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To: freebilly
Life doesn't start; ergo, no life; ergo, nothing to end.

That is precisely the fallacy I'm exposing here. Let me ask you, on the electromagnetic spectrum, where does "red" begin? It doesn't, because red falls along a continuum of electromagnetic wavelengths. Does that mean that there is no red? Of course not.

You (and the many others who fall for this fallacy) have not incorporated into your thinking the concept of continua.

Continua are everywhere in our everyday experience, especially in physics and biology. And yet, this fact is denied by statements such as yours.

So, individual human life does exist, but it does not start. That is the nature of the space-time continuum.

14 posted on 01/11/2005 12:57:27 PM PST by beavus
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To: beavus
So, individual human life does exist, but it does not start

Sounds like my car.

15 posted on 01/11/2005 12:59:05 PM PST by freebilly (Go Santa Cruz Basketball! Win CCS!)
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To: beavus

The abortion debate is not framed around the concept of the continua. It is framed around the beginning & end of *human* life. Would you say that a human corpse is alive? If so, how is it alive? If not, when did it start living?

I think you're correct in saying that life is a continuum, but *human* life is not. The human body has a definite end to its life and has a definite beginning, although we aren't able to scientifically say when that beginning is.


22 posted on 01/11/2005 1:12:20 PM PST by RBranha
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To: beavus; freebilly
Your discussion explains a little about that infinite statement of, "I am who am."

People embracing Faith can appreciate such a profound declaration and find comfort in it. People without Faith have trouble understanding the definition of "is".

Matthew 26:26
104 posted on 01/12/2005 8:04:13 AM PST by SaltyJoe ("Social Justice" begins with the unborn child.)
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