(July 23, 2017 at 12:12 pm)Epiphany Wrote:(July 23, 2017 at 9:28 am)Brian37 Wrote: But it still remains that there is no such thing as magic babies born without a second set of DNA...
A fatherless child is possible, but there's a big problem with the New Testament's rendition: such a child is always female.
Not in primates. That old mythology back when it was written intended you to believe that there was no fucking going on. There is no story about a female stealing ejaculate from a male and secretly shoving in her vagina in the Bible. Back then that would have been the only way to fool the public into thinking you were a virgin.
In the human species it requires TWO sets of DNA, and back then they did not have the modern C section surgery so the baby was born through the birth canal.
I don't know what you mean by "fatherless child", outside marriage, but as far as evolutionary biology in humans, it takes TWO sets of DNA. And back then the idiots who wrote that book had no clue how the human body male or female worked. They literally believed back then that girls could magically pop out a kid with no help.
Now, also keep in mind, the motif of purity was quite common in the ancient world. The mortality rate was much higher in antiquity and females were expected to reproduce at a far younger age, and girls were considered property and were bartered between families. They were treated more like cars, if you can afford a never driven car that is new and never used you'd prefer that. But also, equally important was the scientific ignorance back then of menstruation. Men found periods unclean and dirty and had no modern understanding of how the female body worked.
Even the first mythology of Buddha had his Mother being told by the divine world that she would give a gift to the world, and even his birth is depicted as avoiding the birth canal.
Point being both Mary and Jesus are manufactured characters created by the NT writers to compete with Hebrews and the surrounding polytheism of their time. There is no such thing, based on the claims of the bible, as what the bible claims as far as the claimed birth. And even if the bible had said Mary was fucked in the standard way, a baby still would not grow up with super powers regardless.