Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor

crudmonkey writes "Researchers have discovered a biological shocker: female boa constrictors are capable of giving birth asexually. But the surprise doesn't end there. The study in Biology Letters found that boa babies produced through this asexual reproduction — also known as parthenogenesis — sport a chromosomal oddity that researchers thought was impossible in reptiles. While researchers admit that the female in the study may have been a genetic freak, they say the findings should press researchers to re-think reptile reproduction. Virgin birth among reptiles, especially primitive ones like boas, they argue may be far commoner than ever expected."

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[justinlee37]

WOOHOO FIRST

Re:Immaculate Conception?

[drinkypoo]

It's all crap anyway because at the time it was fairly standard practice for children born out of wedlock was to claim that they are the children of a God. There was a whole societal mechanism for this centered around certain temples.

According to the modern bible the conception was immaculate at least in part because there was no sex and thus no sinfulness. But saying that there was no father is a well-established way of saying you don't know who the father is. Jesus was a bastard (as per the fucking book, but only if you read it in the sense of the times) and not a literal child of God. He only claims his godhead in the works of Paul.

Re:Immaculate Conception doesn't mean virgin birth

[PRMan]

This must be the first time anyone has ever misinterpreted content from the Bible.

On Slashdot? Nonsense, it happens all the time.