We belong in the mammila family. We have fur (hair), we eat, excret waste, reproduce and die.
Studys have shown that animals despite what most poeple think have feelings and emotion and don't run on pure instincts. (Remember humans have instincts too)
How are we different from any other animal?
2006-12-10 21:48:29 · 11 answers · asked by Reload 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, I am a Wiccan and I know humans are a type of animal. The only way we are different from other animals is we have more ways to kill others and more tools.
2006-12-10 22:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by Stephen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Intelligence is complicated to degree contained in the animal kingdom because it truly isn't any longer a one-length-matches-all trait. different species must be sensible at various of issues. Like, Arctic Terns must be outstanding at navigation, yet no a lot for sure with chimps. Likewise, chimps (or maybe some birds) are good at utilizing or maybe making procedures to help them carry at the same time nutrients....yet that type of intelligence does no longer serve a shark okay (even even with the reality that sharks have awesome concepts). all those themes are what make preserving a winner so complicated. finally, i'd wager that the animal with the most "human-like" intelligence is easily one of the chimp. And different primates. Their social structure, language ability, use of procedures, and problem-fixing aptitudes are extra like ours than the different creature. yet easily dolphins, parrots, crows, ravens, and dogs own an intelligence that makes them uncannily basic to narrate to. playstation curiously the noble octopus is a brainer, too, yet i do not comprehend the information.....
2016-11-25 20:24:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on what religion you're talking about. buddhism believe that humans are animals too, although buddhism has been declare to be a philosoply. christians, muslims, and jews believe that humans are not animals. they believe that humans are superior to animals and humans are God's favourite creation. there was a controversial i remember in a science exam in my school where humans are excluded from the animal catogory. many have complained, but the teacher maintained her views, saying "do you want to be an animal?". i believe that humans are an animal though, because we have too much in common with other animals. there are a lot of documentries of how primates evolved into human beings about 2 million years ago. Humans became as intelligent as they are because of natural selection. about half a million years ago, there was a great drought in africa that most of the humans were killed and the ones that survived were those who were smart enough to make the best of their surroundings.
2006-12-10 21:58:35 · answer #3 · answered by renaudldw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the stuff you said related to the physical attrubutes of being a human.
Is that all to human? just a material aspects you've just mentioned?
Ask your teacher who told you about "mammil family" that there is no morals for animals. (I don't think my last name is "mammila". Though I have to check first on my Driver Licence). By the way, do animals have driver licenses? not yet?
consciouseness? you see I'm not buying the "wishful fantasies" that consciousense may result (evolve) from inanimate matter. It doesn't happen - sorry.
Can your Pepsi can speak? I don't think it EVER will. That's the deal. It's not just the material analogies we are discussing here (as I hope you see already).
as for the brain sizes and stuff... (a) do elephants have a smaller brain? (b) did brain knew what it will do when it will be formed 100% percent, or it was just forming untill it started to think "wow that's cool I'm now can think, why I didn't think about forming myself before" and that's all by complete chance and nonsensical meaninglessness witjout any guide.
That is quite a good indoctrination in contemporary schools!! Keep the good "scientific" work!!
2006-12-10 21:58:04 · answer #4 · answered by kostas the ancient priest 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We are animals, and we are classified in the "great ape" category, biologically speaking. What makes us different from other animals is our great big brains, which some of us actually use. When the anti-evolutionists say "I am not a monkey" they are right - we are great apes! Monkeys have prehensile tails - we don't. Other animals have some language and some culture of sorts, but nowhere near as elaborate or as complex as that of a normal human being.
2006-12-10 21:54:22 · answer #5 · answered by Paul H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when was the last time an animal built a city, automobile, went to the moon, raised a family, attend college, cashed a pay check, open a can with a can opener, make a can opener.
If man was evovled, which I do not believe, I believe Genesis 1&3.
Then were did the female come from? They say man came from apes, how and when did the female appear, so man could mate and make more men?
Man is far superior to animals:
man is made in the image of God:
God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Man is trinty - body (Jesus Christ) soul (God) spirit (Holy Spirit)
Animals lack soul -
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Man can enter heaven, by God's way. Animals just die and return to the earth, animals don't go to heaven!
Man is a wonderful creature made specialy by God:
Ecclesiastes 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Man was made to worship Jesus Christ and God:
Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
It was Adam, God had fellowship with before man's fall
2006-12-10 21:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by readthekjv1611@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm a fairly religious person (by the definition of such within my given spiritual path), and I consider humans to be a type of animal. In fact, one of our central religious tenets is that humanity is animal.
2006-12-10 21:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by The Man Comes Around 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Gen.1:26 God is Creating man & he also tells his angels That man will have dominion over the fish of the sea, & over The fowl of the air, & over the cattle, & over all the earth & over every Creepeth thing that creepeth upon the earth. Now you are trying to bring Sceince into the oicture & leave aout Creation, Why don't you put Creation in the picture & leave Sceince out of the picture. The only thing science can prove is that there wa a creation, Why has it taken them thousands of yrs. to see that when I can see Creation in one second
2006-12-10 21:58:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Humans are the most brutal and cruel predatorily animal on planet earth.
How are we different from other animals? We are greedier.
2006-12-10 22:21:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, we're mammals...we're the only animals to be modernised with tech. and stuff!
2006-12-10 21:51:04 · answer #10 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋