They say they have found the missing link; actually, there are thousands of missing links and of the 11 million forms of life on earth there are none--no half pig and half sheep or half horse and a half cow or half ape half human. I say that the missing ling link between great ape and man is one who is building a chapel because animals are oblivious to God and don't have the necessary equipment to know Him or worship Him. They simply don't have the mind to know Him, the will to obey nor the affections to love Him.
I'm not saying animals don't have intellect, will or feelings--I'm saying only on a limited scale. Man is the crown of God's creation in His image and the only one of the creatures that God said He breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living being. Some apes and chimps are smarter than the dumbest humans intellectually (so this cannot be the distinguishing trait), but they still aren't able to know God and have eternal life and worship God in Spirit and Truth. There are things that distinguish man from beast: thinking in the abstract and imagination, ability to analyze and criticize self, self-consciousness, and embarrassment, knowing good and evil, desire to know God, loss of innocence, awareness of eternity and death, and a conscience to guide instead of instinct.
We can adduce what man has that animals don't by a sort of algorithm. The point of this is that if we say a man is an animal then it logically follows that it is morally right to experiment on humans like the Nazis did; if we say animals are people too, then we must extend rights to them and not eat them or experiment on them.
BUT NOTE: Animals are not capable of sinning or of worshiping God so this is what separates man who alone is bad enough to need salvation since he defies God and does not obey in his rebellion and stubbornness. ANIMALS ARE OBLIVIOUS TO GOD; NO ANIMAL EVER BUILT A CHAPEL OR PRAYED.
The Achilles' heel of evolution is that they cannot explain the precise origin of life. Experiments of life fail to succeed without rigging the system in a way it couldn't have been in primordial times. They presume a primordial soup that gave rise to simple life but doesn't know where it came from. Soli Deo Gloria!
I'm not saying animals don't have intellect, will or feelings--I'm saying only on a limited scale. Man is the crown of God's creation in His image and the only one of the creatures that God said He breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living being. Some apes and chimps are smarter than the dumbest humans intellectually (so this cannot be the distinguishing trait), but they still aren't able to know God and have eternal life and worship God in Spirit and Truth. There are things that distinguish man from beast: thinking in the abstract and imagination, ability to analyze and criticize self, self-consciousness, and embarrassment, knowing good and evil, desire to know God, loss of innocence, awareness of eternity and death, and a conscience to guide instead of instinct.
We can adduce what man has that animals don't by a sort of algorithm. The point of this is that if we say a man is an animal then it logically follows that it is morally right to experiment on humans like the Nazis did; if we say animals are people too, then we must extend rights to them and not eat them or experiment on them.
BUT NOTE: Animals are not capable of sinning or of worshiping God so this is what separates man who alone is bad enough to need salvation since he defies God and does not obey in his rebellion and stubbornness. ANIMALS ARE OBLIVIOUS TO GOD; NO ANIMAL EVER BUILT A CHAPEL OR PRAYED.
The Achilles' heel of evolution is that they cannot explain the precise origin of life. Experiments of life fail to succeed without rigging the system in a way it couldn't have been in primordial times. They presume a primordial soup that gave rise to simple life but doesn't know where it came from. Soli Deo Gloria!