Quantum Windbag
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Would be very interesting to see the reaction if a Gay gene is actually found someday.
Yes, it would. I figure it is almost as likely as finding out the Earth is really flat.
Simple statement of fact, if sexual preference is genetic mono zygotic twins would always have the same preference because they have the same genes.
Identical Twin Studies Prove Homosexuality is Not Genetic | OrthodoxNet.com BlogEight major studies of identical twins in Australia, the U.S., and Scandinavia during the last two decades all arrive at the same conclusion: gays were not born that way. “At best genetics is a minor factor,” says Dr. Neil Whitehead, PhD. Whitehead worked for the New Zealand government as a scientific researcher for 24 years, then spent four years working for the United Nations and International Atomic Energy Agency. Most recently, he serves as a consultant to Japanese universities about the effects of radiation exposure. His PhD is in biochemistry and statistics.
Identical twins have the same genes or DNA. They are nurtured in equal prenatal conditions. If homosexuality is caused by genetics or prenatal conditions and one twin is gay, the co-twin should also be gay.
“Because they have identical DNA, it ought to be 100%,” Dr. Whitehead notes. But the studies reveal something else. “If an identical twin has same-sex attraction the chances the co-twin has it are only about 11% for men and 14% for women.”
Because identical twins are always genetically identical, homosexuality cannot be genetically dictated. “No-one is born gay,” he notes. “The predominant things that create homosexuality in one identical twin and not in the other have to be post-birth factors.”
In other words, I ain't going to hold my breath. Feel free to continue to live in a land where wishful thinking trumps science, you will fit right in with the people who insist that the planet is not getting warmer, the drooling idiots that insist that vaccines cause autism, the assholes that think GMOs are dangerous, and the brain dead nincompoops that believe that the Earth is only 6000 years old. At least you will be able to converse with people that match you intellectually.
Now that WAS debunked, dipstick!
Steve Sailer: iSteve: Twin studies debunked: Twins are "Similar but not identical"
According to your link, environment has a larger impact on academic performance than genes. I could be wrong, but doesn't that tend to back my assertion that people are not "born that way?"
Tell me something, oh he of incredible lack of ability to read, why would anyone think that a study that proves free will in the choices they make, which is the only real factor in how they perform academically when everything else is the same, somehow debunks decades of different studies that prove that sexual preference is not genetic? Did you not read far enough to see what study was "debunked?"
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