Angel
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A simple procedure perhaps, but ending the life of an incipient self-conscious being resonates with cosmic complexity, or so it seems to this humanist.
And that may be the crux of our disagreement. Science is not a humanism.
The extinction of life, especial potentially self-conscious life, resonates with cosmic complexity, yes.Thanks.
However, your quoting Carl Sagan doesn't answer your implying that there are cosmic complexities associated with the loss of life resulting from abortion.
Request:
In your own words, explain cosmic complexities as they relate to loss of life that is associated with abortion...pretty please with sugar on it.
As I contemplate physical reality, there are four orders of mystery (phenomena that have no explanation).
The first-order mystery is the origin of the universe itself, the well-ordered universe, the cosmos.
The second-order mystery is the origin of life on earth.
The third-order mystery is the appearance of sentience in life forms.
The fourth-order mystery is the upsurge of consciousness.
Unless one attributes these mysteries to the intervention of some intelligent Force, they remain mysteries of the highest complexity and interrelatedness.
The universe is the necessary condition for life;
Life is the necessary condition for sentience.
Sentience is the necessary condition for consciousness.
To end the life of a potentially sentient and self-conscious being is to end a triple mystery of complex cosmic development.
Thus, abortion "resonates with cosmic complexity."