[UA] Immaculate Concept

[Bruce MacMonkey McSpade]

>Subject: Re: [UA] Immaculate Concept
>
> >Last night over dinner some friends and I were discussing the Immaculate 
>Conception.  I don't know why either.  But someone mentioned that it is in 
>fact scientifically possible, though highly unlikely, to have a immaculate 
>conception.  It requires three very specific genetic coincidences, which in 
>turn require something like 50 to be in order, including a particular kind 
>of hermaphroditism, but again, it is possible.  So unlikely, however, that 
>one would expect it could happen perhaps once in the course of human 
>history.
>
>
>Neato.
>
>However, what you're talking about is the Virgin Birth, or the conception 
>that preceded it.
>
>The Immaculate Conception is the conception of Mary herself, which was 
>special (in Catholic doctrine) because she was preserved in advance from 
>original sin, "in view of the merits of her Son." Biologically, it was 
>nothing unusual; we may presume Sts. Joachim and Anne participated in the 
>standard fashion.
>
Also, her virginity was restored after this miraculous event.  So, in 
essence nothing happened.  Now that is a miracle. HA HA HA.

MacMonkey

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