gambit4185

Natural selection favors those best suited to there environment. Those of a species considered inferior to the rest of the race do not survive to reproduce. However, homosexuals do not reproduce to pass on there genetics. Can homosexuality be considered another method natural selection weeds out those inferior to the rest of the human race? Why or why not?

NialScorva

Welcome to the forum!

You come closes to anthropomorphizing natural selection in your last question... natural selection doesn't seek to weed out the inferior, natural selection is the observation that a population's genetics will be dominated by ancestors who were more successful at breeding. There are theories about homosexuality being a "kind uncle" advantage, to increase the rate of success for children of family members at the expense of individual reproduction. I'm not entirely sure.

You probably want to be careful about using phrasing such as "inferior to the rest of the human race". It's tremendously inflamatory because of the huge potential for equivocation between "less likely to directly pass on genes" and "less worthy of human dignity and rights". Purposefully being inflamatory for the sake of being inflamatory is against the rules here, but I don't think it'll be an issue for you, since you asked the question in good faith, right?


I'm going to move your post over to the Evolution/Creation forum for a response, the people there are amazingly well versed and patient with those that bring an honest question and are interested in learning.