But evolution really does make homosexuality less likely to occur. If given a set of biological statements like “some animals are homosexual” together with the theory of evolution, you will be able to get many more true/false labelings correct than if you did not have the theory of evolution. Sure, you’ll get that one wrong, but you’ll still get a lot more right than you otherwise would. (I read part of a book, in fact, whose title I can’t remember although I just tried awhile to look it up, about evolution, from a professor who teaches evolution, and the thesis was that armed only with the theory of evolution, you can correctly answer a large number of biological questions without knowing anything about the species involved.)
With complex theories and complex truths, you get statistical predictive value, rather than perfection. That doesn’t mean that testing your theories on real data (the basic idea behind this post) is a bad thing! It just means you need a larger data set.
But evolution really does make homosexuality less likely to occur. If given a set of biological statements like “some animals are homosexual” together with the theory of evolution, you will be able to get many more true/false labelings correct than if you did not have the theory of evolution. Sure, you’ll get that one wrong, but you’ll still get a lot more right than you otherwise would. (I read part of a book, in fact, whose title I can’t remember although I just tried awhile to look it up, about evolution, from a professor who teaches evolution, and the thesis was that armed only with the theory of evolution, you can correctly answer a large number of biological questions without knowing anything about the species involved.)
With complex theories and complex truths, you get statistical predictive value, rather than perfection. That doesn’t mean that testing your theories on real data (the basic idea behind this post) is a bad thing! It just means you need a larger data set.