How can you say a human is not an animal?

Some people think that humans are special. In fact, they think humans were created as something completely separate from "those" animals.





When I compare humans to animals (specifically mammals), I notice a lot of similarities.





Physical:


Eyes, ears, nose, head, fingers/toes, hair, teeth


Same 5 senses


Systems: digestive, nervous, etc.


Sex organs





Behavioral:


Sneeze


Yawn


Sleep


Emotions


Sexual desires





How can you say a human is not an animal? How can you say that we aren't the same? I will be very disappointed to find out that god made me special but decided to make me crap once a day just like my dog does.

How can you say a human is not an animal?
Yeah, I agree. We're very intelligent animals (well, most of us anyway) but animals nonetheless.





Actually, in my opinion, our civilization needs to get out of this mindset that we're special at all. We're really not. People don't like to hear that, but we're not. We don't have a "higher purpose"; we're a puny species on a puny planet floating around in a universe that's so vast that none of us will ever be able to comprehend it. In the broad scope of things, how meaningful and important are we? Not very.
Reply:Meow?
Reply:Who said humans aren't animals?
Reply:And some people like to wallow in their own crap.
Reply:You can't unless you are an idiot.
Reply:Let's see animal, vetetable, or mineral.


I think we qualify as animal.
Reply:because we are the supreme being compare to the other animals. we can say what we like
Reply:We are not the same. Humans are far more superior to animals. We can think creatively in ways animals can't.
Reply:Your dog only craps once a day? Sheesh, you're lucky. Mine go at least twice each, and usually in the house.
Reply:we are parasites not animals, compare humans and parasites,they are very similar
Reply:Wow dude, you have some serious issues. Please get help right away.
Reply:Just as I can say that you have asked a question and I am giving an answer.
Reply:at least animal cannot write his opinion here at yahoo answer we are better one step more as they are
Reply:I am a firm believer in evolution, but your argument won't get you


very far.





There are a lot of things that evolved to perform similar functions


but took very different routes. For instance, the wing of a bat and the


wing of a bee perform virtually the same functions.





By your logic, how can they not be related?





Bats are mammals. Bees are insects. Yeah, I guess they are related


very very distantly, but the fact that they both fly is evidence of very little.
Reply:I believe humans are animals. We're mammals aren't we? But we've got so many mental problems. And I'm a (uh oh, here it comes) believer in evolution.
Reply:a human is a mammal. just not really the same as other mammals. have dogs created a worldwide network like humans have [that we know of today]?
Reply:We are just very intelligent and evolved apes. There is a reason why we share 99% of our genes with chimpanzees. Also, we share more than 90% of our genes with mice. It makes you wonder.
Reply:Were homosapiens and mammals not animals. We dont walk on all fours and we have thumbs
Reply:Ge 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.








enough said
Reply:You can call us what you will , but we are more intelligent than any other "animal" . We were made in God's image so that makes us very special .
Reply:Monkeys are having a whale of a time...


Laughing their heads off......
Reply:i can say that human also animal
Reply:when human believe in God . then he is not animal
Reply:Humans are in essence animals. But there are many, many things that makes humans different from animals which you did not list. Humans have intelligence beyond what any other animal on this planet has. We build, we create, we use tools, we wear clothes, we use shelter, we use fire. Name one animal that can do all that besides humans.
Reply:a human being falls into the animal category. the thing that makes us "special" is our power of reasoning and free will. most animals are driven by instinct, we can choose our own path. some humans make better choices than others!!!
Reply:Well you have many characteristics that an animal doesn't, you have intelligent speach, you can learn to do things besides roll over and play dead. You have a soul. You can think through things. You have an incredible amount of potential intellegence. You can use money, you can count, read, and write. You can't compare humans to animals.
Reply:Well I crap in a toilet,drive a car and spend money and alot of us humans wear clothes. I also have several animals which I give baths to and feed and care for.
Reply:all have the same breath,but who knows the spirit of the man that goes up,and the spirit of the beast that goes down
Reply:We are animals. We just don't consider ourselves animals, How come every other living creature on this earth is an animal except for us? We ARE animals, it's just that our brains our more sophisticated. I don't mean sophisticated in condesceding sense either. Sophisticated in that they allow us to do some things that other animals can't. But, animals are pretty smart too. Some of them can build their own houses, hunt for food, etc.-they just don't have cell phones.
Reply:We are, in fact, "animals". . .but not in a derogatory way. . .we mostly have an evolved mind or conscience. . .the ability to initiate sex at will and for solely for pleasure (although the dolphin and a certain species of monkey can do this as well under more conditional situations). . .and the capacity to "help" or "harm" others like a g-d!





Personally, I like the reference to humans and animals as "creatures". . .this brings us together in a broader way without making any comparisons.
Reply:They are not.



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