[Hajman]

It is like asking a Christian the basis for his belief that Christ is the Son of God. The Christian who gives me long answeres based upon scriptures and what not is not really sure of his beliefs. He needs to prove them. The Christian who says "because He is" is the one who I would accept as having a solid belief.

Actually, the informed Christian can give historical evidence (like that in the Bible) to help validate that belief. "Because He is" just shows that faith is needed in this case because one can't prove Jesus is God. However, this doesn't apply to something like Life, because that can be observed and proved (as it's a biological term by nature. In other words, it's a term of science, defined by science, validated by science. It's not a term of faith as "Jesus is God". Scientific terms should never be validated or accepted on "Just because it is").

-The Hajman-

[pcl]

The issue of a fetus being a human is not a scientific one. It is a religious, moral or philosphical issue. By human, I mean something different than a Homo Sapian.

A dog is dog from the moment of conception. No doubt about it. He has dog DNA. If everything goes well, he will develop into a living, breathing dog. The same is true for a Homo Sapian. It is pure and simple (?) biology.

The question is what makes a human different than a dog. It is not just a set of dog or homo sapian DNA sequences. It is somthing else. Something that we all know is there but we can not lay our finger on precisely. For want of a better concept, most people call it a soul.

The soul is what makes man different than a another sequence of DNA. The soul is what makes a Homo Sapian a Human.

The question then becomes at what point does the soul merge with the Homo Sapian to make a Human.