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This seems to imply that we lack free will, and that everything is preordained.

God knows everything that will happen. He already knows who will be lost and who will be saved.
Who will be born and what they will do in life including their thoughts.

Psalm 139 also includes:
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.

I don't view his foreknowing as preordained. That would indicates some kind of arbitrary choosing and that isn't what God does. God wants all to be saved but he already sees those who have died, who are living and those yet to come as already saved or lost from the creation of the world. God is outside of time and not held to past, present and future. How exactly that works is not something for us to fully understand until we stand in his presence.
 
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Separate sharing the same DNA. Even if we go along with your little ploy, once they have separated, they both have their own DNA so are then both individual humans at that point.
The fact that they separate after conception is the complication which defeats the claim that life begins at conception.
 
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