Posted on 07/22/2009 7:28:01 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
Among scientists at the university of New Mexico that spring, rape was in the air. One of the professors, biologist Randy Thornhill, had just coauthored A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, which argued that rape is (in the vernacular of evolutionary biology) an adaptation, a trait encoded by genes that confers an advantage on anyone who possesses them. Back in the late Pleistocene epoch 100,000 years ago, the 2000 book contended, men who carried rape genes had a reproductive and evolutionary edge over men who did not: they sired children not only with willing mates, but also with unwilling ones, allowing them to leave more offspring (also carrying rape genes) who were similarly more likely to survive and reproduce, unto the nth generation. That would be us. And that is why we carry rape genes today.
Over the years these arguments have attracted legions of critics who thought the science was weak and the message (what philosopher David Buller of Northern Illinois University called "a get-out-of-jail-free card" for heinous behavior) pernicious. Biologist Joan Roughgarden of Stanford University called it "the latest 'evolution made me do it' excuse for criminal behavior from evolutionary psychologists."
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Darwin made me do it ping.
I have the golf gene. Can the author explain what the cavemen used for golf clubs and golf balls?
We could lump the whole list under Original Sin, but that would eliminate all these federally-funded studies and put those who know a whole lot about nothing out of jobs.
Thank God you don’t teach science, except, perhaps, to members of your own family.
UNM has Scientists? Getting touchy-feeley with their rape genes? Next thing you know, it wont be rape, it will be assault with a friendly weapon.
Exactly. What part of Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery doesn't America understand. Answer: Most of it.
Question: Puting Rapists in prison does what?
Answer, it allows rapists to compare their conquests and plan for the next ones. DOH!
should be an interesting topic.
The poster, although a case could be made for the original author as well.
As an exercise, run through all of the horizontal commandments and tell me which is/are supported by leftist policy and ideology.
This little exercise is quick and easy, and quickly shows who the left is working for.
***Darwin made me do it ping***
Don’t you love it when evos pi!! off fems and libs8^)
And this passes for science right along with AGW.
It wasn’t the subject of my original post, but cases can be strong, you know...
This is what passes for a "quality poster" on FR now..
It’s all because of people like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove!
Aren’t they behind ALL the evils in this world???
Well, the golf club arose from having to hit the cavewoman over the head in order to rape her of course.
The golf balls came about after the cave woman woke up and emasculated the cave man.
You see, after she was done he didn't have anything better to do than try to hit the balls with the club.
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So much for the contention that the ToE does not promote immorality.
Only if their chromosomes have the sinister "behind all the evils in the world" gene. The only gene worse than that is the dreaded "condemned to believe in Darwinism" gene.
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