Delayed Hominization
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چکیده
I would suggest that the claim that "the preembryo is not a human being" does not enjoy probability. To my mind the arguments put forth to substantiate the claim fall short because they do not fully appropriate the biological activity of the preembryo, on the one hand, and because of an exaggeration of the importance of certain biological data, on the other. Instead, the case could be made that it is probable that the preembryo is a human being, since it is an organism (i.e. individual living substance) of the human species (i.e. of a rational nature). It is difficult to find certitude in biology, and even more difficult to apply biology with certitude to theology, but I find the data and their application persuasive enough to suggest that recent Catholic claims of delayed hominization cannot be used to justify proposed action, whether from the probabiliorist, aequiprobabilist, or even probabilist, traditions of Catholic moral theology.
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