wedrifid comments on The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 27 December 2010 05:23:22AM 2 points [-]

1- To be fair, some... features might look different if Mary hadn't actually been penetrated.

That's a good point. If it was not Joseph who knocked her up you would expect he would ask for some evidence of that kind. Even though the test of virginity he had available is vulnerable to some false negatives it is the best he had.

Comment author: christopherj 06 December 2013 11:05:05PM 0 points [-]

Though it is quite common for the hymen test for virginity to give false negatives, I've also heard that it could give false positives. Maybe Joseph did check! There was also a much more interesting test that Joseph could have done.