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The obvious conclusion to draw from all this is that complex human feelings and behaviors can’t in general be given reductive evolutionary explanations.Agreed.
> There are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Yup. I'm a lot more confident that gay people exist than that ghosts exist, though :)
> Gay people are pretty used by now to being told that we don’t “fit in” to some overarching theory of nature that’s currently orthodox.
Agreed. It's tiresome.
> Evolutionary theory has contributed approximately zip to our understanding of human sexuality.
That's a point where I disagree, though I think most of what it's contributed is negative: debunking all kinds of wishful thinking on the part of neo-Victorians and Catholics.
> By all means continue to be puzzled that reproduction doesn’t explain every aspect of human behavior.
I don't plan to start being puzzled about that. Maybe you intended to post your comment on a different thread?