> I
> > think that turkeys can also have virgin "births", yet these offspring
are
> > always male. (Anyone else familiar with this?) Jesus was a male, so
he
> > either wasn't born of a virgin, or he was a turkey.
> >
> > (COURT 2/27) Jason: Interesting comments. This kind of knowledge is
> > beyond me - I can't really offer any more on what you have said here.
I
> > think the quandary here would be how male chromosomes could get into
the
> > fertilized egg. It would be interesting if anyone else here can offer
> some
> > insight into this issue. Raymond? Does this fall into your area of
> expertise?
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> I don't know about Raymond, but it falls into mine.
>
> There are a couple of ways a virgin could get pregnant. First, if a guy
> ejaculates near the mouth of the vagina, it's possible for some sperm to
> swim up the tract and thus get pregnant while retaining "technical"
> virginity. (One could think of other, similar ways sperm could be placed
in
> the vagina without penile insertion). In this case, the kid could be
either
> sex. Second, it's possible that one of her eggs could be stimulated by
> something (lightening, maybe - this is theoretical, but, especially with
> the sheep thing, generally accepted by fertility researchers as being
> possible) which would stimulate the egg to divide, differentiate, implant
> and become a person. However, these kids would ALWAYS be female. And of
> course, there are all kinds of ways (in vitro fertilization, gamete
> intrafallopian transfer, sperm injection and implantation - I'll explain
> all these procedures if you want me to) but they all involve
fertilization
> of egg with sperm outside the body and then insertion into the female via
a
> thin catheter which would not break the hymen (though the speculum
probably
> would).
>
> I don't know about birds - I'm a mammalian reproductive physiologist. I
DO
> know that Mary did not have Jesus by virgin birth unless she was either
> doing some serious fooling around with Joseph, (presumably), or else it
was
> a miracle, which I don't accept.
>
> April
>
>
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