Clouseau

So which pregnant teenager has used that excuse?

GenesisNemesis

What excuse? I thought you'd be open-minded on this, Clouseau, or at least that my Materialistic Brain-Washing Technique™ would do the trick.

Clouseau

"I haven't had sex, Dad, honest. It's parthenogenesis, like those greenfly you get on the roses."

GenesisNemesis

There's a non-sequiter if I ever saw one.

Of course, virgin birth would need some tough explaining for a bronze-age teenage girl. I guess the only thing that we must accept is God did it!

Clouseau

Surely you can follow your own argument.

So it's the usual modern excuse, is it? I know I'm getting on a bit, but times do seem to have changed!

GenesisNemesis

I wasn't arguing that Mary gave birth to Jesus naturally via parthenogenesis. That would be stupid. I was arguing what God should've done to make it more likely, and thus more believable. But I guess God holds onto all that is unlikely, no? How do the reported unlikely events in the Bible make the Bible more believable?

Again, I guess the only thing we must accept is that God did it! By what reasoning, Clouseau, have you come to this?

Clouseau

Indeed.

GenesisNemesis

The supernatural cannot happen- or at least it is astronomically unlikely- due to the uniformity of natural laws.

Then by what sense do they go by?

Anyways, I didn't see this post, so sorry about the very late response.

Clouseau

Natural law obviously cannot apply to the supernatural, or it would not be supernatural- we do know what the word means here, do we? One cannot say that, because natural laws generally apply, they must always do so. It may be that natural laws exist partly in order to point out the supernatural. The whole purpose of the locally supernatural could be to draw attention to the existence of the universally supernatural. To exclude its possibility is surely to take a closed-minded attitude.

Clouseau

I don't think you will find many here, so jump off that bedecked horse.