Re: Fly Gene

  Yeh, sorry. I wasn't careful in my phrasing. But you got the point.
Let's see what flows from this discovery. It's just an alert.
I broke the link by forwarding it. Sorry. Here it is intact (I hope).

Fly study points to master gene directing its sexual behavior
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0603sex-gene03.html>

JimA

George L. Murphygmurphy@raex.com wrote:

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>>In case you missed it, here's a potentially explosive headline, from
>>yesterday's Arizona Republic:
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>>Fly study points to master gene directing its sexual behavior
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>>It looks to me that this has the makings of real conflict for those
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>>particularly when based on some pretty explicit scripture references.
>>There is some strong inference, some correlation evidence, and some
>>pretty decent (coherent) working hypotheses that up 'til now just
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>>a tentative framework that anticipated this discovery. But this
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>>very likely to be the missing genetic piece of the puzzle - and
>>unexpectedly focused on a single gene (at least in this case).
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>There are of course scriptural references that condemn homosexual
>behavior but absolutely none that say anything about whether or not
>homosexual preference is elective.
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>Your link didn't work so I can't comment on the study. I will say that
>it would be relevant to the issue of human sexual orientation only if
>it's shown that there are homosexual flys in the same sense that we say
>that there are homosexual human beings - i.e., those with an
>orientation toward same-sex relations.
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>George L. Murphy
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Received on Sat Jun 4 16:21:12 2005