Parthogenesis: How do creationists explain this? (page 3)

Abaddon

Holy Mary 4ucker of Sharks!

He's not the Messiah, he's a very nautical bouy...

Crumpet

I hear the best way to have a Virgin birth is to have sex with someone then blot it out from your memory.... and voila! you can deny all knowledge of what happened. I think Mary did something similar, it was very convenient of her to suggest to her betrothed that it was GOD who impregnated her.

Oh god - am dying of laughter now Sirona!

You people are so freakin funny!

Marcel

@sirona and how did she manage to give joseph his angel-visions? i guess with a good ol' bottle of whiskey and a baseball bat? :D

brinjen

I don't agree. Creationists would simply say that God is so clever that he created creatures who don't need any sexual intercourse to procreate.

So why just a few species and not all of them? If we were created, why do some species still seem to be evolving? I got an example here of the Cane Toad

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1572637.htm

They were introduced in Australia in North Queensland more than 70 years ago. They quickly multiplied and spread across Queensland then into the Northern Territory, they are a pest because they are poisonous right throughout their life cycle and are killing off a lot of native species. They are also able to breed quicker and much more quickly than our native frog. They are evolving in the NT as we speak, developing longer legs to enable them to move faster. From them there are other examples of evolution. The crows in Queensland have learned that if they flip the cane toad on its back and eat it from its belly out they avoid the poison glands which are located on their back. Several species of snakes and lizards are developing smaller mouths, making it harder for them to eat the toads.

There are plenty of other examples of evolution happening right now if you look.

Sirona

I think evolution is fact.

I was simply stating an argument that creationists may put forward.

You raise a good counter argument in that we can see species evolving now....

Sirona

brinjen

My apologies Sirona. I didn't word that last sentence too well. I was making an argument against the argument, not you.

py

Most Christians don't blame God for impregnating Mary. It was the Ghost who dunnit. Maybe He did the shark too. But seriously, if a shark can produce offspring without mating and humans can't (with the exception of Mary) then they are more evolved than we are.

Sad emo

If God didnt depend on the male female thingumy why does it say "male and female he created them". And why did the animals go in two by two into the ark? back at ya!

Hi Crumpet, sorry I took so long to get back - 'puter problems again, just before an essay due again grrrr!

It only says 'male and female he created them' of humans - hence some of that added emphasis on the male-female relationship.

The animals going into the ark two by two doesn't really deflect from my theory that the male-female relationship for the other animals may have been the main form of reproduction but not the sole one.

What did you think of my 'more sensible' option that the shark may be a hermaphrodite?

Parthogenesis: How do creationists explain this?

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