Vociferous,
I'll probably get back to the bulk of your hot-tempered blather at some later time. For now, I'd like to take a quick look at your amusingly idiosyncratic attempt to redefine "human life" to suit your purposes.
Yes there is. Science has defined both terms.
human - any member of the mammalian species Homo sapiens
life - animate matter
So, lest I misinterpret you, can I confirm that you're saying that "human life" must consist of an entire organism of the species
Homo sapiens that is "animate"?
That would mean that you would not consider a human arm, for example, to be an example of "human life", even when attached to, say, yourself. Correct?
What do you mean by "animate matter", in this context?
In the case of early development, it goes from a collection of contributing cells (egg and sperm, which could be compared to skin cells, etc.) to a new human life when the new, unique DNA fully takes overt its development.
I assume you meant to write "over" rather than "overt" there.
A foetus is unable to develop without the assistance of such things as a placenta and a uterus, which are not things that are supplied by the foetus itself or under the control of the foetus's DNA.
At what specific point in the development of this new "human life", in your opinion, does that "life's" unique DNA "fully take over its development"? Seeing as you #FollowtheScience and all, I suppose your Science has a definite point in mind.
You are adamant that your version of "human life" does not start at the moment of conception, which I might define as the time when the DNA and of the ovum and sperm cross over to form a new combination of complete
Homo sapiens DNA. Thus, a single-celled fertilised ovum is not, according to you, "human life".
Vociferous said:
Obviously, living skin cells, eggs, sperm, and even fertilized eggs are not members of the species homo sapiens.
Tell me what your Science says about how a "fertilized egg" that is not a member of the species
Homo sapiens becomes such a member, and when (#FollowingTheScience) that happens, exactly.
And equally as obvious is the fact that an embryo developing under it own human DNA is.
Lots of stuff is obvious
to you, of course. But does what is obvious to you actually make sense #FollowingTheScience? That's the question.
So far in your explanation, we have a fertized egg - not a member of the species
Homo sapiens - somehow gaining specieshood by the time it is an embryo. So, at what particular time between those two points does the fertilized egg turn into the human life, according to the #Science?
At that time, does the human life immediately gain all the human rights of an adult human? It would seem the answer to that would be: obviously not. But, according to you, at that time it suddenly acquires, at a minimum, an absolute moral right to use the body of another example of human life for 9 months against that human life's will. Why is that? And what was the relevant moral difference just before and just after it achieved "human life" status, in terms of the #Science?
(Come to think of it, while that "human life" does not gain all the rights of an
adult human being, you insist that it gains
more rights than a newborn baby would have, in that newborn babies do not have the right to use other people's bodies for 9 months without their permission. Why does your "human life" in the womb have more rights than a newborn human child?)
Otherwise, you have to make the absurd claim that something other than a human can develop from human DNA.
That makes me chuckle, because that's
precisely the absurd claim that
you are making. Don't you see?
That fertilised ovum that you proclaim is not "human life" somehow develops into the embryo that you proclaim is "human life". I think you and I can agree that the fertilised ovum has a full set of the requisite human DNA, can we not? So, you are saying that before the magical time when the thing that develops from the fertilised ovum becomes "human life", it is something
other than "a human".
Congratulations. You just labelled your own claim as absurd.
What other tricks have you got up your sleeve?
Very clear and simple distinction of when merely living cells become human life.
One that you have yet to make. Maybe you'll explain yourself in your reply to this post. We'll see.