By your "logic", a Jew or Christian believes they are nothing more than animated clay. Before you disagree, please read my tagline.
Lib—”By your “logic”, a Jew or Christian believes they are nothing more than animated clay. Before you disagree, please read my tagline.”
The ‘clay’-—in the hands of its Intelligent Creator- became mankind-—made in the image of his Creator,and endowed with a spirit within which is located freewill, memory, self, personhood, reason, imagination, thought, and so on.
The trousered ape, on the other hand,is an accidental by-product that emerged from out of primordial slime. It has no spirit, hence no self, memory, imagination, freewill, thought, logic, reason, and so on. Whenever it believes it “knows something” it has simply experienced the knocking about in its cranium of firing synapses. In the words of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc, the ape is expendable-—lice, useless eaters, etc.
Your attacks against the author indicate that you have utilized the free-will you deny possessing to freely choose an existence as a trousered ape but that you are discomfitted at the thought of being an ape.
And yes, I read your tag-line. It’s exactly the sort of defensive posture one expects from someone whose vanity has led him to choose being an ape because it’s the “enlightened” thing to do. If tomorrow you were told that it’s the ‘enlightened and scientific’ thing to think of yourself as a dung-beetle, would you do it-—for vanity’s sake?