Claire’s Baby’s Daddy

The reveal of Kate’s son as Aaron (supposedly Claire’s baby) calls for a re-examination of his biological parents. Claire is Jack’s half-sister. The father is Thomas, who some have pointed out bears a striking resemblance to Ben. I have read one theory that Thomas is the son of Ben and Ann, who somehow got off the island, and that Thomas may have actually been on the island. The latter notion is based on the similarity of his work to the painting in the Hatch (must find this website again). Given Jack’s inability to deal with the innocent child, some connection to Ben seems highly likely. As developed thus far, no other character causes such repulsion. But is Thomas the result of Ben’s seed? Or the result of his cloned DNA? [Which comes first? The chicken or the egg?] Let’s allow for even a third possibility: that Thomas is Ben himself in some sort of time loop/travel.. Another event that suggests the possibility of cloning or of time warps is the encounter of the young Ben with Richard Alpert, the future Other who will appear not to have aged.