ArchivedQuestions for ChristiansAbdulluh, I'm making alot of work of these, sorry. they'll keep coming one at a time, but at least you know they are coming. Genesis 31 This is the story of Jacob after he has served his father in law Laban for 14 years, for the right to marry Rachel, after Laban tricked him into marrying her sister Leah first. Jacob now wants to leave Laban and take his family and his flocks and create his own home. .In Genesis 30, we find a rather strange story. Laban, , had promises Jacob that he could have all the striped and speckled goats in his flock. Laban then went on to ensure that this would not happen - he removed all the striped and speckled goats from his flock, and moved them far away. Laban thus had a fairly good understanding of the process of genetic inheritance. Jacob, however, did not. The Bible records that Jacob got hold of some green branches, pulled the bark away in strips, and planted them in front of the troughs where the goats would come to drink. Jacob was here acting under the old Semitic notion that the offspring were influenced by the environment of their parents during conception. The Bible goes on to record that this is exactly what happened: Genesis 30:37-39 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Obviously, this is impossible by all the laws of genetics, as we understand them today. The genetic makeup of the embryo, we now know, is determined entirely by the genes selected at random during conception - the environment has absolutely nothing to do with the process. . something that is very important, as he has told Laban that Laban could consider that any unspotted offspring born amongst Jacobs flocks, Laban could consider stolen. Using this technique, Jacob's flocks grow stronger and bigger and no unspeckled offspring are born. Jacob credits this to God taking from Laban and giving to Jacob. then in verse 10, the angel tells Jacob how it was really done, it had nothing to do with the sticks at all. "In the breeding season, I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were speckled, streaked or spotted. The angel of God said to me in the dream "Jacob?" I answered, "Here I am." And he said "Look up and see that all the male goats are streaked, speckled or spotted." God had taught something to Jacob that was not going to be understood by scientists for many more thousands of years.. that God has ordained in the genetic makeup of all living things, genes for dominant and recessive characteristics. So, you see, the Bible taught science before it was understood by modern science. |
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