“…scientifically speaking, when a sperm and egg comes together, what happens? Is death created?”
If fact, he provides answers from multiple perspectives: mathematical, patriarchal, cytological, forensical, genetical and developmental.
As an added bonus you also get the answer to this thought problem:
if a fire breaks out in a fertility clinic, who do you save — a Petri dish with five blastula or a two year-old child?.
I didn’t realize that this was even a possible issue but apparently it creates a challenge for some.
Oh yea, read the comment thread as well…always full of good material at PZ’s place.