Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 5
The Sonship of Jesus Christ 5 So how was Christ as born? We understand that research on the subject of single mother birth without the participation of a male is being carried out in many advanced countries of the world. But so far human knowledge is only at a stage where scientific re- search has not yet advanced to such a level where positive irrefu- table evidence of virgin births in human beings can be produced. However, all sorts of possibilities remain open. At lower orders of life two phenomena are scientifically well established: Hermaphroditism and Parthenogenesis. As such, the miraculous birth of Jesus as to Mary as can be understood to belong to some similar natural but very rare phenomenon, the peripheries of which are not yet fully fathomed by man. Here follow brief descriptions of the phenomena of Hermaph- roditism and Parthenogenesis. Readers interested in a more scientific treatment of the subject matter, based upon current understanding, may refer to Appendix II. Hermaphroditism Hermaphroditism exists when organs of both sexes are present within a single female and the chromosomes show both male and female characters aligned side by side. Laboratory tests have revealed cases such as that of a hermaphrodite rabbit which, at one stage, served several females and sired more than 250 young of both sexes, while at another stage, it became pregnant in isolation and gave birth to seven healthy young of both sexes. When autopsied, it, while in a pregnant condition, showed two func-