Atheists:how does the embryo come to life at some instance?

Question

The same dead embryo at some instance.... comes to LIFE!?

how can you explain that?

Answer 1

Oy - dead embryos can't come to life! They're alive when it's still a separate sperm and egg, only then it's two cells instead of just one. The cells are alive all the way - I guess the deal on abortion is the idea that in the early stages that life isn't formed enough and complex enough to count.

Answer 2

Do you mean "at some instant"? Please, if you want your questions to be taken seriously write them in an intelligent manner.

Now, to address the question. I don't see the embryo as being dead. Its made up of living cells. Both the ovum and the sperm are alive at the point where they meet or an embryo would not form. Unlike people who believe life is created at the instant these two cells meet, I believe there is life there from the time that the two cells are formed in the bodies of the man and the woman, but they are only potentially a new human life.

I am not going to make a judgement on women who have abortions. I don't think anyone likes it, but I also know that sometimes it is the best choice. Did you know that up to a quarter of all pregnancies end in miscarriage? Many are too early to even be detected by the woman, so she thinks she has had a late period. Does this make God prochoice, but just his choice, nobody elses'?

Answer 3

In organisms that reproduce sexually, once a sperm fertilizes an egg cell, the result is a cell called the zygote that has all the DNA of two parents. In plants, animals, and some protists, the zygote will begin to divide by mitosis to produce a multicellular organism. The result of this process is an embryo.

In animals, the development of the zygote into an embryo proceeds through specific recognizable stages of blastula, gastrula, and organogenesis. The blastula stage typically features a fluid-filled cavity, the blastocoel, surrounded by a sphere or sheet of cells, also called blastomeres.

During gastrulation the cells of the blastula undergo coordinated processes of cell division, invasion, and/or migration to form two (diploblastic) or three (triploblastic) tissue layers. In triploblastic organisms, the three germ layers are called endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm. However, the position and arrangement of the germ layers are highly species-specific, depending on the type of embryo produced. In vertebrates, a special population of embryonic cells called the neural crest has been proposed as a "fourth germ layer", and is thought to have been an important novelty in the evolution of head structures.

During organogenesis molecular and cellular interactions between germ layers, combined with the cells' developmental potential or competence to respond, prompt the further differentiation of organ-specific cell types. For example, in neurogenesis, a subpopulation of ectoderm cells is set aside to become the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. Modern developmental biology is extensively probing the molecular basis for every type of organogenesis, including angiogenesis (formation of blood vessels), chondrogenesis (cartilage), myogenesis (muscle), osteogenesis (bone), and many others.

Generally, if a structure pre-dates another structure in evolutionary terms, then it also appears earlier than the other in an embryo. This general rule is sometimes summarized by the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." For example, the backbone is a common structure among all vertebrates such as fish, reptiles and mammals, and the backbone also appears as one of the earliest structures laid out in all vertebrate embryos. The cerebrum in humans, which is the most sophisticated part of the brain, develops last. This rule is not absolute, but it is recognized as being partly applicable to development of the human embryo.

Answer 4

Well. first off there was no dead embryo. And I guess us atheists would say I don't know. How do you think it happens?

REally, if you think it is a God thing just remember sex has been going on for millions of years. Not 6000.

I believe there are still people in the deep south that have never heard of sex - what a God loving world they live in.

Answer 5

Your argument is flawed by being based on a false premise - the embryo is alive to begin with. It doesn't start off dead.

Answer 6

Now, now...one need not be a theist to acknowledge the scientific fact that a new individual living organism is created at fertilization.

Answer 7

Did you ever think that being alive can merely mean a chemical and electrical activity?
Does it have to include something magical and supernatural?

Answer 8

So, for every question that you cannot answer, it is the proof of the existance of God. It is a good escape.

Answer 9

If you realy want to know, study biology and medecine.
If not, just say, as usual for all things that you do not understand, "God did it".

Answer 10

I think that is a question for a doctor.