(February 4, 2015 at 6:34 pm)Chas Wrote: If we put a fertilized egg (it is one cell) in the correct environment (the womb), it will usually result in a live human.
A lot can go wrong along the way.
The fertilized egg came from living beings. If you took the materials that the egg and sperm are made of and combined them you would not have life. What would be the difference between the fertilized egg, and an exact replica of a fertilized egg made from the exact same substances, obtained from non-living sources?