There go the scientific arguments against Jesus’ Virgin Birth?

There go the scientific arguments against Jesus’ Virgin Birth? October 13, 2008

Well, it’s actually more complicated than that, but this news story about a female shark giving birth to a pup that has no genetic material from a male shark reminds me of a long argument I once had with an atheist. He claimed that it was scientifically impossible for there to be a birth in nature among complex organisms without the genetic material of two sexes, ergo the Virgin Birth is a pure fiction. Well, sharks aren’t humans, and I don’t think we suddenly have the evidence to inductively prove the science of the Virgin Birth, but we seem to have disarmed the “scientifically impossible” attack.

But, hey, what Catholic needs a shark’s virgin birth to believe in the truth of the perpetual virginity of Mary?


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