Honestly, could you give me the Biblical reference to animals having souls? That is new to me. Thanks.
I know they can feel pain and I don't want them to suffer, either.
Our laws are continuing to creep more and more, I agree. This is my concern because everything can be made to seem reasonable.
Well now that you have dropped most of you orginal arguments. You have now resorted to "more and more of our laws are creeping because they are made to see reasonable."
This is the third time that you have tried to move off the topic at hand, and frankly really smack of Paranoia. That is why there are checks and balances in the political and law making system and ultimatly the supreme court.
Romans 8:19 says that the lesser creatures await Christ's return to redeem the sons of God so they, too, will be released from physical death to eternal life.
to recieve eternal life your are required to have a soul... there are numorous other verse that will support that also.