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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (22183)8/9/2005 12:35:12 AM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
"Let's agree to resolve our difference of opinion strictly on the basis of the best available scientific evidence as to when the life of a new human being begins. Any takers?"

I am pretty sure that the default is yours. The life of a distinct human being is set at the embryonic stage. An additional distinction has been raised however ... that of personage. Is everything that can be categorized as a homo-sapien a person?

I am unclear of your use of the term 'dignity'. It is my understanding that each and every human being is born with an endowment of natural rights that can not be separated from the human condition without causing harm. If that is what you mean by the term 'dignity', then I concur. That does not, however, bring us any closer to a reasoned starting point.

"Where do we go to find the answer? Not to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. If the Catechism takes a position, it must do so derivatively. That is to say, its position will be derived from another source. (I'll identify that source in a moment.) Not to the Bible, which says nothing about human embryos. Not to the Talmud, which (like the Bible) was composed centuries before the discovery of the ovum----a time when almost nothing was known about embryogenesis. Not to the Koran. Not to our "moral intuitions." Rather, we go to the standard texts of modern human embryology and developmental biology---"

The Quran says that an angel breaths the soul into the embryo at the end of the first trimester. I realize that doesn't pass scientific muster.
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