A question on conservatives and science

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3. or if they can twist it to serve any of their arguments, e.g., the moment of conception.

that whole dna combination thing. even though dna wasn't discovered until the 1800s (and not well understood until much later), apparently god said in the bible that the moment a new human is created is when sperm and egg unite.

sperm, not human;
egg, not human;
sperm + egg = human.
no placenta or incubation required.
no brain, no mind, but a soul.
sperm and eggs separately don't have souls, ha, ha, that would just be silly.


anyway, that moment of conception, that moment that the "blueprint" for development is fixed, that's a tiny bit of scientific understanding that they can latch on to. to the exclusion of all else, such as anything science has to say about viability, never mind any scientific understanding of the fact that the pregnant woman is without question human....