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Gospel of Thomas 22:4: "When you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female...then you will enter [the kingdom]."

It seems to me that you could use this bible quote to justify some pretty nasty DNA work. Actually, and I think that I've mentioned this before, if I were involved in genetics research, I would be very interested in combining the DNA from two women so that lesbian couples could have children. I would also be interested in the same thing for men, but it would be much more difficult because of the Y-chromosome. Men have certain genetic weaknesses (such as a propensity for hemophilia and color blindness) that is complimented by a woman's genes. Actually, now that I think of it, I guess you should be able to get enough information from the X-chromosome belonging to each man.

And now I am totally fixated on genealogical DNA testing. I really can't get enough of it!

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