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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (171076)	8/13/2001 10:13:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Right.... RE: "According to all science a human life starts with the successful fertilization of an ovum by a sperm." A: So, certain clones are not new life? (There's that 'unique human life' thing again....) And asexual reproduction does not produce "life"? RE: "When... scientists say under oath that life begins." A: Science - by definition - has no answers about the supernatural. That is the province of Religion. You can certainly find a subset of scientists that agree with any number of things... and find just as many or more who disagree. I would be skeptical about any claim that "all" of science says any one thing. Scientific knowledge is, by it's very nature, transitory and subject to re-interpretation, revision, rejection and replacement by superior, better defended paradigms. Science may be able to give us a conditional argument for "when life begins", but the point I made earlier was about when "personhood" is conferred upon an individual. As I pointed out, religions and legal systems have been all over the board about this issue... and science can really have no answers. If "personhood" is conditioned upon the union of individual + soul, then we are talking the realm of the supernatural again... by definition, not science.