Men have souls and are made in the image and likeness of God.
That used to be a universally held truth in the Western world. But once the leftists and modernists eradicated that belief, the powerful could literally get away with murder (holocaust, abortion, etc.)
In one sense, yes, Humans are very different from other animals, in that we have developed a highly-complex society that is also highly diverse (other animals do have complex societies, but they tend to be complex in one way only).
In another sense, we’re no different, since we’re simply one more way that DNA has found to successfully propagate and perpetuate itself.
Because we're all different, we're the same. hmm.
A little noted difference between humans and othe creatures is the vast range of individual differences. Shaquille O’Neal and Taylor Swift are the same species as are Halle Berry and Whoopie Goldberg. Our facial structure, coloring, adult size, height and weight are remarkably variable even within the same ethnic group.
language, foresight, mind-reading, intelligence, culture and morality
No other animal can talk. Gives us the ability to cooperate and make deals and plan and to learn from our history. It gives us the ability to perfect ourselves as a species. No other animal can do any of this at all. We have to admit this whether we believe in God or not. But for those of us who don’t, they can have fun asking the question why are we so different.
The headline writer deserves a cookie for writing “different from.”
The government has no conscience!
No, the canines are still there, although they are no longer larger than the other teeth. Interestingly, teeth have shrunk measurably in the last few thousand years, which seems to be a consequence of our shift to eating cooked food.
We can compare alternative routes to the future and deliberately select one plan over another -- giving us a sense of free will and an edge over creatures with less foresight.
This also burdens us, however, with the responsibility for getting it right. The future is uncertain and, of course, we often get it wrong.
I do not believe that liberals have a very well-developed ability to foresee the future. If they did... well, they wouldn't be liberal. As an example, one only need look at the Clinton era policy of forcing banks to give mortgages to people who cannot qualify to borrow money; the collapse of the mortgage market in 2008 was an entirely foreseeable consequence of that policy.
It’s tough being a primate.
The headline is disrespectful to animals.
Creating man was just one of God’s experiments. He created every single cell life-form and moved on to multi-cell creatures. They successfully reproduced, learned to survive, kept their numbers stable and contributed to the earth’s environment.
Then God created man and gave him an ‘intelligent’ gene - just for fun.
It worked for a while until man got too big for his britches.
Now God is wondering “what next?”
The Lord gave us dominion over all the animals, birds, fish...all of them. That’s enough for me to know that we are different.
Only man has reason (the ability to judge right and wrong) and free will. No other animal can place itself before a banquet and deliberately choose to starve itself to death for what it judges to be a just cause. End of argument.
They don't even know who they serve.
Some humans are different than animals. Some are not. I’d say the cutoff is around IQ 60. If your IQ is below 60, there is very little difference between you and apes.
We can kill from great distances. That is our most important distinction.
If you clip your dog's nails, you'll find the front (paws) grow twice as fast as the rear (paws). Just like humans. 'Guess we "grubbed around" like our progenitors. 'Course, there is much more evidence, but we are more similar than we think, and more similar as we compare—especially among Mammals.