Disaster wrote:

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>Well as pointed out before hand, Rei was not grown in a lab. Nor does she
>possess what you would call a normal upbringing or even a standard soul.
>Rei was born and raised in what we could only call alien circumstances.
>That is not to say she flew down in a spaceship or anything like that.
>
>When we she Rei I she appears to be around the age of 5, not 10. When we
>see Rei II she appears to be about 14. The only conclusion based on the
>dates and amount of time that we know to have expired, Rei must have
>somehow either on her own or artificially, acquired accelerated growth.
>
Yeah, watching at the episode again I'm having a tough time convincing 
myself that the little Rei with Gendo in episode 21 is any older than 
5-6 years old, especially since at the time of her death, Rei II is 
twice Rei I's height in episode 21.  And, according to the Death & 
Rebirth website, Rei is "a stoic girl of fourteen."  I guess there's no 
getting around it.

>I would like to ask though where you got the idea that she was created at
>the same time as Shinji?
>
Oops, I meant, like, in the same year :)

Richard