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    If Adam dies at twinning, Adam's death leaves no earthly ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The claim that death requires earthly remains is undermined by the twinning scenario.

    If Adam dies at twinning, Adam's death leaves no earthly remains since Adam's biological material continues in both twins.

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    References to identity in this debate come from objectors to this argument, who apply the argument from fission to a real life version of it, namely, twinning. An embryo might split any time generally before the two-week point in fetal development, and those two embryos could develop into fully formed infant twins. The question for the advocate of the above argument to consider is, in such a case, what happens to the original human being, the embryo we will call Adam? There are only three possib

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