To: TigerPaw who wrote (20276 ) 6/9/2005 1:14:03 AM From: Greg or e Read Replies (2) | Respond to The question of twins is an interesting and challenging one. I don't know but I assumed that you are not a twin. If not then my statement that "You are a genetically unique individual Human Being, and have been from the moment your parents DNA mixed together at your conception." would not even be in question, it is a fact. But lets say for arguments sake that you were. This might bring up some interesting questions about identity between the two twins but there still is no question that the twins both before and after division are 1.Human 2.Alive and 3.Genetically distinct fromscientists are not agreed on many aspects of twinning. Some claim that twinning may be a nonsexual form of parthenogenesis or "parenting." This occurs in some animals and plants. Others claim that when twinning occurs, an existing human being dies and gives life to two new and identical human beings like himself or herself. Still others claim that since not all human concepti have the capacity to twin, one could argue that there exists in some concepti a basic duality prior to the split. Hence, it may be claimed that at least in some incipient form two individual lives were present from the start at conception. In any event, the fact of twinning does not seem to be a sufficient reason to give up the belief that full humanness begins at conception. (Francis Beckwith)
