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Still stuck on the gay gene? Even after I've said and scientists said they havent found one yet? Lol. Let's break this down to a five year old level

Let's say instead of gay, we'll call them purple. You keep saying a purple gene doesn't exist. Scientists havent found it either, what they HAVE found, as I have shown you previously, are parts of genes that are blue, and parts of genes that are red, they've found some hormones that are very dark purple, almost black, they've found some hormones that are very light purple, almost white. MULTIPLE GENETIC FACTORS DOES NOT MEAN ONE SPECIFIC GAY GENE.

Make sense yet?

SCIENTIFIC FACT: Science has found genetic and hormonal factors that increase the likelihood of someone being gay. Homosexuality is NOT ALWAYS a choice. End of discussion

Anyone else need something broken down to a 5 year old level? Lol.
Wrong. Science has not proven that homosexuality is genetic derived in any manner repeatedly, and has not been accepted as true by the published scientific community, therefore, it cannot be a scientific fact. It is a theory, which is not a scientific fact. Look it up.

The American Psychological Association's assertion is "most scientists today agree that sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors." Note that they did not say genetics.

Dr. Joel Gelernter of Yale University ( Joel Gelernter, MD > Psychiatry | Yale School of Medicine ): "Time and time again, scientists have claimed that particular genes or chromosomal regions are associated with behavioral traits, only to withdraw their findings when they were not replicated. Unfortunately, it's hard to come up with many findings linking specific genes to complex human behaviors that have been replicated. ... All were announced with great fanfare; all were greeted unskeptically in the popular press; all are now in disrepute."

“On July 16, 1993, it was reported in Science (pp. 291, 321) that geneticist Dean Hamer and his team at the National Cancer Institute had reported on a study involving 40 pairs of brothers both of whom were gay that had led them to conclude that they had discovered a factor on the X chromosome through which gayness was genetically transmitted to them from their mothers. This was hailed as proof that homosexuality in men is biological in origin. Two years later, however, Eliot Marshall reported in Science (June 30, 1995, p.268) George Ebers and George Rice of the University of Western Ontario had unsuccessfully attempted to replicate Hamer's findings and had "found no evidence that gayness is passed from mother to son" genetically. He also reported that the Office of Research Integrity in the Department of Health and Human Services was investigating Hamer's work." - Martin A. Silverman, M.D.

And before you brush off my comments concerning homosexuality, genetics, and evolution, my comments were based on other's published work:
Professor Miron Baron, M.D. ( Columbia Psychiatry ), medical researcher and Professor at Columbia University, wrote in 1993 in the British Medical Journal that there is a conflict relative to the theory of evolution and the notion of genetic determinism concerning homosexuality. "...from an evolutionary perspective, genetically determined homosexuality would have become extinct long ago because of reduced reproduction."


Now, go back to class and go learn something - 'cause you didn't get anything from it last time obviously.