Thursday, August 5, 2010

Nice guys can be false teachers!

Hey Doc, Could you please help me answer this question. Nick (with a ministry in northern NJ)
Dear Creation Science Alive,
I have some scientific questions relating to the Virgin Birth that I'm hoping you can help me with. I found the following in an article from The Seattle Times entitled, "What would Jesus' DNA do?":

"Georgetown University professor of theology John Haught [wrote], 'To imply that Jesus is somehow exempt from ordinary natural laws and biological patterns [including having DNA and male chromosomes] would, in my view, be a failure to take the incarnation seriously.' This is hard to square with the virgin birth in light of modern biology. It's true that asexual reproduction, called parthenogenesis, happens in some fish, insects, and even a lizard species, and artificially in a few mammals, through cloning. But if cloning or parthenogenesis were involved, Jesus would look a lot more like Mary. He'd be a woman, for one thing, since females always beget females. In humans, females package some of their DNA in two matched X chromosomes, males in a single X and Y. So if you're a male, there's only one way you could have gotten your Y chromosome, and that's from your biological father. Where would Jesus have gotten his Y?"

If Jesus' DNA could be analyzed today, what do you think it would show?
Jesus, being fully man in addition to being fully God, would have had a full set of human genes. Every normal set of human genes has paired alleles from the father and the mother, except in the Y chromosome. Where did Jesus get his "father" alleles? If God created a sperm cell with a Y chromosome and alleles untainted with Adamic behavioral traits or original sin wouldn't that mean Jesus wasn't a descendant of Adam but, only of Eve considering he would only be inheriting Mary's mitochondrial DNA and the non-Adamic Y chromosome created in that instance? How would this relate with that in Biblical times descent was usually only traced paternally through the father (e.g. tribal affiliation transfered from father to child)? Could you please help me understand this?
Thanks in advance. God bless, Dylan.


There's a great answer for this Nick ... it was a miracle. I have met Professor Haught, also, and he's an evolutionist, so he's teaching un-Biblical doctrine all over the place anyway! He's a religion prof, but does not believe in the Virgin Birth nor in Creation, nor does he believe in miracles then. Well he teaches at a Catholic University. Not all Cath's are evo's though ... check out The Colby Center for cath studies in creation.
Well, here's a quote by Haught. I met him and he was a gentleman (unlike many evo's). But he is definitely a false teacher ... so sad. He went out of his way to be cordial to me at the Theistic Evo conference at Ohio State, when I attended it. DrJ

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