Humans have been living and reproducing on this Earth for ages and ages.
But none of that would have been possible if it weren’t for the female egg and the male sperm
Coming together to allow the human population to carry on and flourish.
It’s a well-known fact that, without the female egg and the male sperm coming together
Life would be impossible.
Only with both will a baby be created.
This is the gift of human life,
One of the most precious and miraculous gifts bestowed on mankind.
But though we have been procreating and reproducing for eons
Science has only recently begun to understand this complex process.
Then back to the movies that depicted the olden days
A queen is pregnant and give birth to a baby girl
When it is a male heir that is required
uh-oh then she's promptly blamed
for the baby's gender by her husband and his family
well guess what! according to basic genetics
The king and his family are all fools
If they must blame someone for the gender of their newly arrived bundle of joy and diapers
Or nappies if you're British
Then it is the king they should blame
As we now know that it is the male sperm that determines the sex of the baby
But, this important and interesting question about creation was only answered relatively recently
Who, or what, determines the gender (sex) of a baby?
Is it the egg, or the sperm? Is it a combination of the two?
Scientists and scholars argued about this for ages
Before determining the truth
Namely, that the sperm, which carries either an X or Y chromosome
Is what determines a baby’s gender
Since all female eggs are the same, and carry only the X chromosome.
Thus, when a man’s sperm carries the X chromosome
You will have XX and a baby girl.
But when a man’s sperm carries the Y chromosome,
You get XY and a baby boy is the result.
Of course, today, this is common knowledge among the scientific community.
But that wasn’t always the case as many poor queens will tell you
The first indication that sex chromosomes were distinct from other chromosomes
Came from experiments conducted by German biologist Hermann henking
In 1891
While using a light microscope to study sperm formation in wasps
henking noticed that some wasps sperm cells had 12 chromosomes
while others had only 11 chromosomes
Also during observation of the stages of meiosis
Leading up to the formation of these sperm cells
henking notice that the mysterious twelfth chromosome looked
And behaved differently than the other eleven chromosomes
Accordingly he named the twelfth chromosome
The X element to represent its unknown nature
Interestingly when henking used a light microscope
To study egg formation in female grasshoppers
He was unable to spot the X element
Based on his observations Henking hypothesized at this extra chromosome
The X element must play some role in determining the sex of insects
However he was unable to gather any direct evidence to support his hypothesis
More than a decade after Henkings work in 1905
Nettie stevens surveyed multiple beetle species
And examined the inheritance patterns of their chromosomes
In 1905 while studying the gametes of beetles
Stevens noted an unusual lurking pair of chromosomes
That separated to form sperm cells in the male beetles
Based on her comparisons of chromosome appearance
In cells from male and female beetles
Stevens proposed that these accessory chromosomes were related to the inheritance of sex or gender
That very same year 1905 was a big year for genetics
Edmund Beecher Wilson made the same discovery as Nattie Stevens
Completely independently of each other
So both Edmund Beecher, Wilson and Nettie stevens
Are credited with discovering the chromosomal XY sex determination system
The fact that males have XY sex chromosomes
And females have XX sex chromosomes
So this information in the grand scheme of things is considered to be a relatively recent discovery
However the incredible and almost unbelievable part is this
The Holy Quran 1400 years ago and where the mazing accuracy
Stated that the sex of human babies is determined by the sperm
This ancient book not only outlines the specific sequence of events that lead to creation
But it also states with a hundred percent accuracy
That the sperm are the sex determining factor
God says in the Holy Quran
(He has created both sexes male and female
From a watery bit of the semen which has been ejected
The term watery bit of semen in verse above
Is referring to the sperm component of semen
Now they've been some who said that the ancient Egyptians predicted how the creation process worked
Even before the holy quran was sent down
While this may be true but most likely is a miss
Ancient egyptian wasn't translated until the last century
While the holy quran made its statement 1400 years ago
The Egyptians were using hieroglyphics for 3400 years until they died out
about 1600 years ago in AD 1400
When the rosetta stone an ancient artifact
That became the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics
Was discovered in 1799 attempt to decipher it began
But it was only in 1822 that jean-francois Champollion
A french scholar of ancient languages
Announced that he had succeeded in reading the hieroglyphics
And cracking the rosetta stone by using the greek language as a guide
This very nicely proves that Egyptian hieroglyphics were not deciphered during the seventh century
The century of the Holy Quran
so in conclusion the Holy Quran is the only ancient book
That states specifically that the sex determination is caused by the sperm
And that the sperm determines the sex of every baby
From 1400 years ago
A scientific fact which was later discovered by Edmund Beecher Wilson and Nettie Stevens
Only in 1905
When they discovered the chromosomal XY sex determination system
Namely the fact that males have XY sex chromosomes
And females have XX sex chromosomes