Posted on 05/11/2005 7:38:54 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Please note the "Kingdom."
They were minerals (i.e., "rocks").
Well, if you took out all the duplicate votes and subtracted the dead voters, the percentage would be significantly less.
Don't forget all the felons.
True.
It can be quite easy to smoke out the guilt laden PETA nuts. Ask them if a bear snatching and eating a fish from a stream is considered nature. They should answer yes because they don't want to get in a bear's face. Then ask them if a human catching and eating a fish from the same stream is nature. They will either a) realize how foolish they are, or b) argue that we (humans) are not part of nature. Either way, you will win the argument or smoke them out by exposing their belief that humans are an inferior enemy to nature.
Since most PETA militants are also tree huggers, another interesting approach is to tell them how much pain fruits and vegetables feel when they are harvested and eaten. You will then find out that trees have feelings, but fruits and vegetables do not.
I thought we evil humans were foreign to planet Earth and are the cause of destroying it with our evil capitalism and evil CO2 emmissions.
I was trying not to pile-on.
Re: No we are not "animals"...
Human beings are classified within the animal kingdom through the Linnaean system of classification.
It is this system of classification that utilizes the categories of genus and species (among others) in which the name "Homo sapiens" is derived.
Unlike animals, Homo sapiens excercise free will and conscious thought through the souls and spirits that we are endowed with by our Divine Creator.
We may have physical bodies (i.e., "shells") that are in essence the bodies of animals...yet we also possess those innate added dimensions of spirituality, reason, culture, insight, creativity and other uniquely human characteristics that separate us from the beasts.
The reference comparing humans to animals only relates to the physical. The Linnaean system of classification is based upon the theories of Charles Darwin.
While I am not a knee-jerk evolutionist, I do believe that Creationism and the Theory of Evolution are NOT mutually exclusive. I beleive that the two ideas can dovetail together.
For more info about the Linnaean system of classification, go to:
http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/animal_1.htm
We're certainly part of the ecosystem!!
From the PETAphiles I've met, I can assure you: it's both!
Regardless of what you post, I will not agree. Yes I will deny it until the day I die and them I will be satisfied.
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