We should all take this opportunity to stop the abuse of millions upon millions
of conscious animals in the name of science, education, food, clothing and entertainment.
Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it
contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»
The slaughterman then used a short knife to saw at
the conscious animal's throat.
It's just about dusk, and all of a sudden the wind shifts and there's a whooshing sound of the sort a tiger might make when moving through the grass, and
the conscious animal runs like hell but the other one doesn't.
Intracardiac injection or heartstick, for example, typically involves sticking a needle into
a conscious animal's heart.
In
a conscious animal the swallowing reflex will cause the larynx to close when a solid object touches it.