There are many reasons why animals and humans don't have the same inflammation issues.
A new study published in Annals of Botany shows that plants react to anesthetics similarly to the way
animals and humans do, suggesting plants are ideal objects for testing anesthetics actions in future.
Injectable vaccines often require trapping the animal — a costly endeavor that's stressful and dangerous for both wild
animals and the humans doing the vaccinating.
Capturing renewable energy by plants,
animals and humans does not permanently deplete the resource.
Not exact matches
If some plants
and animals don't age, why should
humans have to?
«It's the
humans convincing themselves that it's a really cool thing to
do with their pooch,» said award - winning trainer Bill Berloni of Theatrical
Animals, who works with TV, movie
and Broadway producers.
What it
does: This microbe is extremely versatile
and can live in a wide range of environments, including soil, water,
animals, plants, sewage,
and hospitals in addition to
humans.
«We also wanted it to be something kids could imagine as anything — we didn't want it to be something they were already familiar with like a four - legged
animal or two - legged
human — so it has three legs...
and one eye.»
Now for the inevitable caveat: there's still a lot of work to be
done before this type of technique could be applied to larger
animals like pigs, sheep,
and (potentially), one day,
humans.
I don't know of any legitimate theologians or Scriptural interpretations vouching for
humans and animals and tools to get married.
That
did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving
and returning
animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the
animals on the Ark was impossible — a few
humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..
The law says we can kill
and eat
animals as long as it's
done in a safe
and humane way, it also says a fertilized egg isn't a
human until it reaches 24 weeks.
Also, i guess a living zombie, a snake, a rib woman, a magical tree
does sound strange... i find it much easier to believe in a cosmic event that produced life out of nothing one day
and that we slowly evolved from
animals into
human beings.
Animals are not made in God's image
and do not live according to any moral code — only
humans.
That said: «But god
did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God
did know
and provided «that the snake would talk to the
humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other
animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the
humans would choose knowledge (
and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good
and evil.
ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to
human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion
and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth
and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the
animal kingdom, but I wd need to
do some work to reference a credible study.
Of course the sequencing is not quite right, because the poem was written / inspired (take your pick) before science
did its work.But the intuitive observer could see a clear evolution form plants to
animals to
human life, with continuities
and differentiations.
how
do you know that
animals have no souls...
and that only
humans have them.
You
do not have to be a religious zealot or a scientific Luddite to oppose the patenting of
animal and human organisms
and genes.
A Question Of
Human Dignity I applaud James Legge for directing attention towards questions to
do with the relationship between
animals and man (Faith, January / February 2004).
In
humans, organs have purposes, as they
do in
animals, though in us the spiritual soul controls
and directs so as to give «unity» to what is «related».
In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas
does not mean to say that natural law is shared by all
animals including
human beings» the natural law, as the «participation of the eternal law in the rational creature,» pertains only to
human beings (I - II, 91.2)» but that natural law includes natural inclinations shared by other
animals, «such as sexual intercourse, education of offspring,
and so forth.»
I
do also recognize a hierarchy of living beings in that I regard
human life as more valuable than
animal life
and would not oppose essential medical experiments on
animals, although I am not persuaded that all experiments are essential.
I
do believe that
human beings are created above
animals but that only heightens our responsibility to treat them with care
and kindness.
But one way or another all advocates of
animal rights, process thinkers included, lament the fact that so many domesticated
animals can
and do suffer unnecessarily at the hands of
humans.
And if all the dinosaurs died in the flood, and animals / humans pre-flood didn't eat mean... why does T - Rex have such HUGE tee
And if all the dinosaurs died in the flood,
and animals / humans pre-flood didn't eat mean... why does T - Rex have such HUGE tee
and animals /
humans pre-flood didn't eat mean... why
does T - Rex have such HUGE teeth?
Rolston's point is that individual mountains, plants,
and animals do indeed have value apart from their usefulness to
humans, but not in isolation from their environments.
I
did find that they were suppose to be
animals that understood
human language
and hunters would chat to them.
And don't claim aything about this «
humans as the higher standard, rule over the
animal kingdom» B.S. People kill much more indescriminently than any
animal ever
did.
If someone believes in the creation story to the extent that they reject scientific inquiry, they're not well - equipped to conduct the research
and do the work needed in the future to benefit
and improve the condition of
and ensure the survival of the earth
and its
human and animal populations.
Also, just to add, with the example for ants
and elephants...
animals do not have the same concept of morality as
humans do.
I'll even offer observations -
humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus
and bacteria, clone
animals,
and attempt to create new
animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have
done the same thing
and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down
and arrogant.
These previous points once again are believed by many religions, but there are also many religions that don't make this clear distinction as with some forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism
and others which believe in the transmigration of the soul through reincarnation from
humans to
animals and vice versa.
At most, you can find Genesis 9:1 - 6 as allowing eating of meat
and not explicitly stating that it is OK to eat
human flesh (as long as you don't consider
humans as «moving» creatures), but as far as looking at the law in detail goes; search the Law in detail
and you will find many explicitly laid out things that you «shall not eat» listing many different types of
animals and circumstances but you will not find
humans listed among them.
First, you sound a little unsure about how a computer works,
and secondly nuclear energy has nothing to
do with evolution, unless you are looking into creating mutant
humans and animals.
It's not just life /
human nature / NATURE??? There are a lot of beautiful things in this world, but there is the uglier side as well...
and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect&raqu
and to blaim it all on God — good or bad... well you might as well be living in the old testament... I am surprised there aren't still
animal sacrifices to the angry, wrathful god that so many believe in... Oh, another question to the thumpers who believe that «God can be cruel» (
And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect&raqu
And I really don't think Stephen King would say any of his work supports that)... So is God actually «perfect»?
Along the same lines, Sapontzis argues that
animals» intentional
and sincere, kind
and courageous actions are moral actions, for they accord with accepted moral norms,
and we
do not require demonstrations of moral principle in everyday
human moral practice (AAMB 51 - 2).
His good creation was not intended to function this way, but since He gave
humans, angels,
and even
animals (to a degree) the freedom to make genuine choices, we sometimes use this freedom in ways that are contrary to the will
and desire of God,
and when we
do this, the forces of nature suffer the consequences,
and chaos rages over the face of earth, wreaking havoc, destroying lives,
and bringing destruction in its wake.
So cosmic history
does not experience fall till
human beings appear, since matter, vegetable
and animal do not have the spiritual freedom to fall.
How
did atoms crashing together create all the different
animals and humans?
At best Braine shows thathuman beings have an existence that transcends the body because they have language, but he
does not show how or why only
human beings
and not other higher
animals possess transcendence when they are all alike psycho - physical beings, because
animals are not to be explained mechanistically either.
There are many things in the
animal kingdom, including
humans, Douglas, where things don't appear to make biological sense,
and yet they just «are».
Morals
do not come from belief
and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape;
human sacrifice;
animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.
Aristotle, noting that the
human embryo in its earliestform
did not have a
human form, head, body
and limbs, imagined that it had an
animal soul which was replaced by a spiritual soul as soon as the
human form definitely became apparent.
The problem is that organized religion is as much political
animal as any other
human convention involving more than 2 people,
and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to
do with what one actually believes...
But if what I have said regarding asymmetrical relations
and human identity is correct, the primary moral question becomes: When
does an individual
human life become as valuable as the life of an
animal?
The term moderate evolution might therefore be applied to a theory which simply inquires into the biological reality of man in accordance with the formal object of the biological sciences as defined by their methods
and which affirms a real genetic connection between that
human biological reality
and the
animal kingdom, but which also in accordance with the fundamental methodological principles of those sciences, can not
and does not attempt to assert that it has made a statement adequate to the whole reality of man
and to the origin of this whole reality.
We needed a perfect savior, a
human sacrifice, like us, because all the blood of
animals that was spilled under the Old Covenant through Moses
did nothing even though God told them to
do it
and implied that it actually would
do something.
He wants people to live according to Seven Basic
Human Laws: To believe in One G - d, not to blaspheme Him, not to steal
and kidnap, not to murder, not to
do adultery, etc., not to eat the limb of a living
animal (
animal cruelty)
and to set up effective courts of justice.
I've been better able lately, for whatever reason, to put myself in the shoes of someone who
does believe this is it, that
humans are evolved
animals who will die
and that's it.