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Kito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > To be alive requires a few criteria to be >> >filled. A fetus fulfills all these criteria , >> >> No, actually it doesn't. > >so which one doesn't it fulfill ray? Please answer this >scientifically, not with a silly insult that avoids the topic. A fetus doesn't reproduce. There's one. It doesn't breathe nor does it eat. >> >We need to redefine what is human, maybe fetus is just a step along >> >the life-cycle of human life. We proceed from zygote, embryo, fetus, >> >baby, adolescent, teenager, adult, elderly and finally we die. >> >> Why do you start with zygote? Why not start with gamete? Or infant? > >Infant is actually after the zygote. >I'm saying start with zygote because once a zygote is formed or at >least once it clings to the uterine wall , it will become a human >being under most circumstances. Untrue. Aside from the problem of defining something to be what it may become, it's been estimated that 2 in 3 fertilized eggs either fail to implant or spontaneously abort early in the pregnancy. > HOwever sperms and ovums, will die off >after a period naturally , thus cannot be considered part of the human >cycle. That makes no sense. You cannot have people without sperm and egg, and so obviously sperm and egg are part of the reproductive cycle. It appears that you are simply defining terms however you want, without regard to reason or fact. -- Ray Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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