As a Catholic I know humans are warm blooded mammals. But we are not animals nor beasts. Through the evolution theory, we have evolved above animals, making us human BEINGS. No other animal species is a BEING. Through the creation story, we were created after all the animals, fish, birds and beasts. God gave us authority over the earth and all that is on it. So as I see it, no matter which way you look at how mankind can into existence, we are not animals. We are above them. We are beings. Our intelligent is above the animals.
With the process of evolution, why was it that only the apes evolved into beings?
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Google definition search begs to differ. Human being is just another way to say Homo sapiens. Through extensive scientific study of different kinds of animals we have found that a number of different kinds of animals have different degrees and kinds of intelligence. Humans are tool makers and users? So are Corvids. Humans use complex language/communication? So do dolphins, whales, elephants, other apes, some parrots and more. Humans have a personality? So do snakes [to a degree], dolphins, lizards, cats, dogs, elephants, monkeys, lemurs, apes, rats, rabbits, horses. . . .
We're really not that different from the rest of the animals and it's rather arrogant to think otherwise. Our difference is only a matter of degree, not kind.
Hell, I'd give other animals more credit than humans. Their instinct for how a person is going to treat them is almost always right on. Mine is too, but with my 'superior reasoning' I figure I have to give them a chance.
Nothing like using an idiosyncrasy of the English language (and, to be fair, a couple of other European languages, too, like "un etre humain" in French) to justify something about our animal species.
Assuming that the last sentence of the first paragraph is intended to imply that we're more intelligent than other animals, that's open to debate, but I sincerely doubt that we'd be able to prove it one way or another unless and until we find a way of truly communicating with other animals.
"As a Catholic I know humans are warm blooded mammals."
Gee, as an atheist I know that too.
Did you know that the official position of your church is that it accepts evolution?
With the process of evolution, why was it that only the apes evolved into beings?
Whales, dolphins have intelligence equal to humans, but they lack one thing. That nifty opposible thumb, as they are sea dwellers.
I think the thing that really sets us apart from other animals is our arrogance about our importance to the universe.
we are so intelligent, we invented wepons that could wipe out evrey living thing on this planet......
And yet, no other species in the animal kingdom has priests that molest little boys. (and parents that turn a blind eye to it)
Perhaps, as a Catholic, you're not so evolved after all.
"Our intelligent is above the animals."
Well, some of ours is, yes. Unfortunately not yours though.
As a Catholic I know humans are warm blooded mammals. But we are not animals nor beasts.
Human beings are mammals. Mammals are animals. The conclusion is left as an exercise to the reader.
Through the evolution theory, we have evolved above animals, making us human BEINGS. No other animal species is a BEING.
Fundy Word Redefinition Project ftl.
Through the creation story, we were created after all the animals, fish, birds and beasts.
The two Genesis creation stories say opposite things on that point.
God didn't give us authority over the Earth.
We did.
We're the best damn toolmakers on the planet. No other species can touch us. When we make up our mind to do something, it gets done .
You don't mess with the nuke-wielding apes of planet 3!
@ jack cambrian, I saw that immediately and got a little tingle of appreciative irony.
'Being' is the fancied-up word for 'creature'. Nothing more.
One of the things which made Darwin's work truly revolutionary is out of all the people who had similar concepts, he was the only one who could separate what was fact from what he wanted to believe.
You want to believe, you have a typical human ego which can't allow you to believe anything else, that you are above the animals and the earth. But until you can set ego aside, you can never truly learn or become more than you are.
We're a lot more advanced, but that doesn't make us more important or "above" them. Besides, if a certain species of animal dies out, it can affect the whole ecosystem, but if people died out I don't think it would hurt any other species...and of course would probably be good for most of them.
The more neurobiologists learn about animals the more is clear that our abilities are only better than those of other animals.
Animals use tools (for example birds that use sticks to fish for trmites, or macaques who use stones to crack open nuts)
With other words, we are not so special as some people would like us to be ;)
"if people died out I don't think it would hurt any other species...and of course would probably be good for most of them."
There would be a few species that might have trouble for a bit (opossums, for one) but I think they'd recover a natural diet and balance fairly quickly.
But...apes weren't the only ones. Elephants and dolphins are beings too. And possibly some parrots. And other apes, definitely, but you've covered that....
You know, this is fairly open-minded. Catholics are pretty chill like that, in my experience.
How do you know that they're not beings? If given the chance, one of the other species(say, camels) could have evolved to be like us humans. If the camels had a religion, and fundies, you'd be saying the exact same thing if you were a highly evolved camel.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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