[KosmicKitty]

So, if anyone askes "When does life start?", the answer is simply, "It doesn't." In short, there is no poof.

Life doesn't start at any point because it already exists.

You are taking two living cells and combining them to create a new member of the species. Conception is not the start of life, but a continuing of life. So, I will agree with you that there is no magical point where life starts, but since both living cells exist prior to combining, life already exists.

[beavus]

Life doesn't start at any point because it already exists. You are taking two living cells and combining them to create a new member of the species. Conception is not the start of life, but a continuing of life. So, I will agree with you that there is no magical point where life starts, but since both living cells exist prior to combining, life already exists.

Yes! Exactly! Of all the times I've posted on this issue, you are only the second person to understand! The first was also on this very thread. It must be my lucky day.

I never cease to be amazed at the power of mental blocks. Why do you think continua are so hard for so many people to understand?

Why do you think people insist upon the fallacy of the magical poof at conception? Do you think that that insistence has any detrimental effect?

[Jaded]

Post 73: Point made.

The life it creates becomes separate from it's two original parts.