Can Jesus' and other cases of "virgin birth" be examples of "parthenogenesis" ?

Question

In April 2004, scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture used parthenogenesis successfully to create a fatherless mouse.
In theory, artificial human parthenogenesis could be used to reproduce humans, but this is highly unlikely due to ethical concerns. Use of an electrical or chemical stimulus can produce the beginning of the process of parthenogenesis in the asexual development of viable offspring.On August 2, 2007, after much independent investigation, it was revealed that discredited South Korean scientist, Hwang Woo-Suk, produced the first human embryos through parthenogenesis.The offspring of parthenogenesis will be all female if two like chromosomes determine the female gender (such as the XY sex-determination system), but male if two like chromosomes determine the male gender (such as the ZW sex-determination system), because the process involves the inheritance and subsequent duplication of only a single sex chromosome.”
Source :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogen...

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis

I have read Da Vinci Code .

Is it theoretically possible for a human female to give birth a male offspring through parthenogenesis ?

Answer 1

no... its impossible... coz parthenogenesis was never observed in mammals and it existed only in very few exceptional species where they were able to reproduce asexually. and parthenogenesis was not successfully demonstrated experimentally in human beings...
and here I jus mean the normal human beings and not jesus christ coz there are issues on his birth, u would have read "da vinci code"

Answer 2

It might have been possible if Jesus was a female.. As females contain only 2 X chromosomes, any gamete taken from them would produce only a female..
And in any case, I don't think there was enough technology then to produce an embryo by parthenogenesis..

And actually, a male sperm has the centrioles necessary for the division of the cell, which a female egg does not have.. But I think that is no hindrance, cuz it can be artificially done..

Answer 3

Probably not.

If you read the wikipedia article you reference you'll notice that it really can't happen with humans since a male actually is required to activate some of the genes needed by humans (and if it did the children would be all girls).

In all likelihood the virgin birth cases were connected with sex nine month's before but were stated to be virgin births as an attempt to get around laws that ban having children out of wedlock.

The case of Jesus being born of a virgin derives from a bad translation of "Young Women" from Hebrew into Greek. The historical evidence for Jesus is pretty much non-existent anyway.

In any real cases the most likely explanation is that in societies in which female virginity is valued a woman giving birth out of wedlock would try to blame god for it instead of suffer the wrath of the town for what she had been doing nine months previously.

Answer 4

No. Jesus was a real human person and as such was conceived and birthed in the world just like the rest of the Homo sapiens.

Answer 5

Your basic premise that Jesus was a case of "virgin birth" is wrong. It is called a priori logic wherein something is assumed to be true for which there is no real evidence.

(Testaments with presumed verbetim quotes written 100+ years later are not valid evidence)

Answer 6

Wouldn't Jesus be female if created in this way?

I think there are more feasible explanations for this so called 'virgin birth', a bad translation from ancient to modern languages probably being the least offensive theory.