Secondly, there are some really gross people here. Doesn't Diglett and Wailord being able to breed prove that it can't be through intercourse?
I briefly considered showing this thread how the
Harry Potter fandom believe the character Hagrid (whose father was a normal man and whose mother was an actual giantess) was born, but I'm pretty sure none of you really want to know.
That being said, the point I was trying to make earlier is that there's numbers of ways that an egg can be created, but the problem is that the development team (the games' writers included) never actually specified how it goes down -- and they certainly didn't simply say "oh, Celebi places these eggs in this day care." (*motions to the entry she mentioned in an earlier post*) Of course, they didn't specifically say that's
not how it goes down either. (I just personally believe it to be unlikely. I've already mentioned why.) The only clues we have are that a couple of old people looked at a kid who they presumed has no concepts of sexual intercourse (being ten and all) and said "we don't know how it got here." This also doesn't rule out the possibility that pokémon
do do it like the Discovery Channel because it's implied that the couple aren't actually watching the pokémon as they wander off into the bushes to make said egg. (Note that the one who hands you the egg said they just happened to
find it near one of the player's pokémon. They never say they watched it be created.)
Long story short, I really don't think there's a right or wrong answer. Some people can think of pokémon biology = real-life biology. Others can have a sparkly light show if they want to interpret it that way.
But in any case, isn't the whole point of this thread to point out that it's amusing to imagine Wailord and Diglett mating? You might consider it gross, but the idea was really there from page one, and anyway, given that you've been pointing it out yourself, I'm assuming you found the mental image amusing to begin with. (Because there's nothing really funny about a wailord and a diglett just glowing and making an egg by magic.)