God always creates souls at conception

I'll start by pointing out that mere claims spouted by Religions tend to be unreliable, when those claims involve things about the physical universe. The classic case is the notion that the Earth is at the Center of Creation, which was first found to be flawed by Galileo, and all the evidence gathered since simply bolstered his case. But can Religions admit they are wrong without centuries going by? Hah! Can they learn from their mistakes? Hah, again! Because, if they had learned something from the Galileo debacle, they would never have made Official Pronouncements about when God creates souls for humans, before all the facts were in! My first argument for why God won't always create souls at conception is is based on the phenomenon of "twinning". htt.....ww.wonderquest.com/TwinsTrigger.htm (NOTE: I modify web addresses to avoid being damaged by the debate.org software. Copy it to a blank browser page address bar and replace the initial dots with standard characters like "p://w".) When conception occurs, only one human organism exists, the single-celled "zygote". After four or five days of cell-division it leaves the egg as a "blastocyst". It is possible for the blastocyst to break apart into separate human organisms, yielding identical twins or even identical triplets. So, if God creates souls at conception, where did the "extra" souls come from, when a blastocyst breaks apart? Remember, an immortal soul can't be affected by a purely physical process such as blastocyst-breakage. Either only one of an identical set of twins or triplets has a soul, or God has to specially re-visit the situation, and create at least one more soul, independently of a conception-event. Also, keep in mind that no human knew until last century the details of when twinning happens. But God will have known the truth all along, no matter what Religions had to say about it. Meanwhile, God is supposed to be super-smart, as well as super-knowledgeable. God should therefore know whether or not some brand-new zygote will later become a broken blastocyst --or, if God doesn't bother to directly perceive the future about such things, God can still make a highly accurate statistical analysis, based on such things as the thickness of the ovum's shell, which directly affects the probability of blastocyst-breakage while escaping from that shell. So, wouldn't it simply be more smart/efficient for God to wait until that happens, before creating any of the souls for those twins/triplets? But if God wisely/efficiently waits, even if only for cases in which God knows in advance that the blastocyst will break, then I have made my case. God does not always create souls at conception! My next argument is based on a phenomenon known as "chimerism". This genuine and strange biological phenomenon was only discovered in recent decades to be more than mythological. As extremely relevant background information, you should watch a documentary, first aired on the Discovery Health Channel, titled "I Am My Own Twin". Here is a description: htt.../allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/have-you-seen-184626.html Chimerism can only happen at the blastocyst stage (two blastocysts from two different egg-fertilizations combine to become one single organism). God has certainly known about chimerism for millions of years, at least (mammals have been giving birth to fraternal twins for much longer than that). Meanwhile, Religions stupidly make Pronouncements before all the facts are in.... For humans, whenever fraternal twins are conceived, there is a chance that only one human body will be born. That body will contain two complete sets of human DNA; neither blastocyst dies when they merge. So, either there are humans walking around that have two souls (! --which one is in charge, for Judgement purposes???), or God does not always create souls at conception, because of the chance that two separate egg-fertilizations will yield just one overall human body, at the blastocyst stage, four or five days after conception. The preceding can also "make my case" in this Debate. My next argument is based on the known fact that not every conception naturally leads to a live birth. One such "failure mode" is common for older women, who tend to produce eggs that have thicker shells than younger women. Sometimes the blastocyst fails to break out of the shell, so it dies. htt.....ww.advancedfertility.com/ivf-egg-pictures.htm God will know that, of course. Question: What does a soul gain from such a short-life experience? Also, keep in mind that if God chose to do so, God could create a soul without any conception whatever occurring. What exactly makes such a short "human life" so special that God would create a soul for that conception, instead of just creating a soul with no conception? Now consider one of humanity's close relatives, the chimpanzee. Females of that species will also create eggs that have varying thicknesses, and sometimes those shells will be too thick for blastocysts to escape. Just suppose for a moment that God decided to create a soul for such a doomed chimpanzee conception.... What is the difference in "life experiences" between fertilization and death, of a doomed human conception and the equivalent chimpanzee conception? What about a doomed rat-conception? My point is that if God really wants souls to experience even such short lives as would occur between conception and failure-to-escape from a thick-shelled egg, then God can take advantage of the existence of this essentially identical phenomenon in all mammals, not just humans. Which would make all those mammals persons, right? Except, of course, they all died long before birth. For them, God would only be creating souls for doomed conceptions(!), allowing all the rest to remain mere animals. The preceding is a "reductio ad absurdum" argument; God is smarter than that. So, if God knows that some human conception is doomed, at least in the very early stages ... here are three more very-early failure modes: 1. Even before attempting to break out of the egg, the fertilized egg must successfully undergo cell division several times. If there is a flaw in the DNA responsible for this process, it will die. And God, of course, will know all about any flaws in the DNA. 2. The timing of the conception is a factor. A woman who frequently has sex can easily have sperm in the Fallopian Tubes at the time ovulation occurs, and conception will take place near the ovary. The time it takes the zygote to travel down the Fallopian Tube, toward the uterus, is the same first few days of cell-division. Thus the blastocyst emerges about the same time it reaches the uterus. However, a woman who rarely has sex can have an unfertilized egg almost reach the uterus before conception occurs. In this case the organism will pass out of the uterus before the blastocyst emerges, and it will die. God will know that, of course. 3. The womb has a coating of mucus, that protects it from bacteria. The blastocyst must penetrate the mucus coating to reach a place where it can implant, but sometimes the coating is too thick to penetrate. So it dies, instead. And God will know that, too. Based on the preceding reductio-ad-absurdum argument, it is very logical that God won't bother to create souls for such doomed-early conceptions. Which again makes my case in this Debate. I could perhaps now tie the preceding to the overall Abortion Debate, because if God can predict that some human conception will be doomed by abortion, why bother creating a soul for it? Well, it doesn't matter just yet; there is another factor involved that I'll mention later on. I have more arguments. including rationales for waiting until birth, for soul-creation. But I'm out of space at the moment.