>>53387252This idea makes so little sense that I don't even know where to begin.
While supposedly nobody has observed Pokémon laying eggs (and it's going to stay that way, kids' franchise and all), you're not telling me that in all of Pokémon world nobody has ever made an observation in support of that "crazy theory", as it's named in the pic, if there's any truth to it.
Namely, nobody has observed a Pokémon gathering plants and dirt to make an "egg", crafting it, giving birth to an undeveloped baby or even a fetus, and THEN wrapping it in the "egg". That's far too many actions (compared to just ejecting an egg from mother's body) to go completely unnoticed.
All of Elm's evidence is an analysis of egg shells and even he says that calling his idea a theory is a stretch.
The technicalities of the idea make zero sense and as far as I know, there doesn't exist a process like this in the real world. I won't get too deep into this, but for instance, born beings start breathing as they're disconnected from the mother via the umbilical cord or from the air sac inside the egg. How the hell would wrapping a baby Pokémon inside an egg for an unknown period of time work? Would the parents construct an egg AND place nutrients and an air sac inside of it to keep the baby from starving and suffocating, AND to allow it to develop until it's ready to defend itself and hatch?
That's completely ridiculous on its own, and we're not even taking into account the process of crafting the not-egg, this way or another. It would require the parents to be able to manipulate small objects with utmost dexterity. Every single breeding species out there, with or without hands or telekinetic powers.
I could go on, but I don't care enough. I'd sooner believe that Arceus is materializing them out of nothing, than that they're "cradles". My opinion stays the same: Pokémon lay eggs, plain and simple.
