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To: mcg1969
Quite a tirade there! How can you accuse me or anyone else defending the zygote as an individual human being of anthropomorphism regarding the zygote if you haven't been given the knowledge to know when it is that God brings the spirit to the body? To the contrary, it appears you've assigned humanity rather arbitrarily.
141 posted on 11/07/2003 11:37:12 AM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN
An accusation that you're anthropomorphising the zygote would be unfounded, yes. That was the point. Read the post again; I did not categorically make such an accusation. I said that I would not be guilty of dehumanization if there is nothing to dehumanize; and that neither you nor I know when God considers that human life begins.

So I am accusing you only of acting out of certainty in something that you cannot be certain of.

You say I assign humanity arbitrarily, but I have not attempted to do so. By saying human life begins at conception, you have. To use purely naturalistic means to assign humanity, despite our shared belief that we are far more than the natural, is suspect. We see through the glass darkly.

143 posted on 11/07/2003 11:50:29 AM PST by mcg1969
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