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Originally posted by elfstar
At what moment is a person endowed with a soul? Presumably there is no soul involved before fertilization, but there is one at birth. Sometime in between the soul must be introduced. When do you believe this happens? At fertilization? At viability? At birth?
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Personally I dont really believe in a Soul. But the problem of your question is independent from that believe. The problem is, the human mind seems to have difficulties with the concept of "becoming", the human mind always searches for define point at which something happens. Be it "is human" or "has a soul". In both cases I think you cannot tell at some point
now has a soul/ is a human and a second before that it hasn't/isn't.
The two cell merging togehter are not a human being, but the baby is of course human, somewhere between this two points in time these two cells became a human being. And I think this is also true for the soul