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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mucus: [QB] [QUOTE] 1. The current thinking amongst a lot of geneticists who believe sexual preference has a genetic basis is that it is influenced by a lot of different genes (and possibly by some neo-natal and perhaps things as well)...as it's not something as sinple as an on/off switch. [/QUOTE]Right, as in there is no simple off switch for say blindness or deafness. A problem in any number of related genes can cause a change in function. Being influenced by a large number of genes (and as you said various environmental factors), there can be many degrees of blindness or deafness. [QUOTE] 3. "Cure" makes it sound like an illness or a defect. In a world with over 6 billion people, maybe it's a benefit. Who really wants everyone out there to be breeders? [/QUOTE]Sure, maybe :) Sickle-cell anemia confers certain advantages when dealing with malaria, and thus is more prevelant in African populations than say...well Canadian ones. But in the end, its society (or our individual beliefs) that determines whether sickle-cell anemia or deafness or blindness should be cured. I'm just saying that from a technological point of view (morality notwithstanding), there's not much of a difference. [QUOTE]Mutations don't get "bred out." They occur over and over and over again. That's why two totally unrelated people can have the same mutation. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Exactly, which is how evolution works...mutations occur and occasionally provide some advantage and the mutation becomes the norm. Albeit most mutations are not benficial. [/QUOTE]Right, obviously. But it seems to me on a cursory glance that homosexuality would not be beneficial, and that natural selection would keep it at a background level. However, it seems that the gay population is much larger than could be explained through spontaeous mutation. (and someone can provide statistics either way *hint, hint*) Thus there probably is an environmental factor (possibly the neo-natal factors you mentioned) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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