I ask this based on other questions i have asked. Generally atheists either we are good by nature (despite a history of war) or good and evil were concepts of man and not relavent. I also asked who you hold yourselves accountable to and most of you said no one. So what's the difference between us and animals?
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2007-10-06 07:49:13 · 30 answers · asked by Strats!! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow these answers are really depressing so far.
2007-10-06 07:54:15 · update #1
Stop picking on the atheists. If you don't know the difference between humans and animals, you are an idiot. The answer is obvious. Indoor plumbing!
2007-10-06 07:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by magix151 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I think your question is a little badly worded. Don't you mean to say between humans and other animals?
I'm not an atheist (in fact I am as non-atheist as I could be... polytheist!!!!) but I think I can answer this pretty well. Humans, besides looking different, also have much more complex brains and thoughts. We've evolved to the state where we are the most dominant species on the planet. We don't even have to worry about surviving anymore... we got all the food and water we need (well most of us anyway...).
I don't really think that all humans are selfish, or that all are inherently good either. It's really more nurture than nature, and it depends on their society.
2007-10-06 15:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by xx. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Essentially there is no real difference We are animals ourselves Are we more special? Not sure we have developed certain unique traits which have allowed us to cultivate our surroundings to an effect that no other animal has done as far as we know now.We are the result of an effective breeding program that has elevated us in some ways, Generally speaking we are still the smae animals we always were
2007-10-06 15:04:55 · answer #3 · answered by MissE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel that humans and other animals are sentient beings and should be treated with loving kindness. The only difference I can see is that other animals do not choose to hurt others out of malice.
Also in your second question, most atheists did not answer no one. It seems that you ask a question and then do not bother reading the answers. How do you expect to learn anything that way?
2007-10-06 14:57:54 · answer #4 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not an anti-believer but the answer is that animals have no ego.They are permanantly connected to source in their "ignorance" through instinct and have no egos to justify.While people have an ego which appears to separate them from source through learned intellectual ignorance,ie education and so called reason.The more we "learn" and think we ourselves as individuals are the important ones rather than God,the more separated we become.The ego is only necessary to give us an identity here in 3D reality,but it tends to get carried away and far too self important.The ego was never meant to run the show,it is not qualified no matter how much it thinks it "knows".
2007-10-06 15:10:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
species identity. They are different species from ours.
Why don't you read a book on sociobiology? You will learn that even animals have an equivalent of morals. You will learn why some amount of cheating by individuals is unavoidable, but how the cheating is held low by retribution. After reading up on it, a lot of things regarding animal and human behavior will become much clearer to you.
2007-10-06 14:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well for starters, humans are animals. Second, it depends on the animal. Example, some have tails, others do not, humans are (usually) the ladder. Most animals, like dogs, can not reason. Apes can, however. Meaning a dog that gets tangled around a tree on his leash, won't understand how to fix it, no matter how often it happens. Reasoning.
2007-10-06 17:35:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First, there is the issue of your spelling. The word you are trying to use is "atheist," from the Greek "theos," meaning "god" with the prefix "a" meaning "without."
Now, the principal difference between human beings and animals is the structure and the organization of the brain and its relation to body size.
2007-10-06 14:56:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humans are the dominant animal on the planet that's the difference. We have larger brains but we are still a species of great ape.
2007-10-06 14:56:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an athiest, but what I learned in college in psych classes was that the difference is......
Human beings are sentient beings, that is, they are aware of themselves as thinking, reasoning, human beings.
Animals are not aware of themselves in this way, supposedly.
Although I have to wonder about that, after seeing dophin behaviour and elephant behaviour too where they cry for their dead, etc.
2007-10-06 14:55:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋