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To: bentway who wrote (256643)	10/21/2005 2:01:43 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585085

The one issue I'd love to have explained is how the "soul" relates to conception. IIRC, monozygotes twins (or multiples) form from a single zygote, at various stages from day 0 to about 10 or 15??. But this is all after conception. If you argue that conception marks the beginning of a human being and believe this implies a soul, then the soul apparently can replicate. Or each one of the identical zygotes gets a fraction of the original soul. Myself, I think it must follow biology more closely. If the zygote splits on day 0 after only a few cell divisions, then you get nearly perfect twins, so the soul must split in that case, and being nearly unformed, allow both twins an unentangled soul. If it is day 4 or so, and its a blastomere (SP??) split, then you get mirror image twins, so the soul must also be a mirror image split, i.e. the soul has developed to the point where it is entangled with the the other soul. Day 15(??) splits -> conjoined twins, so conjoined soul? The theologically inclined need to delve into this, because it is possible that the soul does not come into play until the possibility of perfect twins has past, say at the blastomere stage. If we could all agree on this key issue, then stem cell research could proceed if the zygote were harvested prior to that point. Perhaps identical triplets illuminates the Trinity concept. Three-in-one, and they have the same soul. Never of thought of it that way before.