[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Researcher Dean Hamer, for example, attempted to link male homosexuality to a stretch of DNA located at the tip of the X chromosome, the chromosome that some men inherit from their mothers. Referring to that research, Hamer offered some conclusions regarding genetics and homosexuality.

"We knew that genes were only part of the answer. We assumed the environment also played a role in sexual orientation, as it does in most, if not all behaviors...

Homosexuality is not purely genetic...environmental factors play a role. There is not a single master gene that makes people gay....I don't think we will ever be able o predict who will be gay."

Citing the failure of his research, Hamer further writes,

"The pedigree failed to produce what we originally hoped to find: simple Mendelian inheritance..."

Dean Byrd, Ph.D:

"..the scientific attempts to demonstrate that homosexual attraction is biologically determined have failed...."

Complex behavioral patterns apparently cannot be reduced down to genetic factors alone. In my opinion, it is time that politics was seperated from scientific inquiry.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

To see the quotes by Dr. Dean Hamer, and Dr. Byrd go to:

http://www.narth.com/docs/innate.html

[Jeff Blogworthy]

It could be that faith is a perfectly rational position based on observable evidence and many proofs. The heavens declare His handiwork.

[struggle]

Hey, wives parents are Buddhist statue carvers that dont even believe in Buddhism. Yet after reading the Chapter of John, she was convinced and converted...

Can I get an AMEN????

[BenLurkin]

Is this from The Onion?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Traits such as eye color, and height, can be directly inherited through our "genes". Other human behaviors are simply too complex to attribute to genes alone.

http://www.narth.com/docs/istheregene.html

[GovernmentShrinker]

Big difference between biologically determined and genetically determined. Quite a range of physical and mental characteristics are strongly affected by in utero conditions -- which are determined by such things as the woman's hormone levels, substance abuse, nutritional factors, and stress. The lack of a "gay gene" does not mean that homosexuality isn't biologically determined (though my personal view is that in some cases it is, and in others it's not).

Physical brain development in particular is known to be affected by in utero factors. Testosterone levels can vary the "masculine" or "feminine" characteristics of the brain, alcohol can produce fetal alcohol syndrome, etc.