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Quote by: MerlinsByte Merlin...No , but If you were in the poultry business and had a dozen fertilized chicken eggs in the incubator the odds are that they would produce fuzzy little chicks which would grow and thrive. Anyone with common sense should know this, Even the not so bright ones.
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And you would also know that the early instructions for building those chicks came from the hen, but had to be included in the egg. In the human case, those early instructions would not be in the egg, because the egg would be inside a mother whose bodily secretions would guide that early development.
But those chicks would at some point develop their little bird brains and those brains would start to work. After that, they would have the potential to develop as far as chickens can.
And just the same, the developing human fetus starts developing nerve tissue fairly early, keeps going a builds a brain to receive impulses from those nerves; and at a certain point, about 22 weeks gestational, that brain boots up and starts working. After that point, a human person MIGHT develop, although we don't know enough to determine when one in fact does. Before that point, there can be no human person -- empty house, still being built from blueprints and with any alterterations occasioned by supplies (nutrients) actually delivered, nobody home yet. Don't bring out the welcome wagon at least until the brain waves are a coursing through that brain. And, yeah, it's a much-more interesting and valuable organism than one of those chickens.