(February 9, 2010 at 9:34 am)rjh4 Wrote: It is funny, Evie, how you say with such conviction that humans are animals...like that is some objective truth. If we are animals it is only because we choose to classify ourselves that way.
Well wouldn't you think it kind of odd if for no reason at all we didn't classify, say, giraffes as animals?
Quote: It is not like everything comes prelabeled and humans have an "animal" label on them.We are animals by the same criteria(s) that other animals are I presume. I fail to see any reason that we are an exception and are "not animals" that's the point.
Quote:And I do not have anything against animals, by the way. I think I said before that I think we are superior to the animals because God has made us so and given us dominion over them (see the Bible). That is my reason.Why do you believe God is right in his judgement in the first place? Because it says in the Bible that he says he is?
Quote: As I said to Zen, I have not hidden the fact that I look at things from a Biblical perspective.Indeed, I'm just questioning you.
Quote:Why can you not see my point of view even though it may be a different perspective from yours?
I don't understand why you believe that we are not animals just because the Bible says we are superior to them. And I do not see why you accept anything at all in the Bible if it is only because it says so?
I'm trying to see your point of view.
EvF
