Re: christian schools and doctrinal issues (was: Death penalty)

>Sounds like you're talking about genetics, the code in the DNA.  I was talking 
>about the actual physical *stuff*, the nourishment as you call it. The egg and 
>the sperm are pretty small -- microscopic, even -- so in order for that egg and 
>sperm to grow into anything resembling a baby, much less an adult, the zygote 
>needs to acquire lots and lots of biological *stuff*. (Incidentally, I believe 
>this is why Mormons believe that life begins at implantation, rather than 
>conception: merely having the genetic code from the two parents does not make a 
>baby, I guess, in their view.)<

I wasn't really talking about DNA, but the sperm and egg are material, albeit 
very small.  Also most women gain weight during pregnancy over and above the 
weight of the baby.  So you could say that the child *add* flesh to its mother. 
Although I wouldn't stand to close to her when you said it.  


I wasn't sure if you were meaning "flesh" in a literal or figurative sense so I 
was just exploring that a bit.  Carrying a child certainly exacts a toll on the 
mother but FWIW I think pregnant woman are beautiful.  There is something to be 
said for the "glow".  

  

>(I remember reading about this when I read the book that A Cry in the Dark was 
>based on; the blood left after the dingo took the baby was part of the evidence 
>that people were pointing to).<

Is that the book the Meryl Streep, "The Dingo Ate My Baby" movie is based 
on?  I'm no expert on fetal vs mother blood, although obviously subtances 
are passed from the mother's blood to the baby resulting in such things as Fetal 
Alcohol Syndrome and drug addicted newborns.  I'm just not sure on whether they 
actually share the same blood.  I'll have to look it up.  



>Well, if he was an elderly widower (as most Orthodox believe), then he had 
>already "had some" and his interest in Mary needn't have been sexual.<

I've heard that theory too.  Does it account for an elderly widower being up to 
the trip to Egyyt for the Census or the tradidion that Jesus was a carpenter 
learning the trade from Joseph?  I don't think of an elderly widower being much 
into either.  It does fit with Joseph basically disappearing from the text at a 
relatively young age for Jesus.  You would think he would have been mentioned 
later one though whether he had died or not, even just noting his death if that 
is what happened.  


Mike F.  

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