I see us as being nothing more than highly evolved animals trying to be something different.
Hence the need for religion.
2007-04-16 21:43:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NO! We were created by God.
2007-04-16 21:52:54 · answer #1 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes - however I would say the term 'being nothing more than' misses the point, if what the religious people say is true then we are nothing more than pre-destined slaves. We are ether slaves by direct control or by moral and purpose.
By having evolved - we are at least self made and our errors are there for use to correct.
We are amazing beings too. Our potential is stifled by our own self limiting. We are told we cannot be this or that because our destiny is the other. Well THE BIG NEWS IS, we can choose - to do - to be - to become, and we are not tethered by any limiting gods or god.
Study NLP and see just how amazing we ALL are.
2007-04-16 23:11:03 · answer #2 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not very highly evolved....
Think about it. The human knee? A disaster. Ligaments tear off the damned thing like nothing. The eye? Sensitive and delicate, and the best defense we have is the eyebrow and eyelashes? And don't get me started about the birth canal. If we were intelligently designed, the Intelligent Designer was drunker than Hemingway or took more drugs than the complete roster of Parliament/Funkadelic.
So much of the human body is jerry-rigged that evolution is a much better explanation than humans being the magnum opus of a perfect, omnipotent Creator.
2007-04-16 22:19:11 · answer #3 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What a astounding, concept scary question! this is uncommon on those boards these days. I believe Mike, that our experience of precise vs. incorrect and "judgment of right and incorrect" is set via our way of existence. If human beings if actuality be told possessed an innate experience of precise vs. incorrect, the oppression this is deemed suited and appropriate that still happens in many cultures immediately won't exist. It is sensible that we've an ingrained want to further our species, and function stepped forward a ability for empathy between many different complicated emotions. relating to the very almost regularly happening perception in an afterlife - i've got confidence that it incredibly is born from a terror of mortality/dying.
2016-10-22 09:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by olis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is my own opinion of course, no we are not,we are what we were meant to be i.e Humanity both Male and Female,we cannot really be compared to any other creature because we are not the same,there is a distinct uniqueness and even the small similarities that we see in other forms of life are not enough to undo our special place in creation.
Animals have their unique place too as does vegetation but just because we grow up and rely on the heat of the Sun as plants do does not mean that we are plants either.
2007-04-16 21:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My cat worships me, to my fish I am a God.. There was no food in my tank a minute ago, now I can eat ... Praise be to the Bearded One... lol.... I am not an animal, I am a Spiritual Warrior.....Blessed Be ... )O(
2007-04-16 21:58:39 · answer #6 · answered by Bunge 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that evolution has levels, thus nothing is highly, or lowly, evolved.
2007-04-17 03:38:34 · answer #7 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
or are we created creatures trying to be something different? Hence the need for evolution.
2007-04-16 21:47:14 · answer #8 · answered by Fatty McButterpants 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are human not animals. If you consider yourself an animal then its your choice go for it.
2007-04-16 21:52:20 · answer #9 · answered by Harvard 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust.
From, whence we come from.
2007-04-16 22:00:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋