2) I quote biologist Scott Gilbert from this excellent RationalWiki post: <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/When_does_life_begin%3F">http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/When_does_life_begin%3F</a> <???Until I read that, I really had NO idea that fertilization was a long drawn out process that was more likely to end in a dead zygote