what if they use genetic engineering to accomplish it?
will it prove anything, disprove anything>???
Sexual reproduction is in fact natural genetic engineering i.e. recombining DNA from two genetically different hosts to make one new genetically different organism. The only difference between natural and artificial genetic engineering is skipping the nasty, sex part.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.Dr. Carl Sagan