So first off, let me thank you for politely explaining your position on a commonly divisive topic. I did not hazard assuming I understood your belief system, other than that it was probably different from my own, and that this was alone sufficient cause for dialog.

"In this kind of a situation, you need to make a distinction between one having the potential of becoming an independently sustaining human being, and one that already is...go for the kid."

With all due respect, I find it curious that an extreme circumstance is the only requirement for you to make the distinction between an actual life and a potential life. If I understood your position rightly, the zygotes were just as alive as the child but when forced to make a choice between the two, the zygotes suddenly lost the right to live and, in some sense, died even before they were consumed by fire.

In my opinion, the issue at hand is not whether we should create human lives for the purposes of experimentation, simply because zygotes are already a byproduct of the fertility industry and, as James points out, terminated by the thousands anyway. The issue at hand is whether one can make an ethical distinction between a cluster of cells, which have potential to become a human, and a cluster of cells in which that human potential has already been actualized. If we draw no distinction between the two, then it is only proper that the same natural rights apply to both.

Which would be my answer as well.

Now let's suppose that it was a hundred petri dishes, each stacked on top of the last, and that for whatever reason, each dish holds a thousand zygotes. Would you make the same choice? If so, why did you decide to sacrifice a hundred thousand lives for the one?

This fellow reminds me of a David Cross character.

As Wumpus believes that a human life begins at the moment of fertilization, please oblige me in answering the following hypothetical question...

If a fire breaks out in a fertility clinic and you only have time to save either a petri dish full of zygotes or a two-year old child, which do you save?

The road in question being located between Poorlydonetown and Notfunnysville... downvote!

dad?

Steve is obviously stoned.

gotta love explosions in the sky. thanks for the clip!

And one wonders why he has not found the special one...

oh
my
god

Why shouldn't serious things be funny?

I submitted this one because I thought it was cleverly done, albeit a little redundant now.

Well done. You've even got a kitten in the sifter for the cute channel icon!

Can't wait to see RSS feeds for the channels, too.

a terrible show, though...

The song she was actually playing was The Shins - Oh, Inverted World.

What's funny is that only the first eleven digits of 1 (888) BIBLENOW are significant.

"WTF! THIS ISN'T 1 (888) BIBLE-NO! ARGG!"