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This is what animals do. The old are abandoned. Left to die. If an animal is born with a defect the parent will largely abandon them. That we don't shows a differnce between us and animals.
It would really be irrelevant what you thought if they were superior.
Yeah I think Hitler had some experiments done on the mentally challenged and the like and then killed em.
Because we are seperate and superior to other animals. Always have, always will be. You can think your life is worth the same as a little monkey or dog. I won't. I was created in the image of God. Period.
Apprehend God in all things,
for God is in all things.
Every single creature is full of god
and is a book about God.
Every creature is a word of God.
If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature—
even a caterpillar—
I would never have to prepare a sermon. So full of God
is every creature. http://www.all-creatures.org/article...christian.html
We do because we can. Other species would do the same. If Chimps were as intelligent as we are, I have no doubt they wouldn't hesitate to subjugate other species. Species are programmed to only care about their own survival - in the eco-system that works out - but when they becoming TOO dominant it plays havoc with nature.
If God made man in His own image to have dominion over all living things, then God must have made a mistake; for of all creatures great and small, man is probably the least perfect. Many species have long since reached a state of perfection in their evolution; whereas Homo sapiens sapiens has been around for a relatively short period of time, and not likely to survive much longer for being hellbent on self-destruction. This is hardly "intelligent design"! Even the lowly cockroach is better suited for survival: it has remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, being perfectly adapted to every terrestrial environment between the polar icecaps, and very likely to be crawling about for millions of years after all traces of man have vanished from the earth.
Why is it that Human beings see themselves as seperate and superior to other living animals on this planet? All we are is but animals as well. We are no more important than the average housefly, no more special. Sure, we are fortunate to be gifted with the attribute of self awareness, and much more intelligence than any other animal, but that doesn't make us the rulers of this planet. It doesn't entitle us to somehow own this planet. If we were all to vanish this very second, Earth would go on without us, and thrive. Thrive with life.
Why are human beings so arrogant to not realize that we are not among the animals here, but we also, ARE but animals here?
Well, Whippersnapper let me spell it out for you and your short term view of the "problem".
Unless some species on this rock develops far enough to detect and divert asteroids and eventually moves off this planet....many of those houseflys, cats, plants are going to go extinct.
So 30million years from now when we divert a 5mile wide asteroid from impacting the earth and killing 90% of the species on the planet....we can just call it even.
If God made man in His own image to have dominion over all living things, then God must have made a mistake; for of all creatures great and small, man is probably the least perfect. Many species have long since reached a state of perfection in their evolution; whereas Homo sapiens sapiens has been around for a relatively short period of time, and not likely to survive much longer for being hellbent on self-destruction. This is hardly "intelligent design"! Even the lowly cockroach is better suited for survival: it has remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, being perfectly adapted to every terrestrial environment between the polar icecaps, and very likely to be crawling about for millions of years after all traces of man have vanished from the earth.
Again, your perspective is limited. In the longer-term timeframe eventually ALL life on this planet will end.
In fact, unless you hate on the cockroachs, you might want to consider that in the scheme of evolution that it's the cockroachs etc. whose continued existance as a species will ultimately rely upon us to cart them to a new planet.
Charles Darwin held out hope that man would evolve into a more perfect species, but feared that he was already doomed to self-destruction before getting there. Certainly, we are no better for following the Commandment to "Be fruitful and multiply. . . ." Genesis 1:28 (KJV). Ours has not been a history of good husbandry. Man may be master on this planet; but we are rapidly laying waste to the land and sea and the air upon which we depend for life's subsistence; for when this goes, then, surely as the earth turns, so shall we go also.
Why is it that Human beings see themselves as seperate and superior to other living animals on this planet? All we are is but animals as well. We are no more important than the average housefly, no more special. Sure, we are fortunate to be gifted with the attribute of self awareness, and much more intelligence than any other animal, but that doesn't make us the rulers of this planet. It doesn't entitle us to somehow own this planet. If we were all to vanish this very second, Earth would go on without us, and thrive. Thrive with life.
Why are human beings so arrogant to not realize that we are not among the animals here, but we also, ARE but animals here?
Diversity
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