Showing posts with label Fertility. Show all posts
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Monday, 14 October 2024

Unintelligent Design Or Sheer Malevolence? - Defective Sperm Puts Mother And Baby At Risk


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Defective sperm doubles the risk of preeclampsia | Lund University

Christian superstition insists that every person conceived is a creation of their omniscient, omnipotent god who knows and has always known, exactly who is going to be born and has an oven-ready plan for their entire existence. Each baby conceived was exactly as the Christian god intended, down to the last detail of the DNA Exactly which sperm fertilizes which egg when, is part of the god's omniscient, perfect plan.

Leaving aside the absurdity of throwing millions of sperms at a single egg to produce that conception, when only a predetermined one was going to be the winner in order to produce the predetermined genome, when a single sperm would have been just as effective, we are left with the disturbing idea that any and all genetic defects were the intended outcome of that conception; the intention of a supposedly omnibenevolent god.

Now, it might, in fact it definitely is possible for a Christian to imagine some ultimate good will come from a child with a genetic defect, but what if a defect in the sperm causes harm not just to the baby, but to the mother? Are we to conclude that a mother whose life is put at risk by a defective sperm from her partner was the intended victim of an 'all-loving' god? What possible good can come from a mother's (and almost invariably her baby's) life being in danger from something beyond her control? What possible good can come from preeclampsia?

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