Lois?

[u/WithSkelly]

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[u/SenatorCrabHat → u/[deleted]]

As a dad myself, dudes who willingly deny themselves being in the presence of the miracle of childbirth let alone being there for the entirety of what comes after baffles me.

[u/Gibodean → u/SenatorCrabHat]

Dude, it's not a miracle.

It happens every day to every species of mammal.

It's not beautiful - it's a painful, gore and poo-fest that can kill both of them.

I don't know what the hell happened during the birth of your kids, but being on hallucinogens like it seems you were is probably a very wise move.

[u/SenatorCrabHat → u/Gibodean]

Considering that:

• The human Genome has roughly 3.2 billion of base pairs, and 46 chromosomes need to split and reform to create the 23 pairs, half based on the father, half on the mother.
• That through this process of billions of duplication, happening billions of times, a child will only really receive ~60 mutations
• That between 10%-20% of pregnancies result in miscarriage
• That 40-50% of fertilized ova fail to implant

Yeah, childbirth is pretty miraculous. So much can go so wrong along the way. Also, if you've ever known anyone who has had trouble conceiving, you might think differently too.

I'd say by your reckoning, life itself is pretty much a miracle, and I think I'd agree.

[u/Gibodean → u/SenatorCrabHat]

Any outcome of a sequences of random steps is therefore a miracle. Like where a particular piece of sand lies on the earth.

It's nice you think in that way - it's better than the way I think. I don't want to dissuade you from it, just because it's wrong :)