I know they claim we are not apes or monkeys, but it's pretty obvious we are animals, right?
2006-06-07 08:35:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, not obvious. Human Beings are unique creations.
If you were to agree with Creationists like me, you would be of the belief that Human Beings are created in the image of God and that we are not related to other creatures (especially since we are supposed to have dominion over the creatures of the earth).
Hope that helps.
2006-06-07 08:39:09 · answer #1 · answered by Mister Bob the Tomato 5 · 8⤊ 5⤋
Somewhat. If you mean things that move about, respire, and reproduce, then yes we are animals.
However, creationists make a distinction between beasts and men. The Bible says that we are given dominion over the beasts and the fowls of the air and of the fish of the sea. So technically, while we are animals, we are not beasts, we are above the other animals.
And by the way, dogs are actually of the biblical kind that would consist of wolves, dogs are more (genetically) specialized breeds of wolves, you could say.
2006-06-07 08:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by Soga 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Science does not state that humans evolved from monkeys or apes but that humans, monkeys and apes evolved from the same ancestor.
2006-06-07 08:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by The Teacher 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
For all you dog lovers:
Evolution of the Dog:
From Pekingese to St. Bernard and greyhound, dogs come in such startling variety it's easy to forget they belong to the same species. The profusion of breeds today -- at least 150 -- reflects intense, purposeful interbreeding of dogs in the past 150 years.
One consequence of interbreeding to create purebreds with sharply individual traits is that many disease-causing genes have become concentrated in these breeds. Because of the growing concern about health problems and the availability of powerful methods to hunt genes, scientists are hard at work on the "dog genome project." As with the Human Genome Project, the goal is to locate and map canine genes, particularly those that play a role in disease. Genes that influence behavior are also of great interest.
At the same time, the entire history of dogs and their relationship with humans has undergone some rethinking recently, thanks in large part to high-tech molecular dating methods that can determine evolutionary relationships and chronologies.
The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are different in form from wolves, mainly smaller and with shorter muzzles and smaller teeth.
Darwin was wrong about dogs. He thought their remarkable diversity must reflect interbreeding with several types of wild dogs. But the DNA findings say differently. All modern dogs are descendants of wolves, though this domestication may have happened twice, producing groups of dogs descended from two unique common ancestors.
How and when this domestication happened has been a matter of speculation. It was thought until very recently that dogs were wild until about 12,000 years ago. But DNA analysis published in 1997 suggests a date of about 130,000 years ago for the transformation of wolves to dogs. This means that wolves began to adapt to human society long before humans settled down and began practicing agriculture.
This earlier timing casts doubt on the long-held myth that humans domesticated dogs to serve as guards or companions to assist them. Rather, say some experts, dogs may have exploited a niche they discovered in early human society and got humans to take them in out of the cold.
2006-06-07 09:05:18 · answer #4 · answered by digilook 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mammals.
Creationists don't take issue with the classification system.
2006-06-07 08:40:07 · answer #5 · answered by Aaron 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Technically yes we are animals but that doesnt mean we were ever a different kind of animal. Dogs have always been dogs, birds have always been birds and man has always been man.
2006-06-07 08:39:40 · answer #6 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Umm.. impossible dream... you don't really believe that dogs have always been dogs... do you? Because they haven't. With a couple of exceptions (huskies is the first one that comes to mind) they used to be wolves.
2006-06-07 08:50:33 · answer #7 · answered by The Resurrectionist 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Humans are the smartest of animals, but also the weakest.
2006-06-07 08:43:27 · answer #8 · answered by Kookoo Bananas 1 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Ha ha. Impossible dreams thinks dogs have always been dogs. Man made dogs.
2006-06-07 08:40:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Creationists take a lot of pretty obvious things and say they're not true. Because clearly, faith knows more about science than the scientists.
2006-06-07 08:46:18 · answer #10 · answered by Miss Red 4 · 8⤊ 7⤋