just me wrote:Actually, for optimal reproduction more Adams and Eves would be the route to go.
Women who have their own mate have more offspring than women who share a mate.
CFR.
Not doubting you. Just curious for the source in case I ever try to make that argument.
Hey Ludd. For some reason I have failed to bookmark the article I read on this. I believe I may have read two since I keep having to look it up for people. I will try to find it again, but I just used a google search to find it originally.
One only has to look as far as Brigham Young for an example. Many of his plural wives had zero children by him or just one or two. He had 55 wives. Sixteen bore him children. He had 56 biological children. Most of his kids belonged to his first two wives (when he wasn't a poly).
During that same era I have several relatives who were LDS and monogamous who had 10-14 kids.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
harmony wrote:The best reason to watch the film was the Devil.
Yeah, this dude was also the best Lucifer, by far:
I'd eat whatever he handed me.
I also root for the Phantom...
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
just me wrote:Actually, for optimal reproduction more Adams and Eves would be the route to go.
Women who have their own mate have more offspring than women who share a mate.
CFR.
Not doubting you. Just curious for the source in case I ever try to make that argument.
It's simple. A woman is only fertile during part of her menstrual cycle. If she's monogamous, she'll have access to her husband's sperm during 100% of her fertile times. If she's polygamous and her husband has, say, 10 wives, then she'll have access to his sperm during only 10% of her fertile times.
As to your question regarding why children with more ancestors have a better chance of survival, well, it's a proven fact that a greater variety of genes provide access to dominant ones that will mask deleterious recessive genes. This is the reason why we don't allow brothers and sisters to marry each other. . . too great of a chance for genetic diseases to occur in their offspring.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
just me wrote:They both seemed like stepford people (along with Adam). Absolutely no personality, very robot-like. Blond Eve was the worst.
You should've seen the old films. The new actors look like the Royal Shakespeare Company in comparison.
But Gordon Jump of WKRP in Cincinnati was in the old film. (Oh, did I just make your point for you?) Also, Lucifer had a beard. Mormons aren't scared enough of my beard these days. Except the old Mormons who remember the pre-1990 version. I liked the gay piano-playing Lucifer; the Lucifer with the perm always looked funny wen he took a bit of the fruit.
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Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
bcspace wrote:Well, there was, according to some traditions, Lilith. She was disobedient and became a demon so Adam had to order another wife, Eve.
If memory serves, Lilith came into existence when Jewish exegetes noticed the double creation account in the first two chapters of Genesis.
If there are two accounts of the creation of Adam's wife, what happened to the first? And what was her name? She didn't last long so she must have done something bad.
Answering these kinds of questions is what people did before TV.
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You prove yourself of the devil and anti-mormon every word you utter, because only the devil perverts facts to make their case.--ldsfaqs (6-24-13)
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"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
