Soul enters body ?

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Message: 5 Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:53:43 -0400

 

David Bozzi <david.bozzi: Re: Soul enters body?

>BTW, most of you probably knew, but we all >started out female for the first

>50 days.David(off to Bio class)

 

This is not quite right.

 

Gender is determined by the sex chromosomes,

but they do not come into full "activation"

until relatively late in embryonic development

(and can be messed up a number of ways).

 

All embryos start out as indeterminate gender,

having at one point the "tubes" necessary to develop the genitalia of both

sexes.

 

Under genetic, ontogenetic and hormonal influence

from the sex chromosomes, the male complement

of tubes are absorbed / destroyed in the XX

individual (leading to what is known as a female)

and the female complement of tubes

are absorbed / destroyed in the XY individual

(leading to a male).

 

We all have small and very well hidden vestiges of

the opposite gender's primary sex characteristics

and these vestiges can sometimes become inflamed,

cancerous or not entirely destroyed so as to cause

physical problems later in life.

 

This is known from embryology 101.

 

If anyone really wants to know the names of the

primary sex characteristics and the full

information of exactly what tissue of the embryo

is developed into the primary sex char. I refer

you to "Developmental Biology" by Scott F.

Gilbert or "Principles of Development" by

Lewis Wolpert et al.

 

Sadly, none of these authorities in the field of

animal development and embryology dare suggest

a timepoint when the "soulenters" the body.

 

I will venture it may be the time prior to and

of the first cell division ?

 

Even Sri Ramana Maharshi deemed the development

of a single cell to a adult individual as nothing

short of "a miracle".

 

Best regards,

 

Amanda.