Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uoft02.utoledo.edu!desire.wright.edu!sbishop
From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.155357.1859@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 20:53:57 GMT
References: <1990Nov15.141028.25126@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>  <1693@beguine.UUCP>
Followup-To: sci.bio
Organization: University Computing Services, Wright State University
Lines: 32

In article <1693@beguine.UUCP>, danielg@earl.med.unc.edu (Daniel Gene Sinclair) writes:
>>>For me, centuries of spontaneous monogamous behaviour is enough to
>>>convince me that SOME of us ARE naturally monogamous and that
>>>promiscuity, where it exists in SOME, is largely a culturally
>>>imposed phenomenon.
>>>
>>>Apologies if this seems to simplistic to Netters at large.
>>>
>>Then explain the high rate of divorce.
> 
> I suggest that this is for at least two reasons.  Firstly, men and women
> were created to firstly have a relationship with God.  Because we choose
> to leave God out of marriage these days (as well as on the periphery of
> our lives), we do not enjoy the help and blessing of God.
> 

PUL-EEASE!!! You are in the wrong group!  This is sci.bio not talk.religion.

> Secondly, because we have not personally received Christ and surrendered
> to Him, we instead surrender to our own inherent selfishness.  When times
> get hard, it is easy to blame your partner, who is just as imperfect as
> you.  The only way to conquer this is to know Him.  Period.  
> 
> No Jesus, No Peace.
> Know Jesus, Know Peace.
> 
> Of course people call me a fundamentalist!  But if you knew Jesus, you'd
> be bananas for Him too!

I've had much more fundamentalist religious training than you posibly can
imagine.  And no I am not a fundy or even a christian.  So take this over
to the proper group or start discussing SCIENCE!