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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Dan B. who wrote (21101)7/10/2005 1:43:35 AM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 28931
 
individual Human Beings at the moment of conception is all we have to witness,

Under the circumstances, that being no prior context, your statement has too many potential meanings for me to be sure I understand. For example "witness" has many meanings from court procedures and still others from evangelical ministries.

Twins or no
Through twinning I have proven that the cell at conception is not necessarily individual. Through cloning I have proven that different cell lines are not necessarily distinct. There are even cases where the results of human conception are not human for any given definition of human. It is the exceptions that test the rules, and an absolute statement such as the one I addressed does not have the necessary flexibility to describe why the exeptions are exceptional. It therefore fails the test.

TP