2007-04-23 18:50:48 · 9 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Suspendor of Starships: Well that's much more nebulous to define, isn't it?
2007-04-23 18:56:45 · update #1
Meg: I wasn't aware that the passing on of genes was what formed human consciousness.
2007-04-23 19:37:58 · update #2
>>Well that's much more nebulous to define, isn't it?<<
You naughty, naughty squirrel! You been neglecting your science homework again. Read 'Fertilization: Beginning a new organism' in the science textbook 'Developmental Biology':
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=books&doptcmdl=GenBookHL&term=fertilization+AND+dbio%5Bbook%5D+AND+131388%5Buid%5D&rid=dbio.chapter.1334
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>>Meg: I wasn't aware that the passing on of genes was what formed human consciousness.<<
"Human consciousness" is not a criterion for life.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99171.htm
2007-04-23 19:13:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans are made of water and carbon (amongst other) which never goes away. We rot, get reabsorbed into the ground and then continue on the circle of life, so technically speaking, one of the carbon molecules that make up my body could have been around 4 billion years ago.
The Church can't even agree on when a life begins. A baby's life does not begin until it has breathed God in, but then it is murder to have a embryo aborted. There is that wonderful christian logic.
2007-04-24 02:20:54 · answer #2 · answered by Sarcasma 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
interesting perspective.
but, by that philosophy we are all just one large interconnected organism. Parts of which live and die.
I'm a pro-choice atheist- but I still see value in human life and don't wish to harm other beings. (yes- I'm a vegetarian)
2007-04-24 01:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, they mean when life is instantiated in a particular young human.
I think that unnecessary abortion is murder, and that even if it weren't, it would definitely be cruelty to an animal, so it should be illegal.
2007-04-24 01:55:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They're talking about when the sperm and the egg merge and form a zygote.
2007-04-24 02:03:05 · answer #5 · answered by Harry P. Ness 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One time we had a mouse in our house, and we soaked a french fry in Jack Daniel's and set it our for the mouse to find. He ate it, and we found him lying passed out on the kitchen floor the next morning. It reminds me of your O.D.ed squirrel.
um ... anyway... yes, life began.
2007-04-24 01:58:50 · answer #6 · answered by MONK 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I agree with SofS, I'm afraid. You know exactly what we are talking about, and YOUR life didn't begin billions and billions of years ago, right??
2007-04-24 02:01:04 · answer #7 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are TALKING about when a NEW, separate life. A being with its own DNA, different from that of both the father and mother.
Don't play stupid.
2007-04-24 01:55:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
exactly
the self is only an idea
2007-04-24 01:53:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋