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    Richard Dawkins...

    "It's impossible to prove something doesn't exist." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52XsW6jD4eg&feature=relmfu
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    Do you believe in universal common descent?

    Unfortunately out understanding of genetics is nowhere near advanced enough to determine how similar they really are or what it would take for one species to become another at the genetic and molecular level (i.e. protein machines and DNA regulation and information processing).
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    Evolution

    What has been proven are minor micro-evolutionary changes. We don't as yet understand the relationship between genetics and phenotype. It may be that the idea of the DNA as a "master plan" is incorrect or at least over simplified. The 98% commonality with chimps is inaccurate and misleading...
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    A Thought Experiment

    It's clearly life at both points. The fact that it becomes 2 lives doesn't change the fact that it's still life.
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    Christianity taking hold in Asia

    YouTube - Van Ness Wu 吴建豪 Interview- 1040 Movie Hip Hop Pastor Documents Big Christian Movement in Asia 10/40 | Christianpost.com http://1040movie.com/ 100 million Christians in China, one of the biggest churches in the world in South Korea with 1 million members, and South Korea...
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    Peter Singer supports infanticide.

    Should This Be the Last Generation? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com "One of Benatar’s arguments trades on something like the asymmetry noted earlier. To bring into existence someone who will suffer is, Benatar argues, to harm that person, but to bring into existence someone who will have...
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    What doctors should be doing.

    Ah yes and we throw human life away as if it were nothing more than a few rocks into a pond. Besides we can get stem cells without embryos. Embryonic stem cells made without embryos | Reuters
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    What doctors should be doing.

    Yes, but part of my point is that the outrage seems to be only about the things you mention. There's hardly, if any, a mention of the inherent paradoxes of this behavior.
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    What doctors should be doing.

    The women getting abortions in the IVF article are getting an abortion because they decided after going through the procedure that they do not want a child at all.
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    What doctors should be doing.

    After IVF, Abortion? What Does This Say? | Christianpost.com From the article, "One of the most respected British newspapers has just revealed that approximately 80 abortions are performed in the UK each year, terminating pregnancies that came about by IVF treatments." "Professor Bill...
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    What doctors should be doing.

    Children's of Minnesota - Micro Preemies Outcomes At this hospital, here in Minnesota, the doctors are working to improve the survival rate of "micro-preemies", babies born at about 22 weeks. Part of this short story states that, "Among the significant changes in practices that were developed...
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    Peter Singer supports infanticide.

    Actually there have been doctors that performed abortions that have witnessed babies trying to fight back during an abortion and this caused them to become pro-life.
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    Peter Singer supports infanticide.

    Ah yes, but it can also be applied to a fetus and yet it isn't. Why is that?
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    Where Can We Come To Agreement?

    Thou shalt not kill is absolute, but sometimes there are difficult choices to make. War is a difficult one, and to me, it is extremely difficult to justify. Self-defense is an exception for many reasons, but how many people would kill the person they are defending themselves against rather that...
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    Where Can We Come To Agreement?

    Exactly. However, when a concession is proposed, the side that the concession is being asked of has the right to say no and explain why they are not willing to make that particular concession. If the side proposing a concession of the other side cannot come up with a substantive counter argument...
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