reptilians & virgin births

this story is a little old, but i find it interesting. even entertaining, at least it birthed some random musing…

quite a few (female) critters out there can reproduce without a male. you call it  parthenogenesis

insects, lizards, snakes….some species can do it. but all the offspring are male. that’s the only option when you have only a heavenly father and no earthly one.

the komodo dragon, Flora, had such a virgin birth last year around that delightfully spite-infested holiday known to the western world as christmas.

In parthenogenesis, an unfertilized egg develops into an embryo using its two sets of maternal chromosomes.

The unusual process is most commonly known in smaller invertebrates, such as aphids and zooplankton. But it is occasionally recorded in much larger animals, including some reptiles and amphibians.

The main drawback to this mode of reproduction is that populations can become genetically very similar, making them more vulnerable to disease and less able to adapt to change, such as altered climate conditions or new predators.

But there may have been an important advantage to Komodo dragons having fatherless young, the study team says.

The reptiles are native to islands in Indonesia, where female castaways could have need to start new colonies on their own, the researchers say.

“If a female gets swept off her desert island to a new desert island where there are no other dragons, then she can reproduce parthenogenetically,” Gibson said.

Males Only

The offspring of such virgin births are all male, because of the genetics involved in self-fertilization in lizards, Gibson explained.

“When the offspring reach sexual maturity, the mother can reproduce with her own sons, and you’re back to a sexually reproducing population,” Gibson said.

Parthenogenesis has been found in a number of other unexpected animals in recent years, he added.

“It was recorded in a python a couple of years ago,” he said. “Turkeys can do it, and it’s also happened in fish.”

Previous suspected cases of virgin births in zoo animals include a white spotted bamboo shark at the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit.

–from National Geographic, Virgin Birth Expected at Christmas by James Owen

anyhoo, what that made me think of is the people who claim certain higher ups and powers that be are actually reptilian aliens posing as humans (such as the queen of england, the bushes, hillary, etc etc etc etc). you know, the ones that eat babies.

well, these “people” also like to pretend to be “christian” and well, there’s a lot of suspiciousness in that religion anyway…..

so i merely put 2 and 2 together and came up with the following:

your sweet mother mary was actually a reptilian alien and therefore could reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis, thus creating a “virgin birth!” see? science can answer anything!

she didn’t just get knocked up by some guy, forcing her family to cover it up by having a quick marriage. no, i mean, she didn’t just get knocked up by zeus posing as a ray of light. wait, i mean, knocked up by god. errr, divine miracle.

really, i find the reptilian thing more believable. and more fun too!