And now, I take my leave and bow out of the thread. I began earnestly in conversation specifically with @Wrangler in response to his OP and stated effort. Now, I find that start to be a little disingenuous. Like many here, he starts with a question they don't really want answered or even explored, what they want is to expound their own opinions and perspectives-- which is fine, by the way. They should just say that, and not pretend to be launching an honest inquiry.
A bridge-builder who sets aflame before he makes it across, the proposal he offers is to say to the Jews-- I understand how you feel-- you're just wrong.
That's a fine bridge. Maybe you could sell it to someone, just not the Jews. In the past, people had very little understanding of genetics, and their genealogy was limited to a recording of who begat whom. Believers today have no such escape hatch. We do understand how biology works and how genes (DNA) get passed down through descendants from parents (two of them) to their fruit (offspring). We have no excuse to feign ignorance.
I'll take up the topic in a separate (unorthodox) thread if anyone is interested and leave this one in peace.
A bridge-builder who sets aflame before he makes it across, the proposal he offers is to say to the Jews-- I understand how you feel-- you're just wrong.
That's a fine bridge. Maybe you could sell it to someone, just not the Jews. In the past, people had very little understanding of genetics, and their genealogy was limited to a recording of who begat whom. Believers today have no such escape hatch. We do understand how biology works and how genes (DNA) get passed down through descendants from parents (two of them) to their fruit (offspring). We have no excuse to feign ignorance.
I'll take up the topic in a separate (unorthodox) thread if anyone is interested and leave this one in peace.