Life in the womb of Mars

No, I will not tell you about David Bowie. First of all, what is considered life? Maybe you could say that any simple form or organism is considered life, or maybe you think in a more complex and conscious organism. What I want is to take both points of view and make the same comparison, but in two different topics.

Scientists have always tried to prove the existence of life in other planets. Some of them say that the only thing you need for life to exist is methane, which consists of one carbon and four hydrogen atoms, simple, right? And they have tried to find it in the outer space. They affirm that finding that molecule means finding life. Nevertheless, some other men of science think that life is more complex than that, and that molecule only provides the chance for living organisms to exist.

And now, let’s see it from another point of view; the human life. The same scientists that assure that methane means life are supporters of the morning-after pill. Which basically eliminates the zygote, preventing the embryo to fully develop. Why is it that they do not consider that same zygote represents life in the same way that an even more simple molecule of methane? I leave you the answer to you.