Disrespect For Nature Is Disrespect For Human Beings
By DONALD DeMARCO
It is a grave mistake to think that science can disrespect human nature without producing adverse effects. Science can only succeed when it works with nature, not against it. Marcus Tullius Cicero understood this and offered his wisdom to posterity. “We ought,” he wrote, “indeed, to act in such a way as shall be in no respect repugnant to our common human nature; yet, holding this sacred, let us follow our individual nature, so that, if there are other pursuits in themselves more important and excellent, we yet may measure our own pursuits by the standard of our own nature.”
Today, people are thinking and acting as if neither maleness nor femaleness are natural and inherent aspects of their being. Some claim that there are as many as 75 different sexes. Only a few years ago, such attitudes were relatively unknown. There is, however, a steep price to pay when the laws of nature are disrespected. Nature is a guide that we should not ignore.
One of the many wonders of nature is our immune system, which equips us with 100 billion immunological receptors. Each of these tiny receptors has the natural capacity to distinguish the self from the non-self.
Consequently, they are able to immunize or protect our bodies against the invasion of alien substances that could be harmful to us. The immune system is a wonder that is most worthy of respect.
From a strict immunological perspective, however, the woman’s body would reject the man’s oncoming semen, recognizing it as a foreign substance. If this occurred, fertilization would be impossible, and the human race would have come to a conclusion with Adam and Eve. But it is exactly at this point that nature manifests its God-given wisdom.
Traveling alongside of the sperm in the male’s seminal fluid is a mild immunosuppressant which is a signal to the woman’s body that allows her to accept the sperm as part of her self. Here is a deeper understanding of the “two-in-one-flesh” intimacy that is stated in Genesis.
The image cited in Genesis is not merely a poetic flourish, but refers to a true physiological intimacy, one that could not have been known prior to the discovery made by that particular branch of science. This form of intimacy is possible only between man and woman, and not between man and man or woman and woman. It offers a natural basis for declaring that same-sex relationships and those of a marital nature are not equal.
Nature makes no concessions to political correctness or fashionable ideologies. It cannot be other than what it is. In this regard, it is fully deserving of respect. It is a source of stability, not something that can be changed to suit a whim. To quote Cicero once again, “Custom will never conquer nature; in fact nature will always conquer her” (numquam naturam mos vinceret; est enim ea semper invicta).
What happens, we might ask, when the male semen is deposited in the area of the rectum? Because the sperm has the natural ability to penetrate the woman’s egg, it is also able to penetrate whatever body cell it might encounter. This fusing of the sperm with a somatic cell does not produce a zygote, the first stage of a human being, but can and does result in various malignancies, some of which can be cancerous. This fact has been documented in numerous scientific journals.
When the immunosuppressant enters the “wrong place” (if we are sensitive to language here), it forms what is called an “immunosuppressant environment” in which the immune system fails to perform its natural function of rejecting foreign substances, but welcomes them, so to speak. In this instance spermatozoa-induced tumors and other pathologies may be formed. Again, there is an abundance of documentation to be found in medical literature.
To act without first understanding how nature operates invites tragedy. What science can teach us about nature should be taught with respect for nature’s wisdom. Regrettably, what is going on in the classroom, quite often these days, is the very opposite. Students are indoctrinated according to an ideology that is not compatible with nature and will inevitably have negative and harmful results. Nature is remorseless.
The human will is an essential human faculty. Without it, we have no freedom. Nonetheless, the will, in order to enjoy its liberty, must conform to nature, not oppose it. Certain groups that promote sexual activity with a reckless disregard for nature have received strong encouragement from the courts, from business, from universities, and from professional sports, especially from Major League Baseball. Canada has issued a postage stamp honoring the “equality” between traditional marriage and that of the same-sex variety. Politics has created a sizable separation between itself and nature. Many people are trying to live a fantasy. And they can be quite vindictive when they are challenged.
The existence and function of the mild immunosuppressant in the male semen is little known. Nevertheless, it should be better known because it serves as a critical source of scientific information that sheds important light on the ineradicable differences between the sexes as well as the dignity of heterosexual marriage. Nature is congenial o heterosexual procreativity.
Immunology, on a scientific level, both corroborates and deepens the notion of two-in-one-flesh intimacy, on a theological level. This fortuitous correlation is yet another example of the compatibility between faith and reason.