"Baby" is a pet name for the fetus, though, just like it's a pet name for girlfriends sometimes. Does that mean that the fetus is actually a baby? Of course not. Otherwise, girlfriends would be babies as well.

Seriously, though, it's scientific fact that the being inside of a woman's uterus is a fetus until its birth. You can ignore that fact, but that doesn't make it any less true.
It's only scientific fact in Light of the fact they are not comparing thier finding with the Word of the Lord!
Scientific fact states 'fetus' do breathe (RESPIRATE) in the womb.. Just like a full grown man on life-support respirates.
Now, if they compared this with the Word of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures we might end up with a fair definition! =P
JGG said:
Zeena said:
Oh yea, there's gas exchange aight!
Artifical lungs are built for the express purpose of gas exchange!
Life REQUIRES breath!
I agree. You're trying to show that a fetus breathes. You haven't done that yet.
Nonesense! The definition of BREATHING includes the exchange of gases in the form of respirating!
Oh, he's taking oxygen aight! -->
- How does the fetus breathe through the mothers blood, especially when blood group is different, how come the blood does not get mixed up? How does oxygen get transferred?
The precursor cells of the human placenta and the trophoblasts first appear four days after fertilization and they differentiate into all the other cell types found in the human placenta. When fully developed, the placenta serves as the interface between the mother and the developing fetus. The placenta is critical for a successful pregnancy by mediating such critical steps as implantation, pregnancy hormone production, immune protection of the fetus, increase in maternal vascular blood flow into it, and delivery. Over the next few weeks the placenta begins to make hormones which control the basic physiology of the mother in such a way that the fetus is supplied with the necessary nutrients and oxygen needed for successful growth. The placenta also protects the fetus from immune attack by the mother, removes waste products from the fetus, induces the mother to bring more blood to the placenta, and near the time of delivery, produces hormones that matures the fetal organs in preparation for life outside of the uterus. The placenta is the fetus extension into the mother, where it functions as the interface between the two. Like the radiator of a car, which is a heat exchanger, the placenta is a nutrient and waste exchanger. The fetal circulation enters the placenta much like the water of an automobile engine enters the radiator via the umbilical arteries embedded within the umbilical cord. Once in the placenta, the fetal circulation branches into units called cotyledons, structures similar to inverted trees. The finest branches of the fetal circulation are made up of capillary loops within the chorionic villi. Once nutrients have been absorbed and waste products released, the fetal blood ultimately collects into the umbilical vein, where it returns to the fetus via the umbilical cord. If the fetal circulation is similar to the circulating water in an engine, the maternal circulation is analogous to the cool air rushing by the fine fins of the radiator. The maternal blood enters the placenta via the spiral arteries of the uterus. At the point were the spiral arteries make contact with the placenta, they end in open channels, fountaining maternal blood into the intervillous space. The intervillous blood is returned to the maternal circulation via drain-like uterine veins. In order to support the developing fetus, especially at term, up to 35% of the maternal blood flow courses through the intervillous space.
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Does a fetus breath? It receives oxygen through blood, just as a thirty year old person does. In the exchange of gases
A person, a full grown human being on a respirator recieves oxygen via this
same means.. He is alive!
JGG said:
Fire produces varying amounts of carbonmonoxide in gaseous form. So gas exchange does take place. Therefore, fire is a living being.
You said it, just don't expect me to agree with your assesment. From what I know [emphasis on the word KNOW, not knowledge handed down by men, but by the Spirit of God] is that bios [physical manifestions of life, not including the ELEMENTS] are fleshly, the elemental forms of life, yes I said LIFE, are soulical, and the gaseous forms of Life are spiritual
REFLECTIONS on the indicative nature of God in Christ Jesus.
FIRE has a different FORM of life than that of bios.
And cannot be lumped in when determining the nature of flesh!
Would you treat a migraine with a soda pop?
Soda pop is good for refreshment, but does nothing to ease ones pain.
JGG said:
Yeah, but carbon dioxide produced by humans is the byproduct of the tissue absorbing the oxygen. The mechanism is still the same. Oxygen is required to be converted to energy, the waste is given off as carbon dioxide.
Same process for a DIFFERENT life form, with DIFFERENT attributes!
It's not fleshy, and is of more worth than the fleshly, just as the gases which cause them to be are of more worth! For the body of fire cannot exist without oxygen, and niether can your body!
JGG said:
Zeena said:
SEE
But that's the mother doing the breathing. The mother is the one doing the gas exchange, and then passing the molecules on to the fetus. And as you have previously defined the capacity for gas exchange as a necessary characteristic of a living being, we can determine that a fetus is not breathing, and therefore not alive.
The mother is doing the breathing and the baby is doing the recieving!
Just as the mother is producing milk, and the baby is drinking it as an infant.. Relections, you see

Same life form, same process....