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PROLIFE, something is bothering me about what you have posted here.
I believe, to put it bluntly, that it contains a lie.
I believe that the "heart's" energy output is not "20% OF ADULTS".
I believe you put that there because you felt it was persuasive, and made the small cell cluster, the bit of embryonic tissue in development toward a human heart, including regular electrical pulses, seem more like a teeny, but completed, and quite powerfully beating, little human heat. (I think those electrical pulses are random in the developing brain and regular in the developing heart, but I'm not sure about this.)
I think you want us to believe that a forty day old fetus has a heart that produces 1/5, or 20% of the energy that your heart produces.
But that isn't true, is it?
I'll tell you what might be true, though, PROLIFE. I figured this out by asking myself what would be the cover excuse for such a lie.
Now, I'll admit I have no scientific knowledge about this; I am going to provide my theory based purely on my conviction, based on an assessment of the typical argument ethics I have noted among anti-abortion zealots, that you have provided misinformation that either you or its originator knew was a lie; and on my attempt to figure out how the originator of the lie would work up a rationale for it.
How does this guess sound, as a guess for the rationalization for the lie?--
"Well [you will say], I didn't mean <<FORTY DAYS------------HEART'S ENERGY OUTPUT AT 20% OF ADULTS>>, what I really meant to say was that if the tissue of the fetus, which weighs, say, a few ounces, were blown up in weight and volume several hundred-fold, until, though it was the same type of tissue, with the same spasmodic "twitch" in the heart cells (though no developed circulatory system to pump blood through yet, I imagine)-- it now weighed two hundred pounds!... well, then THAT TWO HUNDRED POUND FETUS would have a neurological event taking place in the heart tissue, like a "beat" without a pump, that produced 1/5 of the energy a 200 pound adult human heart produces!"
Now I am not a scientist, but I do have a good built in lie detector. And I have gone out on a limb here. If you show me that the the statement you "shouted" here,
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is true, I will certainly have to apologize for my mistrust and rudeness.
Was it a lie, PROLIFE? Perhaps one that took you in? Or do you still claim that at forty days the fetal heart's energy output is 1/5 that of an adult's heart?
Or do you have some... uh... modification... or clarification... you would like to make, involving blowing that fetus WAY up, a couple of hundred pounds up, to get to that 20% figure you shouted here? |
