Sunday, February 14, 2021

Creation Moment 2/15/2021 - Reason for Reproduction of Offspring

 One of the Creator's many reasons for reproduction of offspring is to bring out the genetic diversity He built into the Creation---the blooming Rose of Creation of different shapes, sizes and colors.
When understood this way---it shouldn't be puzzling to "scientists".

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, 
Be fruitful, and multiply..
Genesis 9:1
 
"The downsides of relying on sex to reproduce are undeniable: It takes two individuals, each of whom gets to pass on only part of their genome. 
Because these individuals generally have to get fairly intimate, they make themselves vulnerable to physical harm or infections from their partner. Asexual reproduction, or self-cloning, has none of these disadvantages. Clones can be made anywhere and anytime, and they receive the full complement of an individual’s genes.

Yet despite all its benefits, asexual reproduction is the exception, not the norm, among organisms that have compartmentalized cells (eukaryotes). 

In plants, for example — which are somewhat known for their genetic flexibility — less than 1% of species are thought to reproduce asexually often. Among animals, only one out of every thousand known species is exclusively asexual. For centuries, biologists have pondered this apparent paradox.......the purpose of sex is simple: It increases genetic diversity in the pool of offspring.... the geneticist Hermann Muller, ..believed he had the answer. “Genetics has finally solved the age-old problem of the reason for the existence (i.e., the function) of sexuality and sex,” he boasted." Quanta