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Old 01-17-2008, 06:13 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Genesis is Backwards: Eve and Adam

I was in a talk today with a scientist who was giving a more layperson directed discussion of the genetic/neuronal basis of obesity, sexual preference, and monogamy.

While talking about sexual preference, he described in mice (and humans) about how every creature is prototypically female and that it requires the intervention of the Y chromosome to produce testes which then produce testosterone which drives all male specific phenotypes. Without that intervention, all of us would be female (the prototypic human out of which all are generated).

He then mentioned that it was the exact opposite of genesis. I laughed out loud. Thought it was a neat paradigm shift and food for thought in face of the male structured christian/hebrew religion.
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