by brotherdan 56 Replies latest watchtower bible
You simply cannot have, for example, great white sharks eating straw.
Of course not! They'll eat algae, not straw!
No doubt the Great White's big, razor sharp teeth will prove to be ideal for ripping apart the flesh, uh, of the algae... and, um... killing it... quickly and, er, efficiently...
It's an ecological disaster.
Here is an excellent post by TD related to the subject.
Has the society ever tried to defend it's position with this? Besides the silly reason that lions and tigers have sharp teeth and claws because they used to tear open coconuts?
I always wondered this, too. Makes NO SENSE. Either way you look at it something will be killed. A lion will still eat animals -OR- lions will be eating humans because it's pissed off after someone told the lion that it's going to be eating straw for the rest of its life.
Either way the lion will be eating meat.
There will likely be a reconditioning of the biologic and genetic makeup of humans and animals. There are broken genes in humans and animals that could contribute to nutrition if they were functional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudogene
Pseudogenes are dysfunctional relatives of known genes that have lost their protein-coding ability or are otherwise no longer expressed in the cell. Although some do not have introns or promoters (these pseudogenes are copied from mRNA and incorporated into the chromosome and are called processed pseudogenes), most have some gene-like features (such as promoters, CpG islands, and splice sites), they are nonetheless considered nonfunctional, due to their lack of protein-coding ability resulting from various genetic disablements (stop codons, frameshifts, or a lack of transcription) or their inability to encode RNA (such as with rRNA pseudogenes). Thus the term, coined in 1977 by Jacq, et al., is composed of the prefix pseudo, which means false, and the root gene, which is the central unit of molecular genetics.
The L-gulano-γ-lactone oxidase gene, the gene required for Vitamin C synthesis, was found in humans and guinea pigs. It exists as a pseudogene, present but incapable of functioning. In fact, since this was originally written the vitamin C pseudogene has been found in other primates.
So I guess evolution will LIKELY kick in and these genes will begin working and begin functionality... Is that right Alice? So a genetic mutation will occur causing these genes to develop protein to supplement all the animals dietary needs?
Has the society ever tried to defend it's position with this?
Yes. The Awake! of October 8, 1982 was the most thorough treatment of the subject ever published by the JW's. It was so bad, it's hard not to feel sorry for them.
Whenever this subject comes up, JW writers almost always seem to forget that predators aren't the only animals that consume flesh. The decomposition chain is an integral part of every earthly habitat and that chain starts with the disposal of dead bodies by animal scavengers
"There will likely be"...
or NOT likely! My argument is as strong as yours.
Try again, please....
Has any study been made to see if this is even a possible senario?
There is a talking snake in Genesis. IF this is possible, tame animals would be easy, IMHO.
