@Seer Travis Truman,
Seer Travis Truman;68274 wrote:
2. Even fully grown adults have a lot of inactive DNA.
Fully grown adults are not skin cells,
Yeah, that's what I've been saying the whole time.
Quote: and those inactive DNA parts are inactive in all the cells, whereas a hair has inactive parts that the organism does not.
You're begging the question...you're assuming the truth of the very thing being argued and launching an argument based on that assumption.
Quote:You asked "why is a barber not tried for mass murder for cutting my hair". You tried to say that a hair (not human cell) was an anlogy to killing the organism as a whole. Q : Are you saying that a "foetus" is not a whole organism, just a part of one? Yes or no, ff?
I see, it must be "
bring up questions that were already answered a month ago", day.
Quote:That is a reply, not a rebuttal. You did not know the scientific reason why hair was not a human organism even though it had human DNA.
It was a rhetorical question! Do you know what a rhetorical question is? Apparently not.
Quote: You ARE trying to argue that a skin cell is analogoues with a zygote simply because we rfer to both as cells, where they are 2 different things.
I can list a number of reasons why a skin cell or hair cell is not a human being and sadly enough most of those reasons also apply to zygote.
Yes a zygote has human DNA, that's been established, but other than that the zygote is essentially --just a cell! It does not have a soul, it does not have rights, it does not have memory, and it does not feel pain.
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3. My argument was that it wasn't a "human being", a cell cannot be a human being, because human beings have inter-working systems, whereas the cell is just a cell.
A cell is not a human being, ff. But a zygote is not like any other "cell", because it has all 46 choromosomes,
Most cells do have 46 chromosomes.
fail!
Quote: and all the DNA active.
This is incorrect. A zygote does not have all of it's DNA active. No human being or human cell on earth has all of it's DNA active.
Quote:Again, you are trying to equate "cells" such as skin cells as being analogous to the zygote. They share a label, that is all. That is just a language term, not a scientific fact.
No it's a matter of structure.
> Does a cell have a brain, arms, and legs?
> Does a human being have a membrane or a nucleus?
Besides DNA what does a zygote and a human being have in common?
Quote:Cells are not genetically human, ff. None of them are.
I think you should tell that to a Crime Scene Investigator and then see how hard they laugh at you.
Quote: By your reasoning, if we can find something that "does not fit", then it is false.
huh?
Quote: That is what you claim, and yet your analogy does not fit between a zygote and a cell at any practicle level.
A zygote is a cell.
Quote:You ARE trying to argue that a zygote is not human, dont try and claim you dont.
I've been constantly saying the exact opposite. Do you listen?
I've been distinguishing between a human and a human being.
Human (Adjective)= something with the likeness of or characterized by human beings
Human being (Noun)= a person.
Quote:4. This is just silly, if by the arguers point we are human because we have 46 chromosomes then those with downs-syndrome aren't human by this man's logic.
No, ff. Every human being has 46 chromosomes,
WRONG!
many people with downs syndrome have 47 chromosomes
Down syndrome: Definition from Answers.com
Quote: where as sperm etc has only 23. That shows us that sperm is not genetically human. It cannot be argued that sperm is a whole organism because some people have down's syndrome.
Yes it can, because the number of chromosomes does not determine if someone is a person or not.
Quote:Yes, there are exceptions to the rule, but there is a REASON to account for these exceptions. Whereas, your agument cannot do same. In downs syndrome, the person has a known genetic defect that causes him or her to have three copies of a chromosome #21, given them an extra chromosome.
That is accounted for, ff.
Yes, we know
WHY some people have extra chromosomes, but that doesn't justify your exclusion.
We also know
WHY sperm and eggs have 23 chromosomes, so why can't we exclude them as well?
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They dont REALLY have an extra NEW choromome, just 2 extra copies of the same human chromosome. That is a specific and technical exception, that has a specific reason as to why, unlike your attempt to pretend a zygote is not genetically human.
No, there is only 1 extra, which is why they have 47 and not 48 chromosomes
This is caused by nondisjunction of the sperm or egg.
But whatever the cause I don't see how this justifies it for exclusion.
Quote:Problem : By your suggested reasoning that chromosomes cannot be used to determine species, you would have to contend that sperm is a whole human organism, because you cannot exclude sperm as a whole organism by account of the number of choromosomes it has. Yet sperm is clearly not the whole organism. Well?
No the sperm is not a human being for other reasons, it does not have have various interworking biological systems, it does not have a heart, or a brain, it does not feel pain, it does not have memory etc... the same reasons why a zygote is not a human being.
Also note that there are other species that do in fact also have 46 chromosomes, should we consider the European hare and Mountain Beaver are as human beings as well?
according to Dana Krempels, Ph.D. at allexperts.com
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It is not the *number* of chromosomes that determines a species' identity, but the *information* encoded therein. Chromosome number is relevant to evolution only in that it may allow us to determine whether closely related species may have differentiated, in part, due to chromosomal mutations that may affect chromosome number."
Quote:That is not a succint reply, ff. That is a cop-out and we both know it. You are trying to contend that the science od determining species based on chromosomes is false, even though YOU used it against carico about the fossils.
We
don't determine species by the "number" of chromosomes, read the reply above.
Your understanding of taxonomy is desiring.
Quote:6. Interact? Does you suppose DNA communicates with other strands of DNA? How do you determine if the DNA is "interacting"? How does DNA interact? Does it send out little radio signals, or is it just psychic?
1) It constantly replicates itself. Mother never replicates a WombTrappedLifeForms DNA.
2) Every scientist and biology journal is the world PROVES that DNA in a single organism interacts with the organism. The fact that all the cells in the WTLF and mother "ignore" each other should tell you something.
You didn't answer my questions.
Quote:Since your pretend to know biology
I am no expert, but I know a hell of a lot more than you do.
You didn't know that some people have 47 chromosomes.
You didn't know what either mitosis or meiosis was.
You didn't know how asexual organisms reproduced.
You didn't know that body cells have inactive parts of DNA (until you read that website)
You didn't know that fully grown adults also have inactive DNA
You didn't know that clones have identical DNA or how clones are made.
You didn't know what nondisjunction was.
You still don't know how taxonomists determine different species
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(even though you did not realise that a human hair was not genetically human and not anlogoes to an entire ogranism)
And yet you continually demonstrate that you have no understanding of what a rhetorical question is. Yes, continue to parade your ignorance.
The argument made was that the of the mother should Interact with that of the child.
Quote:Nor does so mething have to be a body part to be part of the body. EX: mucus.
A part of the body and a body part are the same thing
No they are not.
A body part is an organized structure of the same or similar cells that makeup one of the functions of the body.
EX: eyeballs, fingers, heart, bones etc...
whereas a "part of the body" is something that makes up the body but does not necessarily fall into the category listed above.
Quote: to the point in question in that mucus is ALSO not a whole human organism, ff.
Mucus is nether a human being nor a body part.
Quote:What you do is make and endless stream of false claims, ff. The abortion claim is never justified.
Why because you strongly disagree?
Quote:PS - After I answer the 2nd half, how bout answering why the mother's own immune sytem identfies and attacks the WTLD as foreign?
Yeah, those are called miscarriages. Miscarriages happen much later after the development of the zygote.
Nice try though.
Here is an [SIZE="4"]A+[/SIZE] for your effort.
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