RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
June 19, 2023 at 6:40 pm
(June 18, 2023 at 12:09 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Keep telling yourself that while Millions of Babies with Beating Hearts are killed by Abortion every year. Atheism and Moral Subjectivism has failed humanity.
An embryo develops something that can actually be described a heart with four vessels that connects to the lungs and major vascular systems at about 10 weeks; roughly the point where the embryo becomes a fetus. About 75% of abortions have already taken place by this point. Before 10 weeks, what is commonly described as a 'heartbeat' is more accurately described as 'cardiac activity', as it's just an electrical pulse and fluttering of the tube that will develop into the heart; not a true heartbeat at all; despite how sonograms are tuned to make it 'sound' like a heartbeat. By the 20th week, 99% of abortions have been performed.
And the abortion rate has nothing (as far as I can tell from statistics I've been able to find) to do with atheism or moral subjectivism; although atheists in the USA tend to be pro-choice; to the best of my knowledge, we don't actually have abortions at a higher rate than the general population. I suspect that it has something to do with getting a good sex education (even if it has to be self-taught) and therefore knowing better on average how to use birth control properly.
Good sex education has been demonstrated to reduce the number of abortions; but the same people who say they want to save the babies are often the same people who oppose teaching young people how not to get pregnant.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.