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View Poll Results: Morality question: Would a partly human baby (with some plant DNA) be eligible to receive the sacram
Yes, the baby would be eligible to receive all of the sacraments. 2 25.00%
The baby would be eligible to receive some sacraments, depending on the percentage of human DNA. 1 12.50%
No, only 100% human babies are eligible to receive the sacraments. 2 25.00%
Other answer (please specify below) 3 37.50%
Voters: 8. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-27-2011, 08:30 AM
 
Location: Reston
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This is ridiculous. You realize that humans share 50% of DNA with bananas to start? Is a banana half human?

Maybe yes maybe no, but do you really want someone with corn ears to marry into the family?
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Old 08-27-2011, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Why would a baby have plant DNA in the first place?
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Old 08-27-2011, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Bananas are bananas. Humans are humans.
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Old 08-27-2011, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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Why would a baby have plant DNA in the first place?
That dates back to the first life on earth...Strong evidence for evolution, I'm afraid.
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Old 08-27-2011, 02:26 PM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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So it is. Some see it as evidence of the same manufacturer but it also works well as all originating from the same original DNA. Every bit of developed life.
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Old 08-27-2011, 02:29 PM
 
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Bananas are bananas. Humans are humans.
So that would seem to answer the question. Since we all share some plant fish and hog DNA add in in a bit more won't signify since we can tell a human from a banana. So a baby with plant DNA is really no different from anyone else.
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Old 08-27-2011, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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So that would seem to answer the question. Since we all share some plant fish and hog DNA add in in a bit more won't signify since we can tell a human from a banana. So a baby with plant DNA is really no different from anyone else.
Do you have a plant-baby you'd like to have baptized?
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Old 08-27-2011, 07:04 PM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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Do you have a plant-baby you'd like to have baptized?
Any kid of mine can decide for itself when it want to be baptized rather than anyone imposing it on them.
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Old 08-27-2011, 07:52 PM
 
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It is a bit implausible because the scenario seems to require something blown in the wind impregnating a woman, via undergarments, to make a "corn baby." I just think that seems very unlikely if not weird. It also seems unlikely to me that the "corn baby" would just be like a baby, but with green ears and corn hair or something.

Still the point is a human with some plant DNA aspects and whether they could receive sacraments. I don't really know the answer though. I think they'd need to be mostly human or at least sentient/sapient. (Or capable of maturing into sentience/sapience) I generally think you have to be capable of a relationship with God for the issue to matter. If the child is (I almost said "a vegetable" but that's obviously too pun-oriented) permanently at a state of awareness equivalent to a plant or even a lower animal than it would likely not make sense.
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Old 08-28-2011, 09:08 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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I once read a science-fiction story--the title of which escapes me at the moment--in which turnips had become the dominant species on the planet Earth at some distant point in the future. (Unfortunately, there was no mention in the story of young turnips with some human DNA in the story).
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