Q: Are humans just animals?

A: People who accept evolution are more inclined to believe that there’s not much difference between cats and children. After all, they believe we’re all just animals. Sadly, this has had an enormous influence on the way people view abortion.

If evolution is true—and if man is just an animal—then what is in a mother’s womb is just another animal.  If you are willing to get rid of spare cats, why not get rid of unwanted kids in the same way?

What’s so sad—and inconsistent—in our culture today is that people will spend a lot of time and money trying to find a home for a cat, or they’ll protest against animal research and demand animal rights, but many of these same people think nothing of having an abortion to get rid of an unwanted child!

Evolutionary indoctrination has led people to abandon the absolutes of God’s Word. Since our Western society has largely turned from the truths of Scripture, we have lost an absolute morality. Instead, all becomes relative, and society forgets that man is made in the image of God. The solution is returning to the absolute authority of the Word of God.

While all life is valuable (within the proper perspective of stewardship), a human is made in the image of God and worthy of even greater respect and protection. To read more on this topic, see Get Answers: Morality and Ethics.

Quote of the week

Still unanswered is the riddle of how these molecules came to reproduce. Chemist A. G. Cairns-Smith of the University of Glasgow thinks the answer may lie not in glittery fool’s gold but in ordinary clay.

"… a number take very seriously the idea that clay or mineral crystals could have served as molecular molds that incorporated life’s building 'blocks' and organized them in precise arrays."

– J. Madeleine Nash, “How Life Began”, Time, October 11, 1993, p. 74

This week’s After Eden cartoon:

September 23–24
Warsaw, Ohio
Ken Ham, Buddy Davis
 
September 24
Tampa, Florida
Coordinators Arnold & Neta Schmiel
Video Conference
 
September 24
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Coordinator Bill Thoman
Video Conference
 
September 24
Hyden, Kentucky
Coordinator James Lewis
Video Conference
 
September 24–25
Charleston, Illinois
Dr. Terry Mortenson
 
September 30
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
Coordinators Jack & Judy Smith
Resource Booth
 
October 1
Adrian, Michigan
Buddy Davis
 
October 1
Florence, Kentucky
Daniel Lewis
 

October 1
Tullahoma, Tennessee
Dr. Robert "Tommy" Mitchell
 
October 1–2
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Carl Kerby
 
October 3
Decatur, Alabama
Coordinators Lynn & Miriam Klopfenstein
Video Conference
 
October 4–6
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Ken Ham
 
October 7–8
Winter Park, Florida
Carl Kerby
 
October 8
LaGrange, Kentucky
Dr. Robert "Tommy" Mitchell
 
October 8
Moores Hill, Indiana
Daniel Lewis
 
October 8–9
Pontiac, Michigan
Dr. Terry Mortenson