Hi Jane,
-=> On 14 Dec 97  10:37:00 Jane Kelley said to Mark Probert <=-
 JK> What I have observed is that when humans cling to something for a long
 JK> period of time, a belief that is, it is either a part of several
 JK> religions such as is the virgin birth, or that there is some truth in
 JK> it such as that about Laetrile.
 JK> One makes as much sense as the other one does.  No male child can be
 JK> the result of a virgin birth.  There has to be a male parent.  There
 JK> have been female children born that are supposedly from virgin births,
 JK> not male.
I was always taught that the 'Virgin Birth' is a result of mis 
translation. 'Virgin' in those days had a meaning  more like 
'teenager' than today's interpretation (the word teenager is a recent
invention). 
Andrew
... Multitasking - screwing up several things at once.
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