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Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer is found in Italy
June 11, 2008 By MARTA FALCONI , Associated Press Writer
This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer - nicknamed 'Unicorn' - was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences, said. He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns. (AP Photo/Center of Natural Sciences)
(AP) -- A deer with a single horn in the center of its head - much like the fabled, mythical unicorn - has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.
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Next time an Atheist uses the "sure, but unicorns might exist" argument, I'm going to mention this. They DO exist! Lol...
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For all we know, there might have been such an animal once, we just haven't found the fossils yet.
"Well I'm atheist (yeah, this is a default setting for a human)"
Don't you think that's a little arrogant? The percentage of atheists in the human population is fairly small. This suggests that belief in some kind of deity(ies) is actually the "default setting."
Mecury_01, you bet 1,000,000 what? Grains of sand? :)
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LOL Well that's what they say about a worldwide flood that almost every religion known has had some variation of a story about. What about dragons? Must of been those crazy japanese smoking their opium.