The Dig - Two Nations - with Stephen Pidgeon, and panelists John Barr, Jessica Knock, and Lisa Marie from Jerusalem. [2.02.31] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCi2CF0-c1w The Ancient Past – what do we know? For many generations, the knowledge of man was restricted to the mythology surrounding that great deluge known in the western world as Noah’s flood.
Yet as the pyramids testified over the desert of Giza, as the Mayan ruins rose over the Yucatan Jungle, and as the articulated archeology of Machu Picchu was discovered in the mountains of Peru, questions emerged that could not be answered with modern understanding, as it appears that a history may have existed prior to the creation of A’dam.
Did that prior history include a catastrophe which mimics the great deluge? Some have proposed an event called the Younger Dryas, an astrological impact event on earth which may have had a great effect an existing civilization – a civilization which predated the well-accepted biblical narrative.
As knowledge increases in these last days, is scripture silent, or worse, ignorant as to these discoveries? I don’t think so. In fact, there are many verses which have remained mysterious to us in our common understanding, but when carefully read, reveal something quite informative.
In 1982, twins who were born with two different skin colors. In 1995, a young woman gave birth to twins, when a DNA test led to the discovery that the twins had different fathers. In 2016, an IVF-implanted surrogate mother gave birth to two children: one genetically unrelated child from an implanted embryo, and a biological child from her and her husband. In 2019, a Chinese woman was reported to have two babies from different fathers, one of whom was her husband and the other was a man having a secret affair with her during the same time. In 2022, a 19-year-old Brazilian gave birth to twins from two different fathers with whom she had sex on the same day.
What is this function that appears naturally in human beings?
Heteropaternal superfecundation – a scientific term which describes the phenomenon of twins being conceived by different fathers. Some may not believe this could be true, but there is vast empirical evidence in the form of living twins of this disposition that such a thing is possible in human conception. The question before us today is whether such a thing ever happened in scripture. Is there any record of such a thing? If so, how did it happen? More importantly, is there a second or third witness to this proposition?
And this is why we dig.
Get out your shovel and join us today on the Dig, with Stephen Pidgeon, and panelists John Barr, Jessica Knock, and a special appearance by Lisa Marie from Jerusalem.