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Just because it happens in nature, doesn’t make it morally right

                 Recently, a gay, Muslim, drag queen (yes you read that right) was featured by buzz feed. In the interview, this person claimed that quantum mechanics helped them to understand that gender was on a spectrum and it helped them come to grips with their identity. InspiringPhilosophy had a Facebook post describing this and had a short snippet on how this reasoning is flawed. I have also made comments like this when I talk about science, faith, and morality regarding various specific topics, such as whether or not homosexuality is genetic. What I would like to do today is to bring these threads together and expound a bit on this topic of morality as we understand it as Christians vs. what we observe in nature.                 We can see all sorts of things in nature that we can say are morally good, like mice supporting each other through a maze. We can also see things in nature that we as humans would say are morally bad, such as male sharks or dolphins raping their res