(June 8, 2011 at 3:58 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Please reference this as to my knowledge there has been no link between homosexuality and environment whatsoever.
By "environment," I meant the influence of things on a person such as cultural acceptance, family dynamics, and the media as well.
The 'materialism' of science has already, in reality, done away with this idea of "gene identification" and articles that attempt to explain behavior in terms of genes are basically for pushing agendas. It is now well-acknowledged that genetic expression can be modified by the environment, meaning 'pre-disposition' is not really pre-disposition because your behavior can 'alter' your genes. Even certain strands of evolutionary theory argue that diet affects people differently, depending upon where they were brought up. For example, depression can affect the biological, and the biological can affect the psyche. Neuroplasticity had shown the neural networks can change depending upon assertion of will.
The media often presents 'biological' differences in brain sizes as evidence of a cause of such things as homosexuality, yet it is now well-known that the opposite is also true, which is that behavior can also modify the brain size. Very rarely is it mentioned in the same context that certain criminals have different 'brain sizes'. That's why the main problem in such approaches is that, besides not being across the board, these 'differences' are measured after the fact, not before.
