Tom Ames
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Joined: Dec. 2002
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| Quote (thordaddy @ April 11 2006,22:45) | | There are about 6 billion pieces of emprical evidence to suggest that a zygote represents a unique human individual. Everyone who is or ever was was once a SPECIFIC zygote. |
Uh, no. That's my point. Some people were once half a zygote. Some were once two zygotes.
Therefore, the fertilization event that forms a zygote cannot be the defining event of personhood.
How does the current population of the world relate to this observation?
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-Tom Ames
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