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Interesting that the above statement implies humans are designed and not evolved. Those who believe in an Intelligent Designer also largely believe that marriage is a lifelong commitment.We're not designed for monogamy.
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However, Murdoch admits that his Ethnographic Atlas does not represent a statistically valid sampling from which generalized conclusion are warranted:
Although such studies have been appearing of late at a geometrically increasing rate, all of them have exhibited one or more of five serious methodological errors, any one of which is sufficient to call into question the validity of the results. ...
After all, the revised tables incorporate nearly 50,000 distinct items of information, and the writer is by no means an authority on all the ethnographic areas of the world. Since errors reduce the dependability of any use made of the tabulated data, it is important that they be reduced to a minimum.
So, leaping to the conclusion that we are not designed for monogamy seems invalid. Using similar logic, given obesity stats, one could conclude we are not designed to be healthy.
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