[SpookBrat]

Well, I'm an atheist and I recognize that ultimately human life has no intrinsic value beyond that of a rock. However, to other humans -- myself included -- human life does have value beyond that of a rock.

You totally lost me there.

[Dimensio]

" Well, I'm an atheist and I recognize that ultimately human life has no intrinsic value beyond that of a rock. However, to other humans -- myself included -- human life does have value beyond that of a rock."

You totally lost me there.

In what way have I lost you?

I don't believe that there is some "Greater Power" that assigns "value" to objects in the universe such that humans are somehow "superior" to rocks in the eyes of some imaginary greater being. I do believe that humans, as a whole, tend to value human life over rocks, and they behave accordingly.

Of course, I'm probably persona non grata around here anyway because I don't believe that human life begins exactly when the sperm fertilizes the egg -- I believe that it begins once there is actual brain activity (though because I can't say when, for certain, there is brain activity, I believe that the unborn should be protected from the earliest there could possibly be any neural activity).