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To: TimF who wrote (473)6/15/2008 12:45:15 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 3816
 
That is a classic conflation!
You are again conflating the notion of life as "not dead" with the notion of life as being a separate human entity.

Both may be valid definitions, but to make any sense you have to pick on or the other for any particular discussion, or if you want to discuss them both you have to make a distinction in the terminology if you want to make sense.

the issue we where talking about is biology

Okay, if you want to talk about biology, then life does not begin at conception, it began about 4 billion years ago when there was no other living creature so conception wasn't an issue.

This is using the definition of life means "not dead". All the life we know of in the last 4 billion years came from various chemical combinations of life that already existed. It doesn't spring forth anew each time a couple of cells with single stranded DNA fuse to form double stranded DNA.

We can address life as some other definition too, but then we aren't just discussing not-dead, we are discussing some variation on the definition.

TP
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