And bang you're right back to the question of when life begins.
If you had taken Bio 101, you'd know that life begins at conception. If the egg and sperm were from human beings, then the life is a human being too.
Not quite right! Bio 101 teaches the fact that
life began generations ago (
when is another debate topic altogether, for another discussion).
The sperm, part of the father,
is alive.
The ovum (egg), part of the mother,
is alive.
The zygote, the ovum fertilized by the sperm,
is alive.
And it's a brand-new individual, not a part of either the father or the mother. It's in the mother, but it's not part of her � just as a shirt button swallowed by the father would be
in him but not
part of him.
This is true whether the individual is a mouse, an elk, or a human � a simple
fact of biology.
IIRC from too many decades ago, looking at zygotes through microscopes, the zygote contains nothing that can be identified as either sperm or ovum. It's completely and obviously a brand-new and distinctly different organism. But it doesn't generate life � it has gotten its life from the two other organisms that formed it.
