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God is OK with polygamy and people who change their sex.

http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/02/sex-changing-fish-secret-lives-of-bluebanded-gobies/?hpt=hp_c2&buffer_share=b9f11&utm_source=buffer

Bluebanded goby fish, about 2 to 2.5 inches long, are able to change their sex when it suits their position in social hierarchies.

Although natural sex change is exceedingly rare across the animal kingdom, bluebanded gobies are not the only creatures capable of it. Other examples include the clown fish and the limpet snail.

Groups of these fish have a skewed sex ratio in their natural environment. In other words, goby groups are not 50% male and 50% female, as one might expect. Instead, as Grober explained, “Gobies most often live in groups called harems that usually consist of one male and four to five females.”

In a natural setting, if the leading male dies, the most dominant female remaining in the group will take leadership of the harem and then physically change into a male.

Why would the female change her sex? The answer lies in evolutionary biology.

An organism’s evolutionary success depends on the number of genetic copies of itself it leaves behind in the population. So, a male fish, which mates with all of its harem’s females, has much more success in spreading genes than any given female.

For example, a male in a harem of four females has four times more reproductive success than any of his females because each individual female has only the harem’s one male partner with whom to mate.

Just as in humans, in many sex-changing fishes, social context often determines an individual’s behavior.

Hormones also play a role in the sex changes of these fish.

In one experiment, Grober and colleagues set up pairs of female bluebanded gobies, so that one fish was clearly subordinate. When they loaded up the subordinate with a potent male hormone, 11-ketotestosterone, it was able to make her look like a male, but her female-typical social behavior didn’t shift in a male direction. She continued to behave as a female.

“My team successfully demonstrated that while hormones do have a direct effect on the fish’s physical structure (like gonads, genitalia and fins), the fish's behavior answers more to its position in the social hierarchy,” he said.

 

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I guess God just said, "Look, you guys figure it out. I've got better things to do than worry about your mating habits." ;)

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God is perfectly ok with Polygamy marriage.

God even considers himself a Polygamous husband who is married to all of his believers in a marriage.

The Bible is very clear.

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If Jesus was the son of God, how come his father was Joseph?

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Joseph was the man who Mary had planned to marry.

Joseph and Mary were engaged to be married and had not had a sexual relationship before they were married.

But - Mary had a bulging stomach and realized she was pregnant

Mat 1:18 Mary was found with the GASTRO / the stomach FROM “ THE HOLY SPIRIT.

The bible never once says that “ MARY WAS FOUND WITH CHILD “

this terminology, this phrase is nowhere in the bible.

It simply says in Greek that Mary was found having “ A GASTRO “

GASTRO is the Greek word for stomach. This is how the authors always explain in exactly and precisely what was happening and what Mary was experiencing -.

Joseph was not his father and never had sexual relations with Mary until after she had bore her first born son.

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