Similarity should be standard... it should not be like animals have tail & humans don't.
& the difference should be unique.
2007-11-15 18:11:56 · 13 answers · asked by Narinder Chauhan 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
what makes humans different from animals is their level of thinking & understanding things & their ability to express their feelings & respond.
2007-11-17 00:26:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anamika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans and animals have a physical body. Humans and animals have a soul. Only humans have a spirit. The voice of the spirit is our conscience, which can also decide against instinct or physical drives. Animals cannot do this.
Humans can base their decision on their free will, whereas animals adapt to nature and their environment or to humans.
Humans have to decide to either live in harmony with nature or not. Animals do not make decisions about this, they just follow their instinct in that.
Humans have the ability to self-transcendent, so to live in devotion to a task, a person or God for example. Humans can even when living in difficult circumstances, detach themselves from this situation with the defying power of the human spirit.
Humans are not controlled from their body and psychic condition, but can stand above suffering or psychic or somatic conditions. Depending on ones own decision humans can always decide their own attitude towards a situation, whereas animals do not have this capability.
Added this later: The animal is part of the world. The human being, however, is more then part of the world. We are co-creators.
2007-11-15 20:14:32 · answer #2 · answered by I love you too! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Believing their own eyes" I have never seen evolution in my entire life. Why? Because the process of this theory is TOO SLOW. NOBODY has ever seen evolution, and THAT is why it is still a THEORY. Yes, the Bible said God made everything. There are many MANY countless unknown species that are alive today, and THEN count in the ones that we don't know about that are extinct. So evidently, God made ALL types of animals. So naturaly they look the same (but different). There are hundreds if not thousands of logical explanations as to why people and apes are similar. Evolution is just one of them. As much as you seem to the the believers in Genesis ignorant, crazy, or stupid, you have also just jumped the bandwagon into believing Evolution. Not to pass judgement, but you seem as if you've never even questioned the possibility of other logical theories.
2016-04-04 03:57:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans have self-awarenes, animals do not. An animal cannot think about himself or analyze himself, nor change his behavior. Humans have the power of reason and choice, animals have instinct only.
The power of reason sets human apart from animals. However this great power has its drawbacks. For example man has created thousands of diseases that exist throughout mankind. Animals not having that ability suffer from very few ailments or diseases. And the animals that experience the greatest number of diseases are pets who are forced to live in the environment of humans.
2007-11-15 18:27:59 · answer #4 · answered by stedyedy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
DIFFERENCE is made out of layers starting with "NO DIFFERENCE" on layer one and evoluting to DIFFERENCE on upper layers.
Layer 1 - LIFE No difference
Layer 2 - STRUGGLE FOR LIFE No difference
Layer 3 - REPRODUCTION OF SPECIES No difference
Layer 4 - INSTINCT No difference
etc......
Then comes the starting point of difference :
LAYER X - SELF CONSCIOUSNESS Difference
LAYER Y - MIND AND SOUL Difference
etc...
You carry on with a very very long list of reflexion about every single detail of life.
But ... it is not because WE ARE DIFFERENT some way, that we should not respect and admire and love animals ... The opposite should be true !
2007-11-15 18:34:38 · answer #5 · answered by Sweet Dragon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humans are capable of rationality, considered by most to be a prequisite for moral agency, although animals may be due consideration as a moral subject.
2007-11-15 18:29:49 · answer #6 · answered by Who Is This Is 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not the similarity that's interesting, it's really the difference. Animals are COMPLETE. They meet all of their design specs. Humans do not. They are INCOMPLETE.
2007-11-16 13:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
absolutely there is no difference excepting for the fact that humans dictate terms but animals obey the terms already imposed by nature god.
2007-11-15 18:44:00 · answer #8 · answered by sristi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its the sixth sense that man possess.
ability to understand, laugh, cry, speak and basically the different emotions that man can express, which the animals are lacking.
this makes the diff.
2007-11-15 18:25:08 · answer #9 · answered by jahnu 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. The delusion of separateness is promulgated by ignorance and by greedy monks, priests, shaman, etc.
2007-11-16 01:11:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋