Between 1510 and 1512, Leonardo da Vinci drew the human fetus with startling and unprecedented accuracy.
According to Arizona State University’s Embryo Project Encyclopedia, Leonardo is regarded as “the very first in history to correctly depict the human fetus in its proper position within the womb. He was also the first to expertly draw the uterine artery and the vascular system of the cervix and vagina.”
Scientific advances, beginning with Leonardo and culminating in the ultrasound, have played no small part in helping us recognize the fetus’s human face.
[Embryology and scientific study of fetal development had taught us that much earlier, but nothing has been more dramatic for the skeptics than ultrasound images of the baby in the womb and all it is capable of.]
These chalk and ink images, then, should be seen as a minor milestone in the acknowledgment of our brotherhood with the unborn.
The new attention to Da Vinci's drawings of the fetus comes at the tailend of a week that has highlighted the cause of the unborn. That we even need to plead the casuse of the unborn in the heart of what is supposed to be the world's most sophisticated generation ever is truly absurd.
However, liberals and seculars who purport to be the only ones in the world who can actually 'think' - those who do not agree with their worldview are all idiots or benighted creatures - will openly deny scientific fact when it belies that worldview. (Look at their record on the global warming hypothesis.)
That stubborn denial is offensive to any person who truly thinks, and to all believers who hold life sacrosanct because it is a gift from God. It is far more offensive than the denial of the Holocaust by negationists is to Jews.
Every adult human being develops from a baby who is born, who in turn developed for nine months in the womb from that simple one-cell zygote that represents the fertilized egg, the physical reality that shows conception has taken place.
There is no discontinuity in that development, from the fertilized egg to the aggressive secular who refuses to recognize that he, like every other human being, began as what he calls 'a tissue blob' in the womb that is not even worthy of being considered a person. Next to the denial of God, this is the great denial of our time.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 30/01/2013 00:19]