How are humans not animals?

Question

My view - yes, of course. It is a biological fact. But some of you on here seem to have very troubling views on the matter, and I have to ask, how are we NOT animals?
Do you not have bodily functions?
Muscles? Organs?
Can you not get diseases and health problems?

And God creating man above animals is not proof - could he not have created man above OTHER animals?

'In animals apendisites is the organ which digests their food but in human it is the waste part of the body. Hunda's do not have tail but the animals have.' - firstly its 'appendix,' secondly only herbivorous animals use it - for digesting cellulose. Otherwise cats and dogs would be counted as humans too. And lots of animals dont have tails - how old are you?!

Answer 1

Human being is just animal because we possess the traits and characters of other animals'. Our 98% of DNA is similar to the chimp's DNA. There is no way to say that humans are not animals.

Answer 2

We are animals. We are a species of primate closely related to bonobo chimpanzees. The thing that seems to separate us from animals are our advanced skills at manipulating our environment through the extended use of an intellectual culture.

I have always wondered, if god created us to be separate from other animals, which is our genetic material the same as virtually every other ape. In fact, why do apes still live in the central part of Africa where our ancestral home is located? It makes no sense. Evolution is clearly the better explanation for human development.

Answer 3

Man is an animal like every other... it's our conceit that places us as "higher" or "above" other animals, a conceit that is reinforced by religious teachings despite the fact that conceit is regarded as an unpleasant and undesirable characteristic by those same religions.

But we are the ones deciding by what criteria we judge "higher" or "above". The most successful animal on the planet is actually Krill - if you judge by total living biomass. The animal most likely to survive a major meteor strike on the Earth is the cockroach, ant or possibly the rat. We patronisingly call dolphins intelligent but have no real way of judging how intelligent they are because we invite them to perform "our" tests - how good would we be at performing tests that they devised?

All animals living today are equally well "evolved" or adapted to their environments or circumstances; otherwise they wouldn't still be alive. Man is only "special" because we say so - because we ourselves are "Men"; a dolphin, elephant, cockroach or amoeba might well disagree. Why is it that some people who believe in God cannot accept that God created a range of living things, one of which was Man?

Answer 4

Biologically, yes, its an established fact that humans are theoretically as far as we know animals.But its the very fact that we re asking this question to ourselves that perhaps distinguishes us from the "animals". Humans have gone far beyond any 'animal' that has existed on this planet in terms of technological advancements and in understanding the workings of nature and of life itself. Organs and bodily functions are not the only basis of classification.

Answer 5

As someone said earlier, we have a soul. However, if that answer doesn't satisfy you, then we have the ability to think and reason, and have a moral standard with which we all seem to be familiar at birth, or very early anyway. C.S. Lewis argued this in Mere Christianity. Animals have no such standard, as they will abandon their young, or in some cases eat others of the same kind.

Answer 6

Humans laugh for one thing. Another difference is artwork and music, the arts in general. The most troubling difference is man's innate ability to be counterproductive when it comes to habitat. I know, some species drive out others, but man is obviously enroute to destroy everything. I would consider that a rather God-like quality.

Answer 7

In animals apendisites is the organ which digests their food but in human it is the waste part of the body. Hunda's do not have tail but the animals have.

Answer 8

We humans are animals but we have some extras that differentiate us from other animals. We have the ability to reason and to weigh complex variables in order to select the alternative that is consistent with our desired outcome. We also have a soul and spirit that permits us to develop a relationship with our creator and to plot a course of soul development that makes us a closer representation of God who made us in his/her image.

Answer 9

We are biologically animals. The only area we differ from animals is intelligence, at least on earth (including the possibility that out of the billions of stars out there, at least one othe rplanet has life).

I don't see how anyone can argue that we aren't biologically animals.

Answer 10

Ignore all that mumbo jumbo and listen up. I don't care if your christian, athiest or if you worship the red guy with black horns.

Humans scratch, sniff, poop and produce just like anything else on the world we live in.

We are animals in a sense but we are human animals. God created us above all the other species, but he based us off of his first creations. He took all his favored parts and made a species above all others to rule the planet.

So when he created us, he made us elite. We are just based off his other creations.