Life Begins With a Dramatic Burst of Light

The Light That Was Dark

Researchers studying the fertilization of human eggs are barred by federal law from using actual sperm. Federal law rightly imposes particularly strong restrictions on experiments on humans. Nonetheless, using sperm enzymes researchers have confirmed that at the moment of fertilization the human egg, as with other species, emits a dramatic burst of light. As one newspaper put it, �Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg.� And:

Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing �fireworks� on film.

One of the researchers described the burst of light as �breathtaking.�

All of this reminds us of something we already knew. In spite of evolutionist�s attempts to hide the science, the light shines through. Even federal law testifies to the fact�the scientific fact�that life begins, not at birth, not at some arbitrarily and conveniently selected point in development, but at conception. That is not a political argument or a religious belief. It simply is the science.