(June 20, 2014 at 9:48 am)Heywood Wrote: Stem cells are constituent cells and have no potential by themselves to ever become a human being. To become a human being a stem cell needs to be fused with an unfertilized egg(which has had it nucleolus removed). A stem cell requires the intervention of an intellect and the addition of outside parts. It isn't any more of a human being than a sperm.
Now if this intervention and addition of new parts occurred, you would have a human being. You would have something that can grow in the proper environment, reproduce, metabolize, maintain homeostasis, etc.
Please explain why the additional care and materials are required for the stem cell to gain protected status and not for the fertilized egg? Are you saying that at some, unexplained and seemingly arbitrary, point, the assemblage of chemicals which is the stem cell and additional materials added gains 'human being' status equivalent to the, again, justification unexplained, status of the fertilized egg? Can you explain, with precision, exactly where that point is and why?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
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