RE: Pro-life atheists
May 26, 2014 at 11:33 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2014 at 11:35 pm by Heywood.)
(May 26, 2014 at 11:28 pm)Chas Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 10:53 pm)Heywood Wrote: I'm sure the people who thought it was okay to slaughter Native Americans felt anyone who told them it was immoral because they are persons was also liar.
Calling someone a liar and yourself a truth bearer is not a good argument.
If you want to know what a human being is.....it is being or organism of the same species as you and I. Since you like to google....google "organism".
Good, because a fetus isn't an organism.
Merriam-Webster
or·gan·ism
noun \ˈȯr-gə-ˌni-zəm\
: an individual living thing
Biology Online
Organism
noun, plural: organisms
(Science: Biology)
An individual living thing that can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, and maintain homeostasis. It can be a virus, bacterium, protist, fungus, plant or an animal.
Medical Dictionary
organism or·gan·ism (ôr'gə-nĭz'əm)
n.
An individual form of life, such as a plant, an animal, a bacterium,
a protist, or a fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other
parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life.
Embryos have a cellular body that contains organelles that work together to carry on the various processes of life.
(May 26, 2014 at 11:31 pm)Losty Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 11:28 pm)Heywood Wrote: Embryos engage in cellular homeostasis.
Really all by themselves? So if you just leave that embryo in its Petri dish it will continue to engage in homeostasis? No. It will die.
Well you will die too if the beneficial bacteria are removed from your gut. You are not viable as an individual.
But really...embryos do engage in cellular homeostasis. Embryos meet the text book definitions of organisms.