| You opined, "I do not see how one can claim from a purely scientific perspective that a zygote is an entity when it has not yet formed into one." Well, Rachel, that's like asking how can a toddler be an adult, it hasn't gone through puberty yet? The zygote you were is as real an age along the continuum of your lifetime as your puberty is an age along that continuum. As noted previously, if the zygote were not already the individual life, the genetic tests performed upon zygotes would be too non-specific for application to the individual being diagnosed. |