A new iBook is a really stunning tool to show the unborn. Conception to Birth: The Visual Guide to Your Pregnancy uses photography and animation to go into the womb and follow the developmen of the pre-born. You can view and rotate 3D images, interact with the pictures to get more information, and play video of very high quality.
The book is published by The Visual M.D. It's not necessarily a pro-life book. There's one spot in the text where the unborn child is refered to as the "child to be." And medication is recommended to calm the mother and prepare for birth. These are small portions of the entire book.
What you can't ignore are the pictures that introduce you to a precious unborn human person.
The images show you the progression from fertizational to birth. It illustrations in remarkable pictures that development of the baby in the early stages when many are being abortion. (It does not mention abortion or show images of abortion.) It introduces us to the reality of the child that is at stake in aboriton.
Evem though the child may not look "human" at the early stages, it's what a human being looks like at that stage of development - just like the elderly person doesn't look like he did as a child. But it shows the consistent development from beginning to birth and illustrates that there's no differentiation at any point after fertilization that makes it any more human than it is from that intial moment.
It's a beautiful book with remarkable images that help answer the only question that matters: What is the unborn?
The definition of what makes us human, where our personhood is located, what grants us thought, what generates our emotions, and where our sentience lies is clearly defined, and thus where “that” is found, “human” is found, “person” is found, “we” are found, and things really do become quite clear when we realize where “it” is. Where the genome is, We are. Where the genome is, You are. Where the genome is, I am. That is the floor, that is the ceiling, and that is all the supporting walls in between. Every bit of it. Every bit of I. Every bit of You. Every bit of We.
“DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.” (Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life)
We just are the music; it is the music, those inexplicable notes which come from we know not where, which speak of we know not what. Yes, it is that music, those lovely notes, that unique melody which has all the illusion of composition and all the feel of harmony wherein our voice is irrevocably pinpointed and out of which our song thus sings. We know songs do not sing; we know sings do not song, but so it is, and the how of it we cannot see. It just is. We call it Genome. Nature calls it nothing. An effervescence of seeming synchronization; a cul-de-sac of alleged orchestration.
That tiny little universe we call humanity is found, every bit of it, there inside of that eerie double helix. It’s uncanny. That Ceiling. That Floor. Those walls. All if it. All of us. The song that sings. The sing that songs. In error we claim to sing our song and in error we brand the singing Human. In truth the song sings; in truth the former determines the latter. It is the song and not the singing which is real, which is us. All else is illusion. We have never sung a song. Not ever. Where the Human Genome is, the Human just is.
Posted by: scbrownlhrm | November 21, 2012 at 03:58 AM
@scbrownlhrm...your comment to this post was the weirdest thing Ive ever read...that includes green eggs and ham.
Posted by: Scott | November 22, 2012 at 12:52 AM
Scott,
Sorry. I may address it here or elsewhere, but, it seems posts are not taking this AM.
Posted by: scbrownlhrm | November 22, 2012 at 05:55 AM