News 13 straight male children
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Either they're part of the "God wants us to have as many babies as possible before we drop dead from exhaustion" movement, or they just kept trying for a girl, and trying, and trying, and trying...
BTW, your thread title makes it sound like all those kids are heterosexual, which, as we know, is statistically unlikely. (Someone should tell the Duggars.)
Well, at least they can save on clothing since they won't need any for a girl. But after having all those kids, I’m sure the hand-me-downs are a little threadbare, and they’ll still have to buy some new clothing, eventually.
BTW, your thread title makes it sound like all those kids are heterosexual, which, as we know, is statistically unlikely. (Someone should tell the Duggars.)
Well, at least they can save on clothing since they won't need any for a girl. But after having all those kids, I’m sure the hand-me-downs are a little threadbare, and they’ll still have to buy some new clothing, eventually.
Blobbenstein
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Y sperm! The sperm has an X or an Y chromosome, and the egg provides the other chromosome in the pair which is always an X chromosome.
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maybe an egg wants to be female sometime, but the only sperm available are male(Y). Perhaps these people become transsexuals....
Yep. As I understand it, the sperm's genes determine the gender of the child. I think I read that there are rare cases where someone has three sex chromosomes instead of XX or XY, but I'm not sure how that works...
kibbleforlola
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It's actually not that rare. About one in 1500 babies is born not xx or xy. If you include the number of intersex people that do have xx or xy chromosomes but have otherwise ambiguous genetailia, the number is I want to say about one in a thousand. This can include xxy individuals, xo individuals, individuals that are chromosomaly xy but have external female genetailia, people with ovotesties, people with ambiguous genetailia, and many more combinations. When you consider the numbers of babies born over all, that's a lot of people. Humans, we're a diverse bunch!
Also, you confused gender with sex.
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I don't think an egg "wants" anything.
The development of the brain is probably the stage at which things like being transgender are decided.
Blobbenstein
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What is matter anyway? Just an information system. How do you know that atoms etc are the only structures within that system?
I'm pretty sure that gamete cells have a non-atom-based component...a spiritual chip off the old block. A physical brain may not be needed. If you have any belief in ghosts, then that is the same thing; no physical body at all, in those cases.
FortyTwo
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I don't. Neither can any instrument detect such a thing, to anyone's knowledge. Until someone proves that an inanimate, or even non-sentient animate, clump of matter has a spiritual component to it, that can't be assumed nor can the true nature of it be speculated on in any meaningful way.
No one can say that what you're describing doesn't exist, but no one can say it does, either.
Blobbenstein
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it just seems to me that materialists get bogged down in the atom paradigm.
We already have dark matter as a mystery....what is it, and what other kinds of 'matter' are possible? Maybe atoms is only one information system out of millions that are possible.
Ghosts don't really seem strange to me; their existence seem quite logical.
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What implies the existence of ghosts though?
That's how logic works. Something has to give you reason to conclude that ghosts would exist, or you can't make a legitimate argument.
You can't just say, "well, there are things we don't understand, so X thing must be real because if it were real we probably wouldn't understand it." That's fallacious.
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I've seen enough things in this life to see that ghosts are quite possible. Might have even seen a few.
I said they were 'logical' anyway, not 'real'. But I do think they probably are real.
