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The incessant rants of "its a human being, its a person" probably will never stop, part because it would be an admission of being wrong and part because some simply lack the knowledge and understanding what that single cell is.
Let me just point out some of the more obvious pitfalls of the single cell human being theory.
IF that single cell is a person and I will use person in this post to have the same meaning as human being, it is just shorter to type, after the first division are there two human beings? Keep in mind that the two resulting cells are identical and have no coordinated functions as a complex organism does. That coordinated function will not exist till much later in development. So what makes it a person? What if it will become twins? How does one person become two or three or even more persons?
Since all mammalian organisms are organisms because they maintain homeostasis how does the initial cell do that and with what organs?
Looking forward to rational and supported explanations.
Let me just point out some of the more obvious pitfalls of the single cell human being theory.
IF that single cell is a person and I will use person in this post to have the same meaning as human being, it is just shorter to type, after the first division are there two human beings? Keep in mind that the two resulting cells are identical and have no coordinated functions as a complex organism does. That coordinated function will not exist till much later in development. So what makes it a person? What if it will become twins? How does one person become two or three or even more persons?
Since all mammalian organisms are organisms because they maintain homeostasis how does the initial cell do that and with what organs?
Looking forward to rational and supported explanations.