care-net.org
2025-01-29
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made... --Psalm 139:13-14
From a scientific point of view, the moment of conception is awe-inspiring. Dr. William Lile, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, describes this process as miraculous. He passionately believes that each person is created in the image of God at the moment of conception.
For someone who has delivered 4,000 babies, the question of "When does life begin?" is not just a philosophical question--it's a scientific question.
Dr. Lile explains that when the DNA from the sperm and the DNA from the egg come together as one cell, that one cell is genetically unique from mom and dad and the other seven billion people on the planet. At that one cell stage, the blueprints of life are already laid out.
That living cell will divide into two, four, eight, 16, 32, 64 cells... As adults, we are comprised of about 60 trillion cells. Dr. Lile said, "What's unique is that our DNA, our genetics, never change. If you do a DNA test on somebody who is 90-years old, it will exactly match when they were just one cell in their mother's womb."