[Snowbelt Man]

if evolution is true and homosexuality is genetic - why are there still homosexuals? wouldn't this non reproductive gene have been eliminated from the gene pool at some point? when it comes to science, i'm one of those ignoramuses who believes that God created man in His own image and homosexuality is a choice that people make.

[JeffAtlanta]

if evolution is true and homosexuality is genetic - why are there still homosexuals? wouldn't this non reproductive gene have been eliminated from the gene pool at some point?

Not if the gene is recessive.

[highball]

if evolution is true and homosexuality is genetic - why are there still homosexuals? wouldn't this non reproductive gene have been eliminated from the gene pool at some point? when it comes to science, i'm one of those ignoramuses who believes that God created man in His own image and homosexuality is a choice that people make.

Presuming for a moment that homosexuality is in fact genetically determined (a hypothesis far from demonstrated), I'd have two responses:

1. Genetic homosexuality might be a recessive trait, passed along by a parent in whom the trait did not actually express itself.
2. Do you think that there are no homosexuals in this world who choose to marry and have children?

[Thatcherite]

if evolution is true and homosexuality is genetic - why are there still homosexuals? wouldn't this non reproductive gene have been eliminated from the gene pool at some point? when it comes to science, i'm one of those ignoramuses who believes that God created man in His own image and homosexuality is a choice that people make.

Assorted answers that would occur to anyone who thought open-mindedly about the problem posed for a few minutes:

Just because a particular trait makes offspring less likely it doesn't follow that it cannot persist in the population. Homosexuals still have the physical equipment to be the biological parents of children.

Homosexuality may be expressed by several genes, and may form a continuum rather than being a straight on/off switch.

Perhaps the assumptions of the question are wrong and homosexuality is not genetic at all.

Perhaps the principal genes for homosexuality are recessive. Plenty of traits survive in the population for that reason.

Latent genetic homosexuality might be triggered into actual homosexual behaviour by certain environmental events during one's lifetime, and people who didn't experience such events would grow up straight despite having one or more of the homosexuality genes.

What I find more curious, is why are so many creationists obsessed with homosexuality, to the point that again and again it is dragged into crevo debates for no discernable reason?

[Dimensio]

if evolution is true and homosexuality is genetic - why are there still homosexuals?

So you believe that homosexuality is genetic? Or are you erroneously assuming that everyone who accepts that the theory of evolution is valid science also believes that homosexuality is genetic? Regardless your question demonstrates that you are fundamentally ignorant of both the concept of recessive genes and phenotypes (and that's just on the most elementary level).

when it comes to science, i'm one of those ignoramuses

You certainly got that right.

who believes that God created man in His own image and homosexuality is a choice that people make.

Why in the hell did you think that homosexuality was somehow relevant to this discussion?