IS THE HUMAN GENOME DETERMINATE AS RESPECTS THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE?

A scientific study of a Danish population of homosexual men and women (see: https://www.newscientist.com/…/2155810-what-do-the-new-ga…/…)
shows a significant statistical linkage with a gene called TSHR associated with certain thyroidal pathologies in homosexual men and women, notably, “in a genetic condition called Grave’s disease, which causes the thyroid gland to become over-active, accelerating metabolism and leading to weight loss. Grave’s disease is more common in gay than straight men, and some research suggests that gay men tend to be thinner — which might be the result of thyroid overdrive.” 



Other notable pathologies in that homosexual population linked to a higher hospitalization rate than is so for a straight population are: Hashimoto's thyroiditis, primary biliary cirrhosis, psoriasis, rheumatic fever, myasthenia gravis, and localized scleroderma (with an exception being Dupuytren's contracture).



So, we may conclude that a tendency for choosing the homosexual lifestyle may be  itself as much a God-disapproved, sinful aberrant in the human genome as are the God-disapproved, sinful inheritances of any of the other diseases afflicting humans, as for example, alcoholism. But just as we may rightly and Scripturally hold that alcoholics should respond to education for overcoming any tendency for being a drunkard, so also may we rightly hold that persons inheriting a predisposition to homosexuality should also refrain from practicing it. In fact, we rightly and Scripturally hold that all straight men and women should educate themselves to what is God’s will in order to refrain from premarital and extra-marital sexual relations, even though the natural, normative, and God-approved inheritance of heterosexuality can result in a powerful drive to engage in sexual relations with a member of the opposite sex.

Just the same, however, is the fact that the right kind of environment (parental nurture, and our free-will choice of friends/associates) is crucial as respects conformity to God’s will no matter whatever happens to be the inherited sexual tendency in any individual. The bottom line is that genetics is not determinate as respects the likelihood that the homosexual lifestyle may be practiced, for we are reminded that not even all men who have the “gay” variants of certain genes are gay! One group of scientists (Alan Sanders at North Shore University, Illinois, and his team) investigating homosexuality reminds us that many other factors play a role, including the environment. Also, says Sanders (see article in the NewScientist journal quoted above), “There are probably multiple genes involved, each with a fairly low effect . . . There will be men who have the form of gene that increases the chance of being gay, but they won’t be gay.” 



Another report (https://www.huffpost.com/…/lgbtq-genetics-study_n_5d692f62e…)

echoes the material presented above as follows: 

“The researchers said thousands more genetic variants likely are involved and interact with factors that aren’t inherited, but that none of them cause the behavior nor can predict whether someone will be gay.


”The research “provides the clearest glimpse yet into the genetic underpinnings of same-sex sexual behavior,” said co-author Benjamin Neale, a psychiatric geneticist at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


“We also found that it’s effectively impossible to predict an individual’s sexual behavior from their genome. Genetics is less than half of this story for sexual behavior but it’s still a very important contributing factor,” Neale said.


”The study was released Thursday by the journal Science. Results are based on genetic testing and survey responses.”



Jehovah God has not left us in ignorance as to what is his will for us irrespective of our sinful (imperfect) genome. The Bible puts it this way: “For this is the will of God, that you should be holy and abstain from sexual immorality. Each one of you should know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not with greedy, uncontrolled sexual passion like the nations have that do not know God. No one should go beyond proper limits and take advantage of his brother in this matter, because Jehovah exacts punishment for all these things, just as we previously and strongly warned you. For God has called us, not for uncleanness, but for holiness. So, then, the man who disregards this is disregarding, not man, but God, who gives you his holy spirit” (1 Thessalonians 4:4-8).

A gay pride parade in Tel Aviv, Israel

Genesis 1:27 Does not Give Basis for Plurality of Persons in God

We do not look at the created likeness of God in a man (the human being Adam) for a plurality of persons in Adam, do we? No, we should no sooner do such a thing as we might were we also to think that we should look at God's creation of "them" (the man Adam and the woman Eve) for indication that in God there is mixed gender. We do not read "God created them in his image, but rather, "God created the man [Adam] in his image, in God's image he created him [Adam]." The apostle Paul uses this very gender-restricting imaging of God in Adam in order to make his point that the man is better suited for the role of headship over the woman than were one of the marriage partner's headship over the other a thing vested in the woman (1 Corinthians 11:7-10). It is true that in the matter of the role for exercising headship in a marriage, God has given that role to the masculine gender; that gender in humans more closely resembles God's identity only insofar as the matter of one's having the qualities for exercising headship is concerned. It has nothing to do with mental or logical acumen, but has to do with the emotional makeup of the female gender.

A New Study Shows That Honeybees Can Do Basic Arithmetic

And now this about honeybees, which reinforces an earlier study that showed that honeybees can eventually extrapolate the multiple of a distance that researchers had been using by which they were increasing the distances between the deposits of nectar that honeybees got as a reward for their arriving at the different sites having the nectar. After a few forays for nectar, the honeybees were able mathematically to figure the multiple which they should use in order to find more quickly the next and correct site for securing their reward of nectar. Now, what naivety evolutionists betray in themselves because they assert that such an incredible ability became a honeybee's possession through countless, previous generations which incorporated countless random/purposeless mutations in the genomes of their ancestors so that natural selection finally engineered a genome able to do basic arithmetic. It is sheer foolishness in atheists who can suppose such a thing.

MASHABLE.COM

New study says honeybees can do basic math

The results of another study show us that bumblebees' brains are programmed with an algorithm that allows them to sort scattered locations of flower patches they had earlier visited, but will now account for newer locations the bees encounter in subsequent foraging flights. The sorting algorithm gives the bees a map of novel routes the bees will then traverse for optimizing their travel times to all locations on subsequent foraging flights, because the flights will include not only the locations of flower patches originally encountered, but will now account for locations of more flower patches not encountered on the maiden foraging excursion because they were subsequently, artificially added by the scientists.  Here is how the scientists report their discovery: 

"Bees optimized their flight distances by rearranging flower visitation sequences. This resulted in the development of a primary route (trapline) and two or three less frequently used secondary routes. Bees consistently used these routes after overnight breaks while occasionally exploring novel possibilities. We discuss how maintaining some level of route flexibility could allow traplining animals to cope with dynamic routing problems, analogous to the well‐known traveling salesman problem."

This algorithm and additional arithmetical feats are all stored in a brain about the size of a grass seed.

CHRISTENDOM IS DUE THE WRATH OF GOD

This plaque is in the Holocaust Museum. Its message is stark testimony that the vast majority of Europeans during years of the Holocaust were in one camp or the other when it came to "the Jewish question": 1) many of that majority were actively complicit with the Nazis for persecuting the Jews; however, 2) most of that majority were passively complicit either out of craven cowardice, or out of antisemitic prejudice. Christendom's influence throughout many centuries in Europe, and wherever else it held sway, was responsible for the abysmal moral and spiritual failure that cost millions of lives, including many of the lives of Jehovah's righteous Christian servants. Christendom's unrepentant masses and the unrepentant masses in the rest of false religion in the world will soon experience fulfillment of Revelation 18:4-8.

"The great majority of Europeans during the period of the Holocaust were neither killers nor victims. But whether or not they were involved in the ongoing genocide or understood the full extent of the "Final Solution," most could observe small events forming part of the catastrophe as it unfolded in their own communities.

"In France, the existence of numerous detention camps for Jewish refugees -- many established even before the German conquest -- was known to the public. In eastern Europe, Poles watched as ghettos were filled with deportees from foreign countries and nearby towns and villages. Like citizens of the Soviet Union and Baltic republics, Poles knew about the massacres taking place in nearby forests. From 1933 on, Germans watched in silence as their Jewish neighbors were isolated, dispossessed, and deported for "resettlement in the East." 

"Some bystanders sought to exploit the situation of the Jews for personal gain, but most merely stood by, neither collaborating nor coming to the aid of the victims. This passivity amounted to acquiescence, and the planners and executors of the "Final Solution" counted on bystanders not intervening in the process of genocide."

Who Deserve the Epithet "Bird Brain" for Pejorative Meaning -- Birds or Evolutionists?

Use of an abusive epithet like "bird brain" is an injustice against avian species, certainly so as respects New Caledonian crows; their brains afford them ability to make tools they can use in solving a problem that confronts them, as when food remains out of any immediate reach afforded them merely by their extending their beaks and talons toward the food. What kind of tool can they make for securing food out of their reach? They can use the product of their own compound tool manufacture! See below. (All bolding of text below is by me (Al Kidd) for sake of emphasis.)

"An international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and the University of Oxford have revealed that New Caledonian crows are able to create tools by combining two or more otherwise non-functional elements, an ability so far observed only in humans and great apes.

"The new study shows that these birds can create long-reaching tools out of short combinable parts -- an astonishing mental feat. Assemblage of different components into novel functional and maneuverable tools has, until now, only been observed in apes, and anthropologists regard early human compound tool manufacture as a significant step in brain evolution. [Apparently wrongfully so regarded by evolutionists! A truly parsimonious explanation is that the creature's abilities were determined by the Creator, not by purposeless, non-teleological, random mutations in a creature's genome. (The bracketed excursus here is mine, Al Kidd's.)] Children take several years before creating novel tools, probably because it requires anticipating properties of yet unseen objects. Such anticipation, or planning, is usually interpreted as involving creative mental modeling and executive functions.

"The study demonstrates that this species of crow possess highly flexible abilities that allow them to solve complex problems involving anticipation of the properties of objects they have never seen. 'The finding is remarkable because the crows received no assistance or training in making these combinations, they figured it out by themselves,' says Auguste von Bayern, first author of the study from the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology and University of Oxford." 
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/10/181024112201.htm…

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"The finding that a bird species has the capability to rapidly discover how to construct novel, functional tools through assemblage of different, otherwise non-functional, parts [for construction of a long-distance reaching aid], matches and exceeds present evidence for this ability in non-human primates."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33458-z

[Second bracketed Excursus by me (Al Kidd): Evolutionists have the mathematically untenable -- hence unreasonable and unscientific -- and naive hypothesis that compound tool manufacture in the New Caledonian crows is co-evolution at work. Their claim is just so much word salad, word magic. This crow's ability under review here is result of the properties of agency that the Creator put into its brain; yes, for the crow's brain to ground "creative mental modeling and executive functions." The crow's brain did not come by its compound-tool manufacturing ability through blind, random mutations in some supposed genome belonging to a creature from which the crow supposedly evolved. And what? Supposedly the ability for compound-tool manufacture co-evolved through species supposedly ancestral to humans, but not even then with the depth of the crow's ability when it supposedly reappeared in primates supposedly ancestral both to humans and chimpanzees?! Clearly, the properties that are inherently present in an animal's brain are not necessarily predictably ensconced within a hierarchical taxonomy that supposedly lays out some progressively ascending pathway in an evolution of species when there is display of more complex cognitive functions than was so for alleged ancestral species. It all depended upon the Creator's good pleasure as respects what He did or did not do when He was creating a set of inheritable properties that informs the brains in the specially created, original exemplars/progenitors of some genus.]

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From Vélodrome d'hiver to Drancy to Auschwitz

                                              SOURCES:
re testimony about Auschwitz, see the non-truncated "Felix Opatowski: Gatehouse to Hell," at: 
https://vimeo.com/47936118

re the video track for “The Vel d'Hiv Roundup of 1942,” see Haley Scholz’s YouTube Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SY9...

re the audio track I used for the edit of Haley Scholz's “The 
Vel d'Hiv Roundup of 1942,” the music is titled "Ameno," 
by songwriters Eric Levi and Guy Protheroe (1996), and performed here by Dee Yan-Kee, which may be accessed 
here: https://freemusicarchive.org/search/…

re opinion written in the red text on yellow background (see below), it is what was essentially given March 2010 in 
Munich, by Mordechay Lewy, the then-Israeli Ambassador 
to the Holy See, on the silence of Pope Pius XII regarding 
the Holocaust and his failure to condemn publicly anti-
Semitism. 

For the full article that was used for presentation below of Ambassador Mordechay Lewy's educated opinion, see THE JERUSALEM POST at https://www.jpost.com/…/Why-was-Pope-...

The video is entirely for educational purpose, and I have 
made it available free to the public -- completely free of 
any transactional basis whatsoever.

This video (click on the video's play button above) is about French collaboration with the Nazis for the deportation of Jews to the death camps. Pope Pius XII knew that the Holocaust was happening, but he chose to remain silent and "neutral," supposedly so as not to disturb Roman Catholics in Germany, and thereby bring on Nazi reprisals against the Church should German Roman Catholics become hostile to the Nazis. The German populace, however, was already well acquainted with the fact of the Holocaust; neither the Roman Catholics nor the Lutherans were disposed to shed their anti-Semitism and raise an extraordinary, public outcry against the Nazis' treatment of the Jews and other persecuted groups (e.g., Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses).

Can the God of the Bible Ever Approve a Cover-up of Men's Wicked Deeds?

What a contrast is drawn between the fears (lack of peace) and horrors/atrocities evidenced in manmade, Satan-controlled governments, on the one hand (see below), and, on the other hand, the rulership and peace of Jehovah God's heavenly government in the hands of Jesus the Messiah whose governance of God's people will be by "justice and righteousness from now on and forever" (Isaiah 9:7)!

"In 1990, Soviet President Gorbachev admitted that the Soviet Union was responsible for the murders of [22,000] Polish prisoners of war at Katyn in 1940. No one was ever prosecuted. 

"In 2012, declassified documents proved that the U.S. suppressed information that attested Soviet guilt. "No British government has ever publicly charged the former Soviet Union with responsibility for the Katyn Massacre. 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were murdered in the Katyn Massacre. More murders followed in the years after the Massacre in an effort to keep the truth buried forever."

The cover-up was approved by Churchill and FDR, "a subterfuge seen as a necessary evil in order to maintain the delicate political balance for the greater good."



The photograph was made in 1943, and shows German soldiers uncovering a part of the mass grave in which the Soviet NKVD had buried in 1940 their executions of 22,000 Polish soldiers and Polish elite (intellectuals and professionals).