(June 8, 2011 at 7:25 pm)Rayaan Wrote:(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.
Once again you are just making claims without backing things up. As far as I know, behavior does not change brain structure. This doesn't mean you're wrong, you just need to show something to back that up.
This could all be futile as all you have to do to prove sexuality is a choice is to be homosexual for a month.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell