For example the “Law of New Life” states that all new life begins with old DNA. Of course the importance of the law lies in the fact that nothing new is brought into the new life. The DNA of the old life contains all the information that is needed to control the formation of the new life. All information that is required to form the new life is brought into the new life by the old DNA.

And the “Law of Life” states that it is impossible to tell if a new life will live through birth. The first corollary of that law is that it is impossible to tell if the new life has enough human DNA for it to live as a human. So this law makes it clear that we cannot tell if the life is alive or human until it is born.

And the “Law of Conception” says that most new human life dies before birth. The importance of this law is that it makes it clear that at conception there is not the creation of live, but the process of death. For example a living egg and sperm are brought into the conceptus and most often they die. It is not life at conception, but death.
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Yes we now have 2 worms. But the question was which is the original?

Two new worms, really? If instead of allowing both halves to regenerate I were to immediately destroy one half after cutting the worm in two. Would you not now say that the one half that remained and regenerated the missing half was the original?

Certainly you would not say in the case of a lizard that lost a tail and grew a new one was not the original lizard but a new one.

Let us take monozygotic twins as an example. According to the life begins at conception “theory” when the egg was fertilized a human came into existence. Perhaps a soul was Fedex’d into the zygote. But something goes wrong with the replication process and the zygote splits into two that now grows to become two separate “organisms” which half gets the soul? Or is another soul sent to the same address? Maybe they share the soul. Half a soul, half a human? Perhaps they time share?

A fertilized zygote can be split and split and split each split creating a new “organism.” If an organisms life began at conception then how do we end up with multiples post conception?

It has been demonstrated that DNA belonging to one species can be introduced into the egg of another.

What happens if we were to take human DNA and place it into the egg of a chimpanzee or gorilla and implanted that egg into the egg donor and allowed it to come to term. Is the child a human or a chimp or gorilla?

Now suppose prior to placing it in the egg we removed the DNA we have in common and replaced it with DNA from the donor mother is it a human? The offspring would be indistinguishable from a “human.” Does the 5 or 6% difference hide the human?

Is that where the soul resides?

Humanness is a subjective not a biological question.

This changes according to social-political beliefs.

i.e. A slave was determined to be 2/3 of a human.
American-indians were at times argued to not be human.

People are arguing for human rights to be extended to whales.

The fertilized egg bears no quality that makes it human other than it’s DNA. But all of ones cells contain ones DNA. Are all our cells human organisms? They are all capable of producing individuals through cloning.

A chimpanzee has DNA that is more than 95% identical to a human so is a chimpanzee 95% human? That is much better than a slaves 66.66%

The definition of what is life is evolving as we get a better idea of what is possible. But it is still not settled.

What is human is a question that is far from being understood. The human genome project mapped a particular sequence. Are we more or less human by the degree to which we deviate from that sequence? No two people are going to have identical sequences even identical twins will have different mutations.

Miscarriages often result from mangled genetics are these human if only 95% of the DNA is uncorrupted? Suppose that only the 95% we share with chimpanzees are the uncorrupted genes, is the miscarriage both chimpanzee and human?

Is a siamese twin one or two organisms? The use of the term organism is one of convenience. In order to understand concepts we use categories and nomenclature to make things intelligible to one and other but the naming has no effect on what it is we are naming.

Arbitrary cut off points for the beginning of one organisms existence are just that arbitrary. The growth of a human being is like the evolution of life where one may pick an arbitrary point but on either side of the continuum there is no special moment that makes all things different.

After 7 years or there about all cells within our body have been replaced, but we are the sum of those cells so after 7 years are we a different organism? A different person? Am I the same person today that I was yesterday? Or am I a different person?