[HankReardon]

Humans are humans, not animals, never were. How ridiculous.

[Stultis]

If it blastulates, it's an animal. Humans form a blastula during embryogenesis, therefore they are animals, Q.E.D.

Although, IIRC, there was a similar argument during the Scopes trial when William Jennings Bryan positively refused to be a mammal. Some wag pointed out that he had a point since the defense had defined mammals as having hair and producing milk from their mammay glands, whereas Bryan was bald and never been known to nurse his young.

[RipSawyer]

"Humans are humans, not animals, never were. How ridiculous."

Laying aside the question of evolution, if humans are not animals and they are certainly not plants, what are they?

[Junior]

Humans are humans, not animals, never were. How ridiculous.

Humans must therefore be vegetables or minerals, right? Humans are animals, in a scientific sense. We share oodles of similarities with mammalia (humans are mammals, and mammals are, by definition, animals), and even more similarities with primates. That you refuse to accept this does not falsify it in any manner whatsoever.