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Homosexuality meets Evolution

Homosexuality clearly exists, there is no question of that; it exists just as the toes on my feet exist. The question I have, then, is this: was homosexuality around just as long as heterosexuality? And if so, do you think the termonology could be summed up to one simple term of SEXUALITY?


  • this might be slightly irrelevant...

    a lot of the time when people say that homosexuality can't being genetic because it would have died down and not existed because homosexuals usually don't reproduce, they don't have any knowledge of genetics at all. on a basic level there are 2 types of genes. dominant and recesive genes. in order for a dominant trait to be active it only needs to be inherited from one parent, but for a recesive gene to be active then it has to be inhereted from both parents. so because of this, dominant traits are usually a lot more common then recesive traits so if homosexuality is genetic than most likely heterosexuality would be dominant while homosexuality would be recesive.

    now, if someone had a combo of Sg (S being straight and g being gay) then that person would be straight because the dominant gene overpowers the recesive gene. so this person carries the gene for homosexuality but is not affected by it. so let's say that two people who each have an Sg combination have a child, there is a possibility that each parent will give the child the recesive gay gene resulting in the child having a "gg" combination and the child would be gay. so that is how homosexuality can be passed down throughout the generations without gay people needing to reproduce.

    so you can't base your argument that homosexuality isn't genetic based on the belief that it would "eventually die out". there is no proof that homosexuality is genetic (and there is no proof that homosexuality is not genetic), but it could be genetic and this is how it would basically work.

    ps-there are more advanced things such as hybrid genes and a bunch of other stuff but this is just the very basic form of it.

    50%  Voted for by iamlost, cosmosis, Felicitas, Spade-Dragon.
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  • Do as the animals do.

    I think it is highly possible that it is a part of evolution. I think it is a part of population control. Like natures way of it. Just as floods hurricanes tornados unexplained viruses are.

    I mean, look at animals. There are a lot of animals who once so many are born or hatched, as it is most common in birds, take on same sex companions to avoid more reproduction. Look at dogs. Ever had a gay dog? I have. It wouldn't touch a female dog with a ten foot pole, but put a boy infront of him and he was on it like white on rice.

    Though people do make the implication that the Bible speaks against homosexuality, this means it had to of been around then. Beause there was obviously a prejudice to it, because throughout the years people continue to believe that is what it says despite the fact it actually says "mankind" which would imply more than one partner rather than a male on male partner. (I would think if they meant homosexuality of any manner they would have also mentioned woman on woman as it would be just as likely to happen.) But I am kind of getting off the topic here, but not contradicting myself.

    I think homosexuality was always there to some degree, just hidden better. But I do believe it has began to come out more as a part of evolution, and survival of the fittest so to speak.

    Voted for by verses on flesh.
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  • sexual cavemen

    i honestly think that somewhere in the timeline of the species Man descended from, there was no such thing as hetero & homo sexuality. I think that from the beginning of sexual encounters, every organism capable could just as easily love (if there even was love back then) and be intimate with males and females. They probably saw sexuality in terms of their species, not gender. I'm guessing tho that because homosexuality had little to no use to what was probably the purpose of life -- to reproduce -- that, if homosexuality is indeed genetic, it died down low, or was unconsciously suppressed. What are your thoughts??

    Voted for by DayDreamer.
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  • diversity

    its an interesting question and i suppose that everytime someone must add that bit about homosexuality. but i believe that homosexuality and heterosexuality have always been around. its just an alternative lifestyle. its not like homosexuality just spawned out of a rotten egg and became this massive pandemic disease. there's always been diversity in a community of animals. all different types of all different natures. i dont see why one sexuality would be older than the other. thats like saying good haircuts were around before bad haircuts. there have always been a mix of both.

    Voted for by Neros Decay.
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  • Homosexuality - Evolution In Progress

    Ever wondered about what evolution has up it's sleeve? Everything basically started out of a single celled bacteria, and look at how many forms and shapes of life have come out of it. Does anyone here think that humans will be the same as they are now, a few million years later? My guess is, THEY WON'T!

    This is where the homosexuals come in. We all know that when straight sex leads to conception, there is basically little or no choice at all as to what could possibly go wrong with a prospective human. Well, not in the gay world. Imagine if the gay and lesbian population slowly started to increase, and after all these millions of years, they are the majority...leaving straight people in a minority. Humans would have to invent new ways to reproduce, right?

    Of course! By that time, advanced scientific technology will be able to offer alot of things. When the gay father donates his sperm to a lab and a lesbian mother donates her eggs to a lab, this is the start of a whole new breed. Humans will be able to accurately manipulate the composure of the prospective human, making the new person come out as exponentially more advantaged then the typical kid that comes out nowadays from the luck & chance process of antique reproduction.

    Homosexuality could be a way of evolution to advance the human race by decreasing the attraction between opposite genders, thus enabling a more efficient reproduction and a more advantaged offspring. Isn't that what always happens? Some dysfunctional spieces always gets extinct and a better version of it emerges...

    Ultimately, we will probably have a more advanced spieces ourselves, a spieces that with it's higher abilities will probably drive us humans to extinction as a whole. Of course, all this will be courtesy of the homosexuals, but look at a bright side...a better version of mankind will come in play. And of course, they will also be the victims of evolution, just like everything in this world.

    Majorities become minorities, power shifts back and forth, everything changes! And everything is there for a reason. Nothing has been created for no purpose, and homosexuality will play a significant role one time or another in the evolutionary tree. That is probably why present day heterosexual humans are so opposed to it, because in their subconsciousness, nature has made her plans known to them. Homosexuals will take over, they will pre-design a new spieces, and humans will be...well, they're just gonna be old news at the end, straights and gays combined.

    Can you say, check mate?

    Voted for by PhilosophyAtBest.
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