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Originally posted by Yorick:
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Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar:
Fine. I'll forget about a soul. Then in this case I'll adopt the stance that a human isn't a human until it LOOKS like one. Is that what you want? You're trying to back up your faith with science and it just doesn't work like that. You can't preach to me and then claim I need to be scientific about my arguments.
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ANd what does a human look like? I've already asked if a person born without legs is considered less than human. What of people born with all sorts of abnormalities? Conjoined twins etc etc.
POTENTIAL is what defines humans. Not whether then human fits into the preset mould. It is the potential of the human, given time and perfect health.
You do need to be scientific about your answers. Wherever possible - especially on matters of faith - I try and be a scientific as possible. Faith and science are not mutually exclusive, but intertwine and overlap. The matter of when in the womb human life starts is not a faith question, but a scientific one. [/QUOTE]I have yet to hear scientists agree on when human life starts. You can use science to back up your faith in this case, but you can't say that, speaking from a scientific perspective, a zygote is a human being. It's just one way of looking at it.