Well, I wish you hadn’t told me that you have a doctorate. Because I actually respected you before that, even if I did disagree with you. But now you’ve lost my respect completely.
It does mean that I have completed extensive study into my field of biology. I never asked you to respect me but I asked you to listen to the knowledge I believe I can deliver on this particular subject.
I have a degree in math and computer science. And I work as a Computer Engineer. Nothing to brag about, I know. But my supervisor has a doctorate in computer science. And I have to almost daily correct her in basic programming algorithms. She has great oratorical prowess, much like you; and she writes wonderfully complex papers (I’ve read them) and uses long sentences and big words, much like you.
But much like you, she is full of herself and has to be corrected by “peons” like me all the time. Doctors of Philosophy generally teach because they cannot do.
I am not a teacher, I actually work for a living. If you really believe that everyone gets advanced degrees for the same reasons and we all sit up in ivory towers, you are a fucking idiot. I don't know how computer science works but AFAIK, getting a doctorate there does not mean you have programming skills above or beyond a 14 year old hacker but I will tell you an advanced degree in one of the hard sciences usually is more a matter of specialization. We get to know are specific area of science very well.
Do yourself a favor in the future and refrain from mentioning your doctorate to strangers or new acquaintances, if you want to command their respect.
If you re-read my post, I did not post it to command respect, in fact I usually refrain from posting information about myself here in these forums but I did so because you seem to be arguing a point that,
a) you have never provided any evidence that you are right, you have merely made this assertion that you think everyone knows is self-evident
b) I personally deal with natural selection on a daily basis where I'm sure you are like most people and have had only a couple of courses which are entirely insufficient to understand much of the details and are probably not familiar with current works on the subject
I brought it up to be helpful and to let you know that I am not just some random internet guy trying to correct your misunderstanding of such a complex issue of sex in evolution.
To answer your questions:
- OF COURSE, a chimpanzee can’t tell whether he’s had a vasectomy or not, so it wouldn’t serve to lessen his desire for sex. But cut his balls off, Mr. p.HD., and he would completely lose his desire to have sex.
So you admit that the vehicle for the genes, the chimp, does not care whether or not he is passing along genes, he just has some innate desire to have sex.
Good. We can agree on that
- No male cares whether his super-model girlfriend is on the pill or not, as far as his genetically-controlled animalistic desires are concerned. The desire to procreate is not mindful; it’s physical.
Again, you agree that this innate desire to breed and pass along genes is actually controlled by a desire to have sex, not an actual desire to make children. Because if it were a desire to make children, the sterility would be a factor that decreases attractiveness or desire to mate.
Don’t you see what I mean about your doctorate blinding you and serving as an indicator that you are useless to real-world science?
If you stop insulting me, I will continue to try to teach you.
So we have established that animals, including humans, do not have a primary drive to have children but to have sex. Genes OTOH, are concerned with passing themselves down through successive generations, but cannot control this directly so they use tricks to make the vehicle in which they find themselves more likely than not to pass them along. They give human males a strong sex drive to breed with as many females as possible. Our genes have other tricks too like making us react to babies as cute and instill some desire to have one but those things are far less effective than the brute force attack of fucking everything in sight. Woman OTOH, have less time and a limited supply of genetic material do have more instinctual desires to have children than men, but they are also less intense than the desire to have sex. However, since we are primarily talking about gay men, then it stands to reason that they have no more desire to procreate than you are I do but the genes that code for sexual urges are still working fine.