[dangus]

My college biology textbook. Actually, it may have been about one every 350 million or something like that. The number is hypothetical, based on the likelihood of several unlikely events happening; they have not observed an instance of it, yet, among humans, but they have been able to induce it in animals by "stacking the deck" for those unlikely occurrences.

[dangus]

I just realized it HAS been contradicted by the shroud. the shroud has a blood phenotype of AB. A self-fertilized ova (which is how the virginal births occur) would be either O, A or B but to have both A and B would mean that he recieved a chromosome with a genotype of A from one parent, and B from the other.

Thus raising an interesting issue: If the shroud is authentic, it means that Jesus either
A. received a genotype as a distinct act of *physical* creation,
or,
B. recieved TWO sets of chromosomes from Mary.

Come to think of it, that issue is raised even if the Shroud is NOT authentic, simply by our knowledge of genotype.