Eastern Gray Kangaroo
Egyptian Goose
Elegant Parrot
Elk
Emu
Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer
Euro
European Bison
European Bitterling
European Jay
European Shag
Fallow Deer
False Killer Whale
Fat-tailed Dunnart
Fence Lizard
Field Cricket sp.
Fin Whale
Five-lined Skink
Flamingo
Fruit Fly spp.
Galah
Gelada Baboon
Gentoo Penguin
Giraffe
Glasswing Butterfly
Goat (Domestic)
Golden Bishop Bird
Golden Monkey
Golden Plover
Gopher (Pine) Snake
Gorilla
Grant's Gazelle
Grape Berry Moth
Grape Borer
Gray-breasted Jay
Gray-capped Social Weaver
Gray-headed Flying Fox
Gray Heron
Grayling
Gray Seal
Gray Squirrel
Gray Whale
Great Cormorant
Greater Bird of Paradise
Greater Rhea
Green Anole
Green Lacewing
Green Sandpiper
Greenshank
Green Swordtail
Greylag Goose
Griffon Vulture
Grizzly Bear
Guiana Leaffish
Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock
Guillemot
Guinea Pig (Domestic)
Hamadryas Baboon
Hammerhead
Hamster (Domestic)
Hanuman Lanur
Harbor Porpoise
Harbor Seal
Harvest Spider sp.
Hawaiin Orb-Weaver
Hen Flea
Herring Gull
Himalayan Tahr
Hoary-headed Grebe
Hoary Marmot
Hooded Warbler
Horse (Domestic)
House Fly
House Sparrow
Houting Whitefish
Humboldt Penguin
Ichneumon Wasp sp.
Incirrate Octopus spp.
Inagua Curlytail Lizard
Indian Fruit Bat
Indian Mantjac
Indian Rhinoceros
Ivory Gull
Jackdaw
Jamaican Giant Anole
Japanese Scarab Beetle
Japanese Macaque
Javelina
Jewel Fish
Jumping Spider sp.
Kangaroo Rat
Kestrel
Killer Whale
King Penquin
Kittiwake
Koala
Kob
Larch Bud Moth
Laredo Striped Whiptail Lizard
Larga Seal
Largehead Anole
Large Milkweed Bug
Large White
Laughing Gull
Laysan Albatross
Least Chipmunk
Least Darter
Lechwe
Lesser Bushbaby
Lesser Flamingo
Lesser Scaup Duck
Lion
Lion-tailed Macaque
Lion Tamarin
Little Blue Heron
Little Brown Bat
Little Egret
Livingstone's Fruit Bat
Long-eared Hedgehog
Long-footed Tree Shrew
Long-legged Fly spp.
Long-tailed Hermit Hummingbird
Mallard Duck
Markhor
Marten
Masked Lovebird
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
Mazarine Blue
Mealy Amazon Parrot
Mediterranean Fruit Fly
Mew Gull
Mexican Jay
Mexican White
Midge sp.
Migratory Locust
Mite sp.
Moco
Mohol Galago
Monarch Butterfly
Moor Macaque
Moose
Mountain Dusky Salamander
Mountain Goat
Mountain Tree Shrew
Mountain Zebra
Mourning Gecko
Mouse (Domestic)
Mouthbreeding Fish sp.
Mule Deer
Mustached Tamarin
Musk Duck
Musk-ox
Mute Swan
Narrow-winged Damselfly spp.
Natterer's Bat
New Zealand Sea Lion
Nilgiri Langur
Noctule
North American Porcupine
Northern Elephant Seal
Northern Fur Seal
Northern Quoll
Ocellated Antbird
Ocher-bellied Flycatcher
Olympic Marmot
Orange Bishop Bird
Orange-footed Parakeet
Orangutan
Orca
Ornate Lorikeet
Ostrich
Oystercatcher
Pacific Striped Dolphin
Parsnip Leaf Miner
Patas Monkey
Peach-faced Lovebird
Pere David's Deer
Pied Flycatcher
Pied Kingfisher
Pig (Domestic)
Pigeon (Domestic)
Pig-tailed Macaque
Plains Zebra
Plateau Striped Whiptail Lizard
Polar Bear
Pomace Fly
Powerful Owl
Prea
Pretty-faced Wallaby
Proboscis Monkey
Pronghorn
Przewalski's Horse
Pukeko
Puku
Purple Swamphen
Pygmy Chimpanzee
Queen Butterfly
Quokka
Rabbit (Domestic)
Raccoon Dog
Raggiana's Bird of Paradise
Rat (Domestic)
Raven
Razorbill
Red Ant sp.
Red-backed Shrike
Red Bishop Bird
Red Deer
Red Diamond Rattlesnake
Red-faced Lovebird
Red Flour Beetle
Red Fox
Red Kangaroo
Red-necked Wallaby
Redshank
Red-shouldered Widowbird
Red Squirrel
Red-tailed Skink
Reeve's Muntjac
Regent Bowerbird
Reindeer
Reindeer Warble Fly
Rhesus Macaque
Right Whale
Ring-billed Gull
Ring Dove
Rock Cavy
Rock Dove
Rodrigues Fruit Bat
Roe Deer
Roseate Cockatoo
Roseate Tern
Rosechafer
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Rove Beetle spp.
Ruff
Ruffed Grouse
Rufous Bettong
Rufous-naped Tamarin
Rufous Rat Kangaroo
Saddle-back Tamarin
Sage Grouse
Salmon spp.
San Blas Jay
Sand Martin
Satin Bowerbird
Savanna Baboon
Scarab Beetle, Melolonthine
Scarlet Ibis
Scottish Crossbill
Screwworm Fly
Sea Otter
Senegal Parrot
Serotine Bat
Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Sheep (Domestic)
Siamang
Side-blotched Lizard
Sika Deer
Silkworm Moth
Silver Gull
Silvery Grebe
Slender Tree Shrew
Snow Goose
Sociable Weaver
Sooty Mangabey
Southeastern Blueberry Bee
Southern Green Stink Bug
Southern Masked Chafer
Southern One-Year Canegrub
Southern Platyfish
Speckled Rattlesnake
Sperm Whale
Spinifex Hopping Mouse
Spinner Dolphin
Spotted Hyena
Spotted Seal
Spreadwinged Damselfly spp.
Spruce Budworm Moth
Squirrel Monkey
Stable Fly sp.
Stag Beetle spp.
Steller's Sea Eagle
Striped Dolphin
Stuart's Marsupial Mouse
Stumptail Macaque
Superb Lyrebird
Swallow-tailed Manakin
Swamp Deer
Swamp Wallaby
Takhi
Talapoin
Tammar Wallaby
Tasmanian Devil
Tasmanian Native Hen
Tasmanian Rat Kangaroo
Tengger Desert Toad
Ten-spined Stickleback
Thinhorn Sheep
Thomson's Gazelle
Three-spined Stickleback
Tonkean Macaque
Tree Swallow
Trumpeter Swan
Tsetse Fly
Tucuxi
Turkey (Domestic)
Urial
Vampire Bat
Verreaux's Sifaka
Vervet
Victoria's Riflebird
Vicuna
Walrus
Wapiti
Warthog
Water Boatman Bug
Waterbuck
Water Buffalo
Water Moccasin
Water Strider spp.
Wattled Starling
Weeper Capuchin
Western Gray Kangaroo
Western Gull
Western Rattlesnake
West Indian Manatee
Western Banded Gecko
Whiptail Lizard spp.
Whiptail Wallaby
White-faced Capuchin
White-fronted Amazon Parrot
White-fronted Capuchin
White-handed Gibbon
White-lipped Peccary
White Stork
White-tailed Deer
Wild Cavy
Wild Goat
Wisent
Wolf
Wood Duck
Wood Turtle
Yellow-backed (Chattering) Lorikeet
Yello-footed Rock Wallaby
Yellow-rumped Cacique
Yellow-toothed Cavy
Zebra Finch (Domestic

Answer 2

I think you have to approach it from three perspectives; college education and its availability and affordability, retirement and what the future holds for them and how bad it could be as opposed to now and the way it is for their parents living on fixed incomes or about to live on fixed incomes, thirdly-the environment. While these things are not directly related all three hold huge social and financial impact for the younger adults of this country that will affect them for many years to come after they are well past their mid 30s and 40s an into their retirment years even. By becoming involved and helping and taking a hand now with the decisions and policies that will be made they are helping to set the course for THEIR future.

Answer 3

That's not intelligent design. Until I see two male poodles locked up together on the corner, your theory holds no water. Not unless you are speaking of some unisex animals that don't need a mate to reproduce. Some worms, for instance.

Answer 4

Homosexuality...
Bisexuality...
Heterosexuality...

All of the above are 'LIFESTYLES''; they are not inherent within an individual,... THEY ARE CHOSEN.
Currently, no direct genetic links have been isolated and genetic predispositions are, at best, arguable.

The instinctive 'survival' drive of homo sapiens inclines most humans toward heterosexuality, as this 'lifestyle' naturally insures the survival of the species.
As with many animal species, the instincts to "mate and procreate" are not as pronounced in some individuals as they are in others, hence the occasional aberrant (read as "non-procreative") behavior of that small percentage who 'choose' a homosexual or bisexual path for other reasons; most likely for opportunistic sexual gratification.

Answer 5

Genetics, presumably.
A study has shown that the nitrogen base sequence vary's vastly amongst homosexuals in a partular gene on the X chromosome.

Another relative point -if the behavior of a mass system in a chaos model on the point of homomsexuality (read: chaos describing gay ecosystems) reads that there will be a 76% chance until you hit system failure point (unlikley to happen)
then why is it abnormal?

Answer 6

You'll find your sincere and real answer, if you Q is sincere and real, here:

The snake in my garden??


Answered by Dad:


I'm glad you brought this topic up, because I have discovered a book recently published via Xulon Press.com called TWO BIRDS ... ONE STONE!! [by Denis Towers], which actually proves following a 9 year research into the fact that the typical snake is the precise antithesis of man both - anatomically and behaviorally.
It has proven a highly intriguing, most fascinating and highly revelatory study.
Of course, this finding not only tends to disprove 'evolution', by clearly indicating that some conscious deliberate decision-making was involved in Creation, but it also Powerfully supports the Biblical Adam and Eve account, wherein it was the serpent who set man in opposition to God.
For its 'fruits of labor', God cursed the snake 'above all the beasts of the field' ... and made significant changes to it, as recorded in scripture.
What this study shows is that the changes made were such as to represent the complete opposition to man and God [in whose image we were created] beset upon by the snake - through whom Satan spoke to Adam and Eve.

So that the most unbelievable account in the entire holy record has become the very one that we have most scientifically proven!!!!!

It is, indeed, a most encompassing and faith-promoting study.
I have known people so inspired by the work as to read it twice in the first week they had it.

Answer 7

If you don't accept my interpretation of God's book, why should I accept your interpretation of M&Ms book? And some how it think liberties were taken with the word homosexuality. For example many animals feign the act as
synmbolic of dominance and submission. These are not to be counted as homosexual acts. And furthermore this question is nothing more than athiestic proselytizing.

Answer 8

Why is this an ID question? Natural selection?

Last I checked, the Bible wasn't written to animals (which have no moral compass), so why would anyone equate moral sexual decisions with animal activities?

Wanna' try another line of attack?

Answer 9

And its worse than that too. Man dogs hump peoples legs. Rabbits hump my elbows. I even saw a cat tryin to hump a dog.

But i didn't know that animals engaged in homosexuality...but i guess it don't matter much does it? Guess it can't hurt nothin.

Answer 10

First off, I doubt the source. Please indicate how scientifically this was determined.

EDITED: If it was done by scientists then they would have research papers available. Anybody can make unvalidated claim in a magazine.

Secondly are you saying that we should behave as animals. Some animals eat their young - does that mean that cannibalism natural and acceptable? You have a warped sense of logic.

Answer 11

This premise is faulty on at least two accounts:
1. This presumes that an intelligent design must preclude the possibility of free will on the part of the created being.
2. It also presumes that the current design is concordant with the original design. The scripture is clear that it is not! All the world fell with Adam and "groans waiting for the revelation of the sons of God."