It's not an opinion though: I make no claims regarding the superiority of another kind of life over others.
Claiming that one kind of life is not superior to another is an opinion.
You make such a claim. It's up to you to show it with evidence.
I need evidence in order to have an opinion?
I never stated that your opinion was wrong or in error. I only said that I could never agree with it.
You have your opinion and I have mine.
I believe that there is ample scriptural evidence for the idea that human beings are superior to all other forms of life on our planet.
They teach that we are the literal children of God.
I disagree with your assessment and logic. Firstly, potential life is not life at all.
Well, to be fair, I said "potential human life", not "potential life." I never said that there was a moment of "non-life" during the development of a human baby.
However, as I clarified in post #110, I said "potential" human life to include the idea that not all pregnancies come to term. They all have potential to be born, but not all of them are born.
That is what I meant by "potential." I never meant to say that the combination of an egg and sperm is not alive.
It's something made up to moralize people.
People have always been and will forever be moralized.
Either it's alive or it is not.
Either it is a human or it is not.
If finding a bacteria on Mars is the discovery of "life", then I don't think there should be any question about if what is growing in a woman's uterus is "life" or not.
Also, since no human female has ever given birth to anything other than another human being, I don't see how there could be any doubt about what is growing inside a woman's uterus.
This idea that people are "moralizing" this issue is an attempt to muddy the waters.
People without access to the same medical knowledge and technology do not question whether an unborn baby is alive or human. Yours is an argument of convenience, really.
Second, you have no evidence that the "ball of cells" counts as human.
Simple science and logic dictates the the combination of the 23 chromosomes from a human sperm and the 23 chromosomes from a human egg make an individual human being with 46 chromosomes.
The combination of a human sperm and a human egg has never made a football. Or a goose. Or anything other than another human being.
A simple DNA test would prove that it is indeed human.
I make the claim that being human requires experience.
That is your opinion, which I reject.
My two-month old son is just as human as I am. It does not matter if I have more experience than he does.
He was just as much a human baby when he was kicking my wife's bladder while in the womb than he is now.
I am first a child of God and He has given me a physical body.
I am now as much a child of God as I am a human male.
You cannot separate the two. They are components of who I am.
Water is not independent of either hydrogen or oxygen. A person is not independent of their body.
I'm fine with that as long as you understand that if you keep calling all my points opinions, then by all logic and reason your entire stance should be taken as such as well.
Obviously.