Where did Jesus get His Y chromosome?
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An aspect of the Virgin Birth you may not have considered:
But there's a problem with arguing Jesus came about through cloning or parthenogenesis - he would have been born a girl. In the last few decades science revealed that to be male you need a Y chromosome and the only place you can get one is from a man.
"There's a big split over the Y chromosome issue," says Boston University theology professor Wesley Wildman. One thing Catholics and Protestants seem to agree on is that Jesus was fully human and male, so he must have carried the usual male quotient of DNA. It's not the Y chromosome he needed per se but a gene called SRY normally carried on the Y.
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Posted by: Fhabets | November 22, 2005 7:30 AM