Re: Why don't you just marry your sister, then?

Post #143,706 by Nightowl 2/27/04 3:32:16 PM 2/27/04 3:34:43 PM Reply	Re: Why don't you just marry your sister, then? I think the biggest problem with interfamily marriage is the gene pool, something about things that can be passed to one another like illnesses, diseases or genetic defects and cause the child to have a chance of being born worse off. I'm not sure if that is the whole reason it's not allowed, but I know it's one of them. Edit: As an afterthought though, what strikes me as funny, is in the beginning, brothers and sisters obviously HAD to marry one another, because there weren't any other people. I mean, how did those people after Cain and Abel marry anyone if they were originally produced by Adam and Eve? There weren't more people. Nightowl >8# "To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are." Eric Hoffer Edited by Nightowl Feb. 27, 2004, 03:33:24 PM EST Re: Why don't you just marry your sister, then? I think the biggest problem with interfamily marriage is the gene pool, something about things that can be passed to one another like illnesses, diseases or genetic defects and cause the child to have a chance of being born worse off. I'm not sure if that is the whole reason it's not allowed, but I know it's one of them. Nightowl >8# "To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are." Eric Hoffer Edited by Nightowl Feb. 27, 2004, 03:34:43 PM EST Expand All History \| Collapse All History
Post #143,708 by tuberculosis 2/27/04 3:47:02 PM Reply	Fairy tale land [i]As an afterthought though, what strikes me as funny, is in the beginning, brothers and sisters obviously HAD to marry one another, because there weren't any other people. I mean, how did those people after Cain and Abel marry anyone if they were originally produced by Adam and Eve? There weren't more people.[/i] You're in fairy tale land there. Adam and Eve didn't have any daughters - at least that were mentioned in the Grimmest Storybook. Exodus is totally inconsistent there. Why did God put his mark on Cain to protect him from the wrath of other men? What other men? Stupid inconsistent blather. More likely scenario: In the beginning, monkeys flew out of God's butt. The tree of research must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of bean counters. -- Alan Kay
Post #143,711 by danreck 2/27/04 3:55:23 PM Reply	Ummm.... You write: Re: Why don't you just marry your sister, then? I think the biggest problem with interfamily marriage is the gene pool, something about things that can be passed to one another like illnesses, diseases or genetic defects and cause the child to have a chance of being born worse off. And with same sex marriages the odds of concieving children with birth defects is lessened... Okay, that's a fact. Just a few thoughts, Danno

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