Are they not the same species? Can jews not have sex with palestinians and produce offspring?
"Are they not the same species? Can jews not have sex with palestinians and produce offspring?
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Aren't all WHAT the same species. All humans can mate and produce offspring. They are of the same species. There is no real difference biologically between, say, Jews and Palestinians. Indeed, they come from the same place, and are, essentially identical. Yet, any human can mate with any other human, since they are all of the same species.
Humans, however, cannot mate with chimpanzees and produce offspring, despite the close genetic similarity between these two species. And chimpanzees cannot mate and reproduce with gibbons, either, or any of the other primate species. Do you have any idea how many species of primates there are...and that's just primates?
Danged big ark that must have been. Even just having a mating pair of all the primates would have pretty much filled it up, when you consider food and water and the like. 300 cubits isn't all that long a boat, really.
The Ark's a nice story, though. It's a nice cautionary tale. Do what the deity says or something bad will happen. See what happened back in Noah's day? Play nice, children, or something like that might happen to you.
Oh, no...no more floods, though. See that rainbow? Yeah...the next time it'll be fire or something, so you'd better act right and behave.
Now, let me tell you the story of Lot. That's another example of what happens when you're bad.