(October 17, 2015 at 11:12 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: In college, I once argued that, since maleness is something that evolved later in the development of genetically-reproducing life, it stands to reason that a Creator, if one exists, cannot be male. To me, the reasonable pronoun to assign to the god-concept would be the female pronoun, if any. Life began as all-female; the development of sexual reproduction, and thus the possibility of "maleness", was not a thing for the first billion years of life on earth. Some have even posited that while the mechanical structures for sexual reproduction appeared about 3 billion years ago, it may have been less than one billion years ago that actual sexual reproduction began.
Either way, God is not a dude.
Edit to Add: By "mechanical structures", I don't mean penises, but the biochemical basis for DNA that is "male" and "female", set up for genetic recombination based on pairing.
But in early jewish tradition he had a wife.
Quote:Some biblical scholars believe that Asherah at one time was worshiped as the consort of Yahweh, the national God of Israelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.