In truth, the actor playing the banjo players is not inbred.
Posted on 11/06/2018 12:24:18 PM PST by ETL
“Early humans were genetically perfect, thus inbreeding was a good thing for them.”
Would only take a few generations for imperfections to crop up, however—which is why law against incest was written. It is notable though, there there were no laws on incest until Moses, about 1,500 BC. Abraham himself married his half-sister.
It is also interesting that Abraham’s nephew, Lot, was condemned....for sex with his own daughters (giving rise to the Moabite & Amonite nations)—so certain forms of incest were known as wrong (at least parent/child incest).
Noah was a pretty good genetic choke point for us all.
That said, there are two camps: (1) she was his half-sister (different mothers) or (2)Sarai was the daughter of Iscah and Abraham’s deceased brother Haran (and thus his niece).
The express language is unclear. The oral tradition takes the position that’s she was his niece.
Icky, either way, I agree.
can’t we just let sleeping dogs lie...
Certainly created mental abnormalities in today’s democrats.
Abnormalities in early Homo, such as bone thickening of the skull, scientists believe resulted in smaller brain size, thus began the branch that led to modern liberals.
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By the time the Law was given, Hebrews had been mixed with the sinful seed of Ham in Egypt.
That was why it mattered.
That's an awfully small sample. It is rarely emphasized how few ancient human remains we have discovered.
This is not to say that the hypothesis is stupid or anything, just that the evidence needed to do real analysis isn't exactly there.
In truth, the actor playing the banjo players is not inbred.
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But we know that the “oral tradition” began after the return to the land. Guesswork most likely, since Moses got his version directly from Yehova at Sinai.
I sure wouldn’t mary my sister (if I had one).
No Wilma, your brother can't come and stay for Christmas.
The most popular poster in my college dorm.
She actually visited our dorm, just prior to the last ice age.
I think a more “recent” collection of bones showing genetic abnormalities can be found in native Hawaiian excavations.
With bowlegged wimmin'.
That is disgusting!
That certainly wouldn’t surprise me. As I said, the hypothesis isn’t stupid, it just doesn’t have a lot of data available from the very distant past.
On the subject of inbreeding, I once read a book by a doctor in Saudi Arabia who called the Saudi royal family “an irreproducible laboratory of genetic defects.”
“But we know that the “oral tradition” began after the return to the land.”
No, it was given to Moshe at Mt. Sinai.
But I concur there are major issues with it; the written versions are not clearly recorded, conflict, and were prepared much later.
Hence, the two reasonable camps.
Arguing in your favor, would be that the narrower interpretation (half-sibling) would help explain the problem with fertility, whereas Abraham had no problem conceiving with Hagar.
Ha!
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