There are errors, and there is propaganda. The latter is often distinguished from "errors" by its mendacity and the political or ideological benefit redounding to its disseminators.
<<<Actually, I find the 5% figure amazing enough.>>>
Then you misunderstand it.
It would be amazing if you thought it meant that the few hundred cells in the 40 day embryonic heart had an energy "output" of 5% of an adult hearts.
It would be AMAZING.
But that is not the case, and there is nothing amazing about the facts....
(First, btw, the figure for energy output is 1/5, or 20%, not 5%.)
IF you blew up the 1/30 of an ounce 40 day embryo into a BIG GIANT THING THE SIZE OF AN ADULT HUMAN BEING, and we are talking humungous here...
Yes, even IF you blew the eeentsy weentsy thing up by a factor of about 96,000, STILL, even then, when it would be a 200 pound embryo lying there on the floor....
still, that two hundred pound embryo...
would have a "heart"...
that "outputted"...
20% of the energy of an adult heart.
So it isn't an "understandable" substitution of 1/20 for 20%.
It is FIRST a substitution of a BIG GIANT FETUS for the actual 1/30 oz. one, and
THEN the claim that the hypothetical BIG GIANT FETUS's cardiac cells' energy output, which would be 20% of that of an adult human being's, was the energy output of the real 1/30 oz. embryo.
And somebody who knew the figures did it. And it was very clever. And of course effective. Look, you apparently believed, even after all this, that the embryonic energy-output figure was 5% of that of an adult heart, not of 1/5 of the strength of an adult heart if the adult was shrunk to 1/96,000th of his normal 200 pounds!
NB MICHAEL:
This information all courtesy of the two sites posted by PROLIFE, the first, the U of P site, posted by PROLIFE expressly and deceptively to imply that it confirmed the 40% figure.
Quote from PROLIFE: "<<<Oh, by the way, the above is from the University of Pennsylvania. Any questions class?>>>
In fact, there is not, on that site, even any information that could be mistaken for that.
Here's one referencing PROLIFE's own words, which are rather striking, "Any reason I would have to lie?? Just to SAVE lives??"
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Here's the original 40 day embryo-analysis post.
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