[biblewonk]

The question of when life begins is a scientific one that is well settled. It begins at conception.

The sperm was alive before it got to the egg, which was also already alive. Therefore...

[Jim Noble]

>>The sperm was alive before it got to the egg, which was also already alive. Therefore...<<

Therefore the combination of two alive things create something not alive?

[jwalsh07]

The sperm was alive before it got to the egg, which was also already alive. Therefore...

you're argument is totally without merit because you are apparently genome challenged.

[nmh]

Someone else: "The question of when life begins is a scientific one that is well settled. It begins at conception."

Soemthing alive grows ... .

You: "The sperm was alive before it got to the egg, which was also already alive. Therefore...

Therefore it is ALIVE and the beginning of a human being! I can't imagine why you use "biblewonk" as a moniker since you obviously don't take His word seriously.

[MHGinTN]

Just for good measure, I'm going to shove this silly post (#26) down your throat where it belongs:

The question of when life begins is a scientific one that is well settled. It begins at conception. jwalsh07
The sperm was alive before it got to the egg, which was also already alive. Therefore... 26 posted by biblewonk

What jwalsh07 posted to you is absolutely accurate and you knew the context in which it was offered, that the conceptus is an individual human life begun at conception, not the haploid gametes or sex cells. Your sneaky effort to equate the sex cell (only 23 chromosomes) with the conceptus (46 chromosomes and a self-directing entity seeking survival in its environment, as opposed to the sex cell which is not seeking survival) is atleast disingenuous and at most a nihilist's way to discredit the individuality of the newly conceived individual human being that is the conceptus. So, what was your intent with that twisting, mischaracterization of jwalsh07's post?

[BabsC]

I believe Thomas Aquinas belief was in "halimorphism". Where the "container" should be complete for a human soul. His time table was the beginning of the third trimester, coinsidently that's when the brain waves start.

[watchme]

i don't really understand what you mean by this. if we're taking things that literally then it should be a crime for men to jack off....makes no sense.