Koch-Hershenov Rose
Department of Philosophy, Niagara University, Niagara University, New York 14109, USA.
J Med Philos. 2006 Apr;31(2):139-64. doi: 10.1080/03605310600588673.
From fertilization to approximately the sixteenth day of development, human embryonic cells are said to have the capacities of totipotency and monozygotic twinning, both of which are problematic to a theory of ensoulment at fertilization. In this article I will address the problems which these capacities pose to such a theory and present an interpretation of the biological data which renders ensoulment at fertilization more plausible. I will then argue that not only is an ensoulment theory consistent with current biological data on the human embryo, but it may offer an explanation for the phenomencon of monozygotic twinning.
从受精到发育大约第十六天，人类胚胎细胞被认为具有全能性和单卵孪生的能力，这两者对于受精时灵魂赋予的理论来说都是有问题的。在本文中，我将探讨这些能力给这样一种理论带来的问题，并给出对生物学数据的一种解释，这种解释使受精时的灵魂赋予更具合理性。然后我将论证，灵魂赋予理论不仅与当前关于人类胚胎的生物学数据一致，而且它可能为单卵孪生现象提供一种解释。
