#086 Christianese Proto-Waffle

And it came to pass that Genetics says nayyyyy

Brother Jones makes some shitty waffles. Smitty narrates

his character of King Benjamin waffling-on, like a drunk

telling a disorganised story recursively. I wonder why?

We discuss the Founder Effect: the loss of genetic variation

observable in isolated people groups established by

very few "founders". Because they are isolated, the

groups receive little or no new genetic information

over time, from the larger population

they are isolated from.

The term is often used when the isolating factor is

geographical, but the effect holds true when the

reason is social (including religious).

Infamously obvious in the birth defects of inbred

royal families, such as the Habsburgs of the

middle-ages. Much less pronounced, the effect has been

cited as the cause of skeletal birth anomalies amongst

the Amish of the United States.

And as we discuss, the founder effect created by

ye olde polygamous Mormon families cannot be doing

anything good for their health. Especially when

young men have a tendency to be excommunicated, and

patriarchs collect wives like they are trapping Pokemon.

Other High or Low lights:

The dire consequences for amnesia (Mosiah 5:9-12).

Smitty doesn't remember the 70000 Israelis that died the last time a Jewish king tried to take a census (2 Samuel 24), and narrates his King Benji character taking a roll call (Mosiah 6:1).

King Benji remembers the people had houses after keeping them impractically in tents for no reason (Mosiah 6:3).

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