Another perspective from the field of human biology that more or less converges with my personal belief:
"Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The combination of 23 chromosomes present in each pronucleus results in 46 chromosomes in the zygote. Thus the diploid number is restored and the embryonic genome is formed. The embryo now exists as a genetic unity."
from Human Embryology & Teratology
19 Jul 22
@fmf saidAnother academic iteration that coincides with my personal belief:
Another perspective from the field of human biology that more or less converges with my personal belief:
Higher animals start their lives from a single cell, the fertilized ovum (zygote)... The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, of the individual."
from Patten's Foundations of Embryology
19 Jul 22
@kingdavid403 saidYou calling it a "lie" has no effect on the validity of the academic statements I am presenting.
It's a lie. The fertilized egg becomes ready to start the process of creating a person; IF "it" implants in the mothers womb starting the process. IF.
19 Jul 22
@fmf saidThe single cell before it is fertilized is the starting point in our life history; however, a person does not start to form into a life until a pregnancy.
Another academic iteration that coincides with my personal belief:
Higher animals start their lives from a single cell, the fertilized ovum (zygote)... The time of fertilization represents the starting point in the life history, or ontogeny, of the individual."
from Patten's Foundations of Embryology
19 Jul 22
@fmf said"Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception).
Another perspective from the field of human biology that more or less converges with my personal belief:
"Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chromosomes to form a new cell. This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being."
from Essentials of Human Embryology
19 Jul 22
@kingdavid403 saidYour belief is different from mine.
The single cell before it is fertilized is the starting point in our life history; however, a person does not start to form into a life until a pregnancy.
@fmf saidThis is the forth time you've posted this blue face. lol... I read it the first posted time.
"Human development begins after the union of male and female gametes or germ cells during a process known as fertilization (conception).
"Fertilization is a sequence of events that begins with the contact of a sperm (spermatozoon) with a secondary oocyte (ovum) and ends with the fusion of their pronuclei (the haploid nuclei of the sperm and ovum) and the mingling of their chr ...[text shortened]... that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being."
from Essentials of Human Embryology
A fertilized egg does not grow into a person unless there is a pregnancy where the fertilized egg implants in the mothers womb. Simple as that.
A fertilized egg does not grow into a person unless there is a pregnancy.
19 Jul 22
@kingdavid403 saidThey are different quotations.
This is the forth time you've posted this blue face. lol... I read it the first posted time.
19 Jul 22
@kingdavid403 saidThis does mean that life does not begin at conception.
A fertilized egg does not grow into a person unless there is a pregnancy.
19 Jul 22
@fmf said"Embryo: An organism in the earliest stage of development; in a man, from the time of conception to the end of the second month in the uterus."
Another perspective from the field of human biology that more or less converges with my personal belief:
from The Harper Collins Illustrated Medical Dictionary
19 Jul 22
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@fmf saidIn the view your proposing, ones genetic life history, it begins with the single cell (the egg). Simple as that.
This does mean that life does not begin at conception.
19 Jul 22
@fmf said"Embryo: The developing individual between the union of the germ cells and the completion of the organs which characterize its body when it becomes a separate organism.... At the moment the sperm cell of the human male meets the ovum of the female and the union results in a fertilized ovum (zygote), a new life has begun.... The term embryo covers the several stages of early development from conception to the ninth or tenth week of life."
Another perspective from the field of human biology that more or less converges with my personal belief:
from Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia.