[QUOTE][b]Genesis 30
30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
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So please correct me if I'm wrong but...
Jacob took some fresh-cut branches from hazel and chestnut trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white wood of the branches (calls these rods).
Then he placed the peeled branches(rods)in the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the animals when they came to drink. When the animals came to drink, they mated in front of the branches (rods). They had offspring that were speckled, streaked and/or spotted.
He had made separate flocks for himself and didn't put them with Labans animals. Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches. If the animals were weak, he would not put them there. Therefore the weak animals went to Laban and the strong animals went to Jacob. Jacob was a smart man!
I'm sure this has shown up before...But how would a Creation Scientist explain this? Since Creation Scientists are constantly explaining "The Great Flood and Noahs ark" story, then they should also be able to explain other stories like the one above.
If Genesis is meant to be taken literally, then maybe someone could give me a reasonable explanation to how this happened?
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