The following report is from SyFy:
What if you looked in the mirror and knew that you came from only one parent because another wasn’t necessary to create you?
Maybe it’s not exactly the dystopia Aldous Huxley envisioned (and was brought to life in the Peacock TV adaptation), where human embryos were conceived in vitro and grown in glass tanks (which would creep anybody out), but the possibility of creating another human from only the mother’s genes is kind of like a Brave New World altverse. Clones? More like parthenogenesis. This phenomenon, literally meaning “virgin birth,” occurs in some reptiles and other creatures — but never mammals. Until now.
Asexual reproduction is not a thing among mammals. That changed when an international team of researchers managed to turn unfertilized eggs (oocytes) from female mice into actual embryos. All of them survived for a while, and one even made it to adulthood. Parthenogenesis happens when an embryo develops from an unfertilized egg, but sexual reproduction in mammals requires both male and female DNA. This defied it.
“In mammals, parthenogenesis is limited because of problems arising from genomic imprinting,” the researchers said in a study recently published in PNAS, adding that “parthenogenesis can be achieved by targeted epigenetic rewriting of multiple critical imprinting control regions.”
Parthenogenesis does not happen naturally in mammals, and previous attempts ran into DNA glitches. Because mammalian conception needs genes that can only come from a male parent, the research team solved that by editing certain female genes with CRISPR until they were the same as if they had come from a male. They repeated the process with several eggs. These were then implanted into the female’s uterus and allowed to grow, and they went from embryonic to fetal stages to actual, living offspring, one of which was eventually able to produce its own offspring.
How a gene is expressed depends on imprinting, during which that gene is modified or altered, though the DNA sequence itself remains the same. Some imprinted genes are only expressed when inherited from the female while others need to be inherited from the male. The researchers had to be extremely precise with CRISPR editing. Deleting some genes can cause mutations that may end up being too problematic for an embryo to make it.
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So how do some female animals manage to spawn without a mate or genetic intervention? When a gamete cell divides in the process of meiosis, there are four resulting cells. Each of these cells has half of the the parent cell’s chromosomes. These are known as haploid cells, as opposed to diploid cells, which have all the chromosomes. The byproducts of oogenesis are haploid cells, or polar bodies, which produced with oocytes. These cannot be fertilized and often die out. However, there are exceptions when a female needs no male.
There is one form of parthenogenesis that only needs an oocyte and a polar body to create an embryo. This is automixis, which occurs in certain species of sharks and moves some of the genes around so the offspring can survive. Another type of parthenogenesis, apomixis, works with gamete cells skipping meiosis entirely and self-replicating through mitosis, so all the necessary genes are already in there. Apomixis happens more in plants. Offspring conceived through either form of parthenogenesis are not clones, though they might look unnervingly close.
Anything that is born from automixis is going to be female, because it is going to get two X chromosomes passed down through the mother. This explains why the egg of a lizard which never mated hatched into another female. It is possible for parthenogenic offspring of some organisms to be male, but since their sperm only contains X chromosomes, all their offspring will be female.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Proverbs 20:12
These mad scientists are trying so desperately to be their own gods, and ultimately, in their minds, replace the real and only true God with their inventions and abominable creations.
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Proverbs 27:20
And this will not stop, and will only increase more and more in this age of transhumanism.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Is surrogacy is evil too?
Read about Leah & Rachel, & their maidservants, who came before the Mosaic prohibitions. The whole life of Jacob who permitted it is really instructive, too. Genesis 25-50 KJB
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Because it’s never JUST the women, but also some man standing by & sinning, too. Like Adam. Like Ahab. Genesis 25-50 KJB. Genesis 1-3 KJB. 1 Kings 16 – 2 Kings 10 KJB. Or the men holding the truth in unrighteousness & become fools worshipping & serving the creation more than the creator who is forever blessed, leaving the natural use, denying & avoiding their responsibility first, leaving woman without covering & tempted even further to sin the further that goes. Romans 1 KJB.
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That’s EXACTLY what happened in this nation, &the European nations, & the attack on family came by craft, seducing & flattering, encouraging sin, promoting porn (Baals of Peor & Balaam -Numbers 22-24, his death in Numbers 31 & why he was slain with those wicked kings&giants —the result of sons of God, daughters of men fornications & influencing them& their idolatry & idolatrous lust-driven practices & culture, as God sent Joshua into Canaan: Luciferianism is all about ‘love’…only, it’s not love, it’s vile, fake, self-centered, lust-driven & exploitive: worse than beastlike because there is will & intent involved), with the attack coming from ‘ministries of helps’, professors, teachers, educators, artists, social workers & psychologists — literally, ‘soul scientists’; modeled after Rome’s layered & pyramidal system of whited sepulchre godmen, & women. Modeled after the ‘wisdom’ of Babylon & the world. Their counsel is given in darkness like the confessional & without goodwill toward men: to the preservation of their system, their order.
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That’s why Masonic people are always talking about ‘biting the hand that feeds you’, as if God’s hand didn’t exist or were inferior…the fear of Man everything & legitimate authority. So subtle. So Romish & Babylonian.
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All of these things are relevant because this is an issue of generation, seed, & family in God’s order, & out of it in Lucifer-Satan’s territory.
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I say Lucifer-Satan because both terms are biblical, & I know by experience how the deceitful revisionists separate the two & make Lucifer ‘good’, changing Isaiah 14 & confounding his identity w/ our Lord Jesus Christ’s; breaking the connection between that covering cherub, Lucifer of Ezekiel 28 who willfully self-corrupted himself so that iniquity was found in him, that serpent ‘more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made in Genesis 3, and Satan who isn’t named as such until first mention in 1 Chronicles 21:1 KJB.
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Sometimes if they aren’t deeply in or conditioned to it, initiated, seared & reprobate…still tender enough of conscience & not utterly turned from truth, the realization of who Lucifer really is shocks them to consider what they are really trusting & serving. Planting seeds. They need to receive the Law & their conviction before it & the impossibility of keeping it, even striving to & responsible to God for striving against the flesh & evil; & own it of themselves, before they can savingly receive grace. Galatians.
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Seeds planted that biblically he is that old father of lies & all the children of pride who brings corruption, death & destruction though he can come as the seducer & flatterer, even as a false angel of light, can spark productive thought & conviction. Maybe he’s lying to THEM? What if those counselors, mentors, gurus or whoever their initiating wisemen are telling them differently, are wrong, & terribly deceived?
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Jezebel isn’t mentioned again until the book of Revelation; but Ahab comes up in 2 Chronicles 18 KJB. 2 is number of division, separation, & choice. 18 is 3 x 6 …wholely given to worshipping & serving the creature, man & beast; or 2×9 …choice & fruit.
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Those are some scary additional insights….& sobering… either way. Nothing in God’s word is random, or accidental. Law & grace, choice, faith, determining fruit & end. We must always remember Romans 12:19 & 1 Corinthians 4:5, but not presume upon them because God sees the heart, & God is not mocked. Galatians 6:7 KJB.
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What Leah, Rachel & Sarah did with their maidservants, with Jacob & Abraham passively allowing it, was not expressly forbidden by God, but as his people learned & aped the ways of the nations around them & it passed on, into traditional practice (Colossians 2:8 KJB), receiving & following the impure & corrupt light of Lucifer/Satan, that old beast, & his false way & salvation in their hearts, & following the lusts of their own fallen depraved flesh apart from the believed & applied knowledge of God, or corrupting it with the lies of that old father of lies& his ‘seed’…..it brought them nothing but grief & trouble, deviating from God’s order & way like that. Tradition takes on a life of its own. And it took the generations after them further & further away from God’s way, the trouble growing exponentially.
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See also the case of Sarah & Hagar. Genesis 16& 21, the genealogy from her in Genesis 25 KJB. Her descendents are also in Psalm 83:6, the Hagarenes, grouped in with Moab & Edom who were other sons of corruption: from Lot’s incest & Esau’s carnality, worldliness & carelessness in spiritual things& separation. Actually, as I write & think about it: it was Lot’s carnality, worldliness & carelessness in spiritual things& separation that led to that incest, too. Sin & corruption then plants deep roots of bitterness without sober acknowledgment of mutual sinfulness, & real forgiveness that doesn’t excuse or deny wrong, & evil….or blasphemously blame God for it.
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We’re still dealing with the fall-out of that one w/ Sarah & Hagar, too. And the fact that Jezebel & Balaam both come up in passages concerning the endtimes, in 2 Peter 2, Jude and Revelation 2 is not an accident either.
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God, in his foresight, mercy, goodness, & good will for man has made a way though. Both for the individual sons of Jacob & Ishmael, and of Moab & Edom, & for all the men & women of the world created in the image of God with body, soul & spirit: if they will only humble themselves to truth, & repent to receive it, in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the scriptures, before it’s too late.
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But God being Faithful and True, and holy, holy, holy means he is also just. We live with the consequences, near & far, & all around us. Help people to know what sin is from the Bible, their natural inclinations to it, its destructive outcomes & curse, & to shun & avoid it. If you are young & learn this, you are way, way ahead of the game. The world’s saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure has truth in it.
Consider your namesake, too, Hannah. 1 Samuel. And Elisabeth, who both struggled with barrenness & the bitterness & temptations involved. Luke 1&2, where you will also find Anna who was at the Temple& waiting the consolation of Israel. She was widowed very young, & childless. So there are cases of those whose prayers were answered for children after much petitioning & patience; & there were those who were denied, & yet blessed. Paul also gives advice concerning the married & unmarried in 1 Corinthians where you might find some answers to your question.
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There’s a great danger in giving pat answers to such questions as you ask, leaping to condemnation or leaning into becoming a busybody & meddler in others’ affairs. Such things amongst the people of God pushed a lot of people away from the word, to trusting men blindly, and/or to the world’s ‘psych-ologists’ in our own lifetimes. And a lot of their pat answers men claiming to represent Christ & Bible were NOT rooted in the word of God, but in Rome’s Augustinian & otherwise traditions & philosophies of men, rudiments of the world. The outcomes have not been good.
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God bless you as you seek his will & wisdom.