Seriously, I don’t need a first century mystic to explain the complexities of the biology of sex to me, but if it makes some heads explode, I’m all for it.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Seriously, I don’t need a first century mystic to explain the complexities of the biology of sex to me, but if it makes some heads explode, I’m all for it.
Of course he has a Y chromosome, the Bible says so! Well not in so many words, but if you read between the lines it’s there, plain as day.
Presumably, even without a Y chromosome, Jesus still had male genitalia, otherwise some eyebrows would have risen at his circumcision?
This doesn’t make my head explode, but if it achieves that with anyone, good. I don’t think this would get through to theists though, I’m sure there are apologetics for this somewhere.
NelC, He was circumcised for our penis’s sins? That would cover a lot of ground. You’ve got to wonder what else was left to pardon with the whole cross thing.
The H is for Haploid.
That wasn’t a penis. He just had a very large clitoris.
Amusing comic is amusing! (I know nobody could prove it, but surely making people’s heads explode is murder? Jesuuus! You’ve been a VERY naughty boy!) However, I can’t help but notice that the previous comic is maybe even more well suited to this blog – http://nonadventures.com/2015/10/10/cuttle-buddies/
Hooray for indiscriminate Celphalopods!
am i the only person whose first thought was, “where did the glass of water go?”
The actual answers to this are entertaining:
http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/ci_3207769
The SRY gene was on Mary’s X chromosome or something.
“”Of course Jesus had DNA and a Y chromosome – and the source for half of that DNA [and the Y chromosome] would presumably be pure and simple miracle” [Actual. Quote]
“God created something like a sperm and caused it to fertilize Mary’s egg” [Another. Actual. Quote}
Whatever, I’m not Catholic, there was no virgin birth. But Jesus is still magic!
Also: http://bibleanswerstand.org/QA_DNA.htm
God put the Y chromosome directly into Mary’s ovum!
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=84865
All genetic material comes from God!
It’s a miracle, stop asking questions!!!
Don’t mix science and religion!
If it was a very large clitoris, does that mean Jesus came pre-circumsized, and that he had to squat to pee?
Typical. He’s left the teabag in the cup while he’s drinking it. Philistine.
He’s left the teabag in the cup while he’s drinking it. Philistine.
Maybe that’s some secret signal that he’s a tea partier.
The whole “the son proceeds from the father” really makes much more sense if you think of it as being a preformationist concept. The 3rd person of the trinity turned himself into a spermatozoic homunculus, and entered Mary’s womb (which, like a fertile field, doesn’t contribute anything to the fetus except nutrition) to grow into a baby.
Some babies look like their mothers because fetal development can be affected by maternal visual impressions.
Pregnant women looking at rabbits causes harelip, for example.
It’s schmience!
Oh, if only, if only … they would practise what they preach.
Jesus didn’t have a Why chromosome, he had a How chromosome.
Aren’t all penises basically large clitoris?
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Wait a minute: I’m explaining the joke, aren’t I?
@18 laurentweppe
Not really. Both are phalluses, but technically a clitoris doesn’t envelop the distal portion of the urethra, while a penis does. The distinction is murky and there are all sorts of intermediate features, but that’s pretty much what the differences between the two amount to.
Why couldn’t Jesus have inherited a Y chromosome from his (genetic) father? Being a virgin birth isn’t really relevant— I’m pretty sure they could have figured out artificial insemination back then even without God’s assistance.
makes sense to ?? Male is the default, it only takes those chromysomies to make a woman instead (after all man was first and woman just an afterthought for appeasing the man, eh). Disregard what bio-loggy tells us, that’s only Science, Religion is the thuthier truth.
*head *asploding*
@ astro #8
Obviously Jesus turned the glass of water into his cup of tea.
I’m not sure why people are surprised at the apologist answers. The entire birth story is counterfactual, there’s no reason the Y chromosome need be bound by logic. “God put it there along with the rest of the miraculous conception” aaaaand done.
Wait a second, though… at least two of the Gospels trace Jesus’s genealogy back to King David… through Joseph. And since the Bible is 100% all true no lie, then J-dog must have been carrying Joseph’s Y chromosome.
So that must mean… er, hang on, I got this… Joseph was God? Wait, that can’t be right. So God used Joseph as a sperm donor? Kinky.
My first thought: “When will so-far-unnamed superhero(ine) in the first panel complete her sentence fragment?”
I told a colleague at work about this, and she reasoned that chromosomes didn’t exist back then. They weren’t invented until the 19th/20th century. So there.
Pierce, her name is Wonderella, and she’s absolutely the BEST.
Come on everybody, it’s not that hard. Yahweh is male so He must have an XY chromosome pair. There was a 50% chance that the Holy Spirit, who impregnated Mary, carried an X instead of a Y chromosome and Jesus became female.
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I just came to realize that with the Holy Spirit being a sperm cell, the Holy Trinity makes a lot more sense.