• The_Lurker@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      God is nonbiological so no gender. Or all genders. If God is in everything, then there are some bacteria with 23 or so sexes, so God possesses genders beyond the scope of human consciousness.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        12 hours ago

        Sorry about the correction, but that number isn’t right on two levels.

        1: bacteria didn’t have sexes. Sometimes they will exchange plasmids via a direct pilus or will pick up strays in the environment.

        2: that number is often cited from a book describing certain slime molds (which aren’t molds) as having that few, when almost every species we found have something in the 100’s. But what I think is cool is that some species of actual fungi have something like 72,000 compatible sexes.