También publicó la receta para crear homunculos:"For there is some truth in this thing, although for a long time it was held in a most occult manner and with secrecy, while there was no little doubt and question among some of the old Philosophers, whether it was possible to Nature and Art, that a Man should be begotten without the female body and the natural womb. I answer hereto, that this is in no way opposed to Spagyric Art and to Nature, nay, that it is perfectly possible".
Esta creencia da mucho que pensar, a pesar de ser una creencia supersticiosa. Nos recuerda como anteriormente se creía en la teoría de la generación espontanea, por ejemplo, que los ratones brotaban de la ropa vieja o que las moscas brotaban de la carne putrefacta."Let the semen of a man putrefy by itself in a sealed cucurbite with the highest putrefaction of venter equinus for forty days, or until it begins at last to live, move, and be agitated, which can easily be seen. At this time it will be in some degree like a human being, but, nevertheless, transparent and without a body. If now, after this, it be every day nourished and fed cautiously with the arcanum of human blood, and kept for forty weeks in the perpetual and equal heat of venter equinus, it becomes thencefold a true living infant, having all the members of a child that is born from a woman, but much smaller. This we call a homunculus; and it should be afterwards educated with the greatest care and zeal, until it grows up and starts to display intelligence".
Crear vida artificial humana es una fantasía sin sentido. Lo que si anelan muchos científicos, particularmente los que se dedican al estudio del problema de la biogenesis es crear vida en el laboratorio. No se pretende crear homunculos, sino células primitivas en un proceso que nos revele como se creo la vida en este planeta.
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