Another pointing out that a flower is the sex organs of the plant. It’s part of a bigger whole, not an independent entity wandering around.
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So saying “a seed isn’t a flower” is true. But trying to use it in comparison with “an embryo isn’t a baby” is like saying “your fallopian tubes aren’t a baby” or “Your sperm isn’t a baby.” Which is also true, but doesn’t really make sense. You might as well argue “an acorn isn’t a 100-year-old oak tree.” Which is like, “Um… yeahhhh?” They’re the same organism, but at different stages of development. (Versus a flower, which is merely part of an organism, and is only in existence for a specific period of that organism’s life cycle.)
You can see it best with fruit trees. Plum blossoms in February turn into plums in July; orange blossoms in April turn into oranges in December; apple blossoms in March turn into apples in October. (Which isn’t to say they magically appear at those times---- they continue to develop throughout the seasons in the places where the blossoms fell, and are finally mature after a long wait.)
Plum blossoms aren’t plums— but you don’t get plums if they don’t survive the blossom stage, as happens with late freezes, or violent storms, or high winds, or whatever. And you don’t get cuddly Anne Geddes-type babies for calendar shoots if they don’t survive the embryonic stage. Life doesn’t just hopscotch across its development and go straight to cute and cuddly.
The same thing is true for “an egg isn’t a chicken.” Well… yeah. An egg isn’t a chicken. But the human equivalent of the egg isn’t the embryo, it’s the ovum. And if you have a fertilized chicken egg… a baby chick will grow inside of it, and eventually hatch, and eventually grow into a pullet or a cockerel, and eventually grow into a hen or a rooster.
The same process is roughly true for humans, although the details are different because we’re mammals— the fertilized ovum develops through its stages-- starting off as a diploid zygote-- continuing into a blastocyst, developing into an embryo, developing into a fetus, eventually being born as a full-term baby, developing into a toddler, developing into a schoolkid, developing into a preteen, developing into a teenager, developing into a young adult… The organism is the same, but we use different words to mark different stages of development. So, in one sense, yes, an embryo (implantation - 8 weeks post-conception) isn’t a “baby”, if you’re using “baby” to mean “a 45-week old human being who’s very cute.” But in another sense, an embryo is a “baby” if you’re using the word “baby” to mean “an immature human being who isn’t fully developed.” Which stage, for some people, lasts for about 30 or 40 years…
