The prenatal influence of visual impressions

[Reforged]

Oh, this is rich. This is from young earth creationist Henry Morris:

It should not be overlooked, however, that Jacob was over ninety years old at this time, that he was a very intelligent and [a] careful observer, and that he had spent most of his long life raising and studying cattle, sheep, and goats. He would have been most unlikely to have been taken in by a groundless superstition....

There is a great deal, even today, that scientists have not been able to work out concerning the transmission of hereditary factors. In a certain population, there are multitudes of different characteristics which may appear in different individual animals of that species. The variational potential in the DNA molecular structure is tremendous. Exactly what it is that determines the actual characteristics a particular individual [or animal] may have, out of all the potential characteristics that are theoretically available in the gene pool, is not yet known in any significant degree. It may be that Jacob had learned certain things about these animals which modern biologists have not yet even approached.

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The last part made me laugh. The image of a 90 year old sheep herder sitting on a rock one day, thinking through some theoretical biology then screaming "EUREKA!" and throwing a stick into a pond. All the while grey, bespectacled men wearing lab coats with clipboards are gasping in awe.