(March 5, 2012 at 2:00 am)arjun Wrote: i am an atheist .i am the first of my Hindu family who left Hinduism for sake of truth.i was confident that science has the ultimate power to explicate everything but life is so complex to comprehend.still there are certain things which incapacitate science to explain it.
for example if you ponder over the sacredness of kin relations one could gather that it is engraved upon our minds by someone.
the other day my atheist friend argued with me over yahoo that its not divine rather evolution thought us so.
on a point we reached to the subject of incest .he said,"men are wired for sex.they want it constantly and with multiple partners.evolution has produced this.it is natural"
in reply to that i asked him why evolution did not produce willingness for incest.
he replied," we are not wired for incest because breeding with people too genetically close to you increases the chances of recessive genes manifesting and producing a child with a genetic disease "
i asked him," it means one can approach his mother or sister with the condoms ?"
he went offline.
so such things make me sure that things are not so plain and superficial as we take .
" Heard Melodies Are Sweet But Those Unheard Are Sweeter "
Actually, there is a pretty simple explanation for a person's aversion to incest - the Westermarck effect.
