I recently wrote a 4 part series on famous frauds inevolution, so I thought a good follow up would be to chronicle a few fraudulent
studies that seek to validate homosexuality as being natural.
While scientists have been cheating on their science fair
projects to prove Darwinism for more than a century and half, this is a fairly
new concept when it comes to homosexuality; therefore, this will only be a
two-part series.
In 1991, a neuroscientist (Salk Institute of La Jolla,
California) named Simon LeVay conducted an experiment on the brains of 41
deceased people. 19 of these were identified as homosexual men, 16 were
heterosexual men, and 6 were heterosexual women.
The study was to examine a group of neurons in the
hypothalamus structure (INAH3), and he found that this region was larger in the
heterosexuals he examined. His conclusion, then, was that homosexuality is
inborn, meaning people are either born as gay or straight.
This study was published in Science magazine, and became instantly popular. Even today, more
than two decades later, it is cited as “the proof” that people are born gay. If
people are born gay, they say, then God must have made them that way, and it
must not be wrong.
But one glaring problem in this study is that there is no
overwhelming evidence. For example, the conclusion leads the reader to believe
that all heterosexuals had larger
INAH3 regions than their homosexual counterparts, but that is not true. Three
of the heterosexuals had smaller
regions than the homosexuals, and likewise three of the homosexuals had larger regions than the heterosexuals.
This means that 17% of LeVay’s study contradicts his conclusion, and when one
considers that he only looked at 41 brains, 17% is a pretty large number.
Furthermore, as is the case with most neuroscience, one
cannot know if brain change is the cause
of behavior or is caused by
behavior. To look at a cadaver’s brain and conclude that a small region must
have made him gay is a jump in science; we don’t know if he was gay because he
was born with a small INAH3, or if his INAH3 shrunk because he was gay. (in the
same way, we don’t know if depression is caused by chemical change, or
if chemical change causes depression)
What we do know is that lifestyle habits affect the neurons
in the brain, so it is entirely possible that the majority of his homosexual
cadavers’ brains shrunk due to living as gay men, and were not like that from
birth.
Also of interest is the fact that scientists do not even
agree on how to measure the INAH3. It is a very small region, and there is
debate as to whether to measure it by size or by number of neurons. For this
reason, many scientists rejected LeVay’s work, and his study has yet to be replicated
and bare similar results.
But beyond the science, the most overwhelming piece of
evidence against LeVay is the fact that he did
not know if the brains belonged to gay or straight people. All he could go
by were their case studies, and 19 of them were admittedly gay. If their
studies did not mention their being homosexual, then he labeled them as
heterosexual, which means he is accepting a lot of guesswork. In fact, 6 of the
16 “heterosexual male” brains came from people who died of AIDS, which, in 1991,
shows a greater increase of homosexual activity among them.
For this research to be cited as proof that God creates
people as homosexuals from birth is quite a stretch. If you find yourself in a
conversation where someone says that God made them (or anyone else) gay, ask
them to prove it. If this is the study they refer to, politely show them the
poor scientific work that went into producing these results.
Don’t accept fraudulent science; no one has proven that God creates people gay from birth.
(Read Part 2 here)
(Read Part 2 here)
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