I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.