(Embryos are "human", but they're not PEOPLE. How can you consider it to be a person when it doesn't have a brain?)
When exactly do you think the pregnant woman swallows that magical vitamin that adds the brain, since you mystifyingly believe it's not in the first cell?
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OK, I'm going to ignore the fact that there's these things called stem cells, and also ignore that 'bmmg' was the noise that came out my mouth and point out the fact your mother obviously didn't get the memo about the brain pill.
That first cell (or joining of the first two cells, actually) has no brain. It also has no bones, no lungs, no heart, no freaking pancreas. All of those develop MUCH LATER. In bmmg39's case, the brain development may be delayed indefinitely.
Speaking of vegetables, if this "all in the first cell" argument were valid one could, for example, eat a tomato seed and get all the benefits of eating an actual tomato.
A brain cell is already specialized, therefore it cannot become a liver cell or a heart cell or a skin cell etc. You know, one of the cell that make up the other organs that your body needs. It is, and always will be a brain cell. So NO, the 1st cell is NOT a brain cell.
Unless you are suggesting that the 1st cell HAS a brain in it. If you are, well that level of stupid I won't even respond to.
Wow! I had no idea I had so many BFFs! BFFs who don't understand the first thing about human reproductive biology, but you can't have everything. I've explained to people much more with it than you all that everything that constitutes a human being develops from that first cell -- that only cell division takes place from that point forward (with the help of a hospitable environment and nutrition, which we all still require) -- and that anyone denying this must believe in spontaneous generation -- but I wonder if I wouldn't be wasting my time trying to get these points across to you.
P.S. -- I'm an agnostic, not a "fundie," but I know you all get off on character assassination in lieu of addressing people's arguments.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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