Bill Nye Explains Whether Homosexuality Makes Evolutionary Sense

Well there are better arguments. Gays often contribute to viability of their family's gene pool, by helping to raise their nieces and nephews. I was the primary babysitter for my nieces and nephews, a common role for a gay uncle. And it's a fact that the more older brothers a man has, the more likely he is to be gay. Which suggests it's nature's way to control overpopulation.

I never actually knew who Bill Nye is until now.

Whoever asked that question is an asshole, asking if being gay is a choice.

There have been studies which suggest that there is a higher likelihood statistically that male children born later in birth order after other males are more likely to be gay.

There is some evolutionary logic for having fewer males competing to reproduce. If the best males reproduce as frequently as possible and males are responsible for gender, you wouldn't want them to keep producing other males.

Have those been disproven?

Hmm...where does Henry Cavill fall in the family tree? And isn't Colton Haynes the youngest? But his older brother is also gay.

Actually, it does make evolutionary sense, if you remember the fruit fly in the jar experiment.

It doesn't matter if you're gay, straight or shaped like an S (thanx Phil Donahue). What truly matters is that there is far too much humanity on the planet who are destroying the only home we have. So whether you fuck men, women, a combo thereof or aardvarks, PLEASE consider the increasingly dire consequences of producing yet more humans.

It just doesn't make sense that you are born gay. Anyone who says it does is pandering.

You bumped a four year thread on a gay messageboard to show everyone you're a homophobe?

R9 Bill Nye's response was word salad. There is no proof that homosexuality is caused by genetics. Why is pointing that out homophobic?

How is in not genetic if millions of people are born gay? Even if you were to cruelly call it a "defect." it's still genetic.

He isn't a science anything. His degree is in engineering.

sexual segregation is actually far more common than homosexual encounters in most animals and most males do not reproduce because of competition and female choice. therefore the idea that animals have sex to reproduce is bullshit. as animals become more intelligent the function of breeding and sexual/social preference become more distinguishable and separate. besides, evolution is not the one who has to be wounded or killed in order to keep the species going nor it experiences none of of cruel and stressing conditions that those poor creatures have to endured on a daily basis in order to not become somebody's next meal.

When did Bill Nye become America's go-to science advisor? Isn't he an engineer?

It's like asking Dr. Phil about a medical problem.

How did I turn out gay but my older and younger brothers aren't?

It's the human condition. As long as there are at least two human beings with cocks then there will be a chance that gay sex will occur. As long as there is at least one male ( fuck off ftms ) then there is a chance that the male will be a gay one. Lineage is irrelevant.

According to Kinsey there are only a small number of totally straight Kinsey zeros, just like with gays there are only a few percent of Kinsey sixes, i.e. totally gay people. The current straight hegemony is a social construct which, if Kinsey was correct about the sexual orientation scale, is why it's impossible to know how many truly straight people there are. Male masculinity still abhors homosexuality today but in a world where it would be totally normal to have gay sex or relationships homosexuality would be seen just as masculine as heterosexuality.

I'm not a history buff so no idea how far-spread bisexuality truly was in ancient Greece but I've understood it was perfectly normal for older guys to have sex with young men. Then again I remember hearing this happened mostly among the upper class.

If almost all men are bisexual, just like women are pretty much thought to be, evolution has little to do with sexuality.

R10, Nothing in his statement was "word salad". Fuck off homophobe.