(January 31, 2013 at 3:37 pm)catfish Wrote: I'm not talking about Parthenogenesis . I'm talking about a virgin getting pregnant and having a baby.
Asexual reproduction its the same thing.
(January 31, 2013 at 3:37 pm)catfish Wrote: There's not much to it really. A virgin gets a little semen in her vagina (past her unbroken hymen), and conceives a child...
Marry: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?"
A quote from the Quran but she say something like that in the Bible, the book Islam ripped off, it's easier to rip something off than invent something entirely new yourself. But I don't think Mary would be asking about that if she knew a bit of semen had gone up there. They would have known the basics of biology. It was clearly meant to be a miracle story in archetypal hero tradition. But if you believe in a God who does nothing, other than create the universe originally as a God of the gaps then that still much the same thing as atheism. A God that you know nothing about and does absolutely nothing other than create the big bang is the same in practice as a God who doesn't exist. There's no real reason why we should care about something like that even if it did exist.
Christianity not only has a God who does something in terms of miracles and such but became a human to share in our Earthly experience. Before suffering and dying on the cross as a sacrifice to himself to free humanity of sin (rules he imposed to begin with) and all that business. So there would be a point to that God. There wouldn't be any point to your unfalsifibale God who exists because you think he does. You either go the whole way with full on supernatural magic, miracles, spiritual healings, saints and angels, holy relics, demonic possession, you've got Satan there and everything else. Or you don't bother. The complete package comes with a hefty burden of proof because of the nature of all the potentially testable claims. There have been studies into whether prayer works for instance, apparently it doesn't.
