Dennis Prager talks with Scott, who studies mosquitoes, about why God created them. Scott argues that before the Fall, mosquitoes didn't need blood to reproduce, citing 40 species that can lay eggs without it. Prager pushes back, saying this explanation just moves the question rather than answering it.
All right, Scott, you're on the spot. Go ahead.
Okay, right, yeah, and I've studied mosquitoes for about 30 years.
Are you an entomologist?
So in Genesis chapter 3, uh, starting in verse 17, uh, you know, the Lord is describing the changes that will come over the earth because of, you know, Adam and Eve choosing to let evil in. And, and one of the things it says is that thorns will grow up, you know, and so basically, you know, there are biological changes that have happened, and so probably the mosquito did not originally suck blood, and in fact, we know of 40 different species of mosquitoes that don't have to suck blood in order to lay eggs.
Right, so how does that answer why is there a mosquito? The mosquito that—
the Anopheles. The mosquito originally did not actually suck blood. Oh, but so it didn't originally and did live on blood, or—
right, but did after, after the expulsion from Eden, did, right?
Right. Yeah.
Yeah. All right, so that's the theological belief answer, and I respect it, but it's— it really just moves the question up one more. So You see, if everything is a result, and everything might be a result to a believer, of the original sin, if you will, but it's, then there's no, it's almost like then there's no questions to be explained. If everything has that one explanation, then there are no questions, and maybe for some there aren't. I'm a believer, but I have questions. Okay, I thank you for your call. Uh, let's go to Long Beach, California, and Oscar. Hello, Oscar.
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