Buddha1 said:
There are enough evidences now to prove that Darwin's theory around animal sexuality was completely wrong. Particularly, the following claims of Darwin can be proved wrong and biased:
What Darwin has contended:
- The basic purpose of sex: According to Darwin Sex happens amongst animals only so they can reproduce. It has no other purpose. If there is pleasure in sex its only so that animals are driven to the opposite sex in order to procreate. If sexual desire leads to bonding it's only so that the male and female can rear their children.
This line of thinking was completley in tandem with the classical Christian stand of sex and its purpose. I'm going to show how Darwin was biased in its favour --- so much so that he chose to ignore the facts and mislead humankind.
This stand has been vehememntly and forcibly pursued by the scientific community till today.
- The theory of sexual selection: As per this theory, every conscious or unconscious action of the male is geared towards making him more competitive to be able to mate with the female, with the ultimate aim of procreation. The entire biological make-up, each and every cell of the male is designed to help in this mating process with the female (and vice versa). Even his social activities are designed to help him mate with the female. In short, if a male breathes it is in order to be able to mate with the female.
In the light of the above, male-female sex and sexual desires assumes enormous (even exclusive) and all encompassing biolgical importance and heterosexuality gets scientific validity.
When Darwin encountered any animal trait that led away from this male-female mating, he quickly sidelined this as an 'anomaly' or 'abnormality' that should not have been there. Therefore, the only logical conclusion for this was that such deviation must have an abnormal cause --- as in something going wrong. The scientific community has blindly followed this heterosexual agenda till date.
This is the same Christian bias of Darwin (though he may have opposed christianity he was heavily affected by its sexual mores!) mentioned earlier.
- The basic purpose of life: According to Darwin, the basic purpose of life is survival and the continuance of the species. Living beings just live so that they can live on, and when they die to be able to pass on their genes. That is all there is to it.
I'm going to prove how the heterosexual society, has cunningly glorified Darwin because he suits its agenda. This society is dangerously obsessed with 'quantity' of life, and has completeley discarded its 'quality'.
My contention is
- Purpose of sex: The basic purpose of sex is not procreation. The basic purpose is bonding --- that too particularly between the same sex. Reproduction is the secondary purpose of sex -- in that it just used sex to procreate because sex was the most effective avialable method.
- The sexual selection theory: It is absolutely crap, and the importance given to male-female sex or sexual desire is extremely out of context, and to prove that I have to prove the statement below:
- The purpose of life: What I'm going to prove is that the basic purpose of life is not survival but "meaningful survival". This means that the quality of life is just as important (or perhaps more important than) the quantity of life.
In this respect, while sex between male-female represents 'quantity' (which the heterosexual society and its science is obsessed with); sexual bonds between male and male (or female and female) and the mother-child bond represents 'quality' (The heterosexual society has completely destroyed the quality of life --- and that is the biggest problem with it).
Interesting thoughts about Darwin but your analysis of the Christian view of the relationship between man and woman is quite wrong.
Some christians over history may have considered sex only suitable for producing children but that is not scriptural at all.
Genesis Chapter 2 (right at the beginning of the Bible) explains what the relationship between men and women is about. Jesus in the New Testament
From the 'Message' traslation:
18GOD said, "It's not good for the Man to be alone;
I'll make him a helper, a companion." 19So GOD formed from the dirt of the ground all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the Man to see what he would name them. Whatever the Man called each living creature, that was its name. 20The Man named the cattle, named the birds of the air, named the wild animals; but he didn't find a suitable companion.
21GOD put the Man into a deep sleep. As he slept he removed one of his ribs and replaced it with flesh. 22GOD then used the rib that he had taken from the Man to make Woman and presented her to the Man.
23The Man said,
"Finally! Bone of my bone,
flesh of my flesh!
Name her Woman
for she was made from Man."
24Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh.
Note that the woman is to be a helper and a companion first and that 'becoming one flesh' is an act of unification signifying their relationship as two people joined as one partnership. This is in sharp contrast to the description of the animals which are simply made male and female 'from the dust of the ground'.
It is true that man and woman are told to be fruitful and multiply but it does not anywhere indicate that that is the only purpose of sex. I fear some latter day unscriptural dogma (particularly espoused by Roman Catholicism) has been wrongly assumed to be what the Christians (and Judaic) God is actually recorded as saying in the Bible.
Jesus reiterates this and expands on it in Matthew Chapter 19:
'One day the Pharisees were badgering him: "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
4He answered, "Haven't you read in your Bible that the Creator originally made man and woman for each other, male and female? 5And because of this, a man leaves father and mother and is firmly bonded to his wife, becoming one flesh--no longer two bodies but one. 6Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart."
7They shot back in rebuttal, "If that's so, why did Moses give instructions for divorce papers and divorce procedures?"
8Jesus said, "Moses provided for divorce as a concession to your hardheartedness, but it is not part of God's original plan. 9I'm holding you to the original plan, and holding you liable for adultery if you divorce your faithful wife and then marry someone else. I make an exception in cases where the spouse has committed adultery."
10Jesus' disciples objected, "If those are the terms of marriage, we're stuck. Why get married?"
11But Jesus said, "Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn't for everyone. 12Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked--or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you're capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it."'
Whether you agree with what is said here or not, note that it is all to do with relationships. The procreation of children and continuance of the human race is not even mentioned.
Kind regards to all,
Gordon.