You are hung up on a word "conception" of a sperm connecting with an egg. There are other means of creation. Such cell division occurs naturally as well as these scientists unnatural inducement.
At the moment of creation, it becomes a unique being. That being can be subdivided but that becomes the creation of something new. The old still remains.
30 posted on 04/24/2009 7:11:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
(IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)