Dr Peterson-Question Regarding D&C 132, Celestial Marria

Post by **_beastie** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:37 pm

You all are forgetting that male infants have a slightly higher mortality rate than female infants. Multiply this advantage over many thousands of years, and that is proof that males will far outnumber females in the CK, even if females are more faithful in this life.

I once sat down and used the statistics to try and figure out how many more males than females there would be given this fact, and even factoring some culture's tendency to abort female infants, males still outnumbered females by millions due to the difference in infant mortality.

So my advice to believers who ponder whether or not they could practice plural wifery in the next life: you'd be better off pondering whether or not you can practice plural husbandry in the next life.

Post by **_ajax18** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:48 am

beastie wrote:You all are forgetting that male infants have a slightly higher mortality rate than female infants. Multiply this advantage over many thousands of years, and that is proof that males will far outnumber females in the CK, even if females are more faithful in this life.

I once sat down and used the statistics to try and figure out how many more males than females there would be given this fact, and even factoring some culture's tendency to abort female infants, males still outnumbered females by millions due to the difference in infant mortality.

So my advice to believers who ponder whether or not they could practice plural wifery in the next life: you'd be better off pondering whether or not you can practice plural husbandry in the next life.

There's definitely more men than women when you count it that way. I think even more y chromosomes make it to the egg because they're not as heavy and swim faster. Yet more of these fetuses die or have lethal genetic defects that don't allow them to make it to birth. With only one copy of a alot of essential DNA, XY are more prone to the slightest defects. So yeah, this adds to your point. I wonder what the apologist answer is.

Post by **_beastie** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:23 am

I've discussed this on FAIR in the past, and the apologists' answers were:

1 - china aborts so many female infants it evens out (this is silly, given the many thousands of years more male infants than female infants have been dying)

2 - we don't know for sure that infants who die become GODS, we just know they get into the CK, maybe they stay in a lower kingdom (which I found equally pathetic)