Giants_in_the_Bible

GIANTS IN THE BIBLE
PROF. M. M. NINAN
It is very likely that the only way that you would get this genetic disorder to be so strongly reinforced as
to have an entire tribes of giants, where every man, woman, and child has the genetic disorder, is by
inbreeding. The scientific understanding of hereditary gigantism supports this assertion. (3,8) And we
know that these people did practice inbreeding. God confirms these nations practiced inbreeding in
Leviticus 18, and this is what it would take to get entire villages of giants, in which every man woman
and child was a giant. For instance, FIPA is a dominant trait with only incomplete penetration, meaning
it acts recessive in many ways, and so it would be almost impossible to get a whole village of giant
people, except if the trait was reinforced through inbreeding, like the close inbreeding Lev 18 mentions,
making the trait to show very dominantly…..
“And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose fingers and
toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was the son of
the giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him. These
were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his
servants.” 1 Ch 20:6-8
Like a quarantine, to save much more of humanity from the genetic disorder of gigantism, God had
these tribes of giant people to be killed. This was a mercy on any children they may have had, and
future generations, as gigantism is a very painful, deforming and disabling genetic disorder. This also
was protective against spreading this genetic disorder to all those peoples around them, including the
Israelites. (Jdg 3:5-7)
http://www.fipapatients.org/disorders/fipa/
Figure below:. Autosomal dominant disease with incomplete penetrance. In this case, the
father's abnormal gene was inherited by 2 of his 4 children. Out of the three carriers (the father,
one son and one daughter) two patients developed the disease (father and daughter) while the
third carries the gene but has not developed the disease. We do not know if this third person
(the carrier son in this case) will develop the disease in the future or not, and currently it is not
possible to predict this.
Families with pituitary adenomas, FIPA families, can be divided into two groups.
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