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The Social Darwinist Lie That "Man Is a Species of Animal"

Those deceived by this irrational, unscientific claim maintain that all of man's attributes are a legacy

from his so-called "animal ancestors." This has dangerous effects on a person's view of himself and of oth-
ers. Someone who regards other people as animals will disregard their ideas, and consider their lives to be
of little value. He will regard a person's death as no more important than that of a dog or a cat. The fact
that people are in need will cause no discomfort to someone who regards them as animals and thinks that

in any case, animals evolve through conflict and competition. Such a frightening view completely does
away with love and respect among people. For these reasons, those deceived by Darwinism must not ig-
nore what this deception will cost them.
George Gaylord Simpson says this about the way Darwinism regards human beings:

In the world of Darwin, man has no special status other than his definition as a distinct species of animal. He

is in the fullest sense a part of nature and not apart from it. He is akin, not figuratively but literally, to every
living thing, be it an ameba, a tapeworm, a flea, a seaweed, an oak tree, or a monkey—even though the degrees
of relationship are different... 168

In fact, however, this claim is unscientific, irrational, and illogical. Humans and animals are entirely
different entities created by God. Animals act in the light of instincts and lack reasoning. A human being,

on the other hand, is an entity capable of judgment and who can reason. Those who maintain that man is
a species of animal seek to apply the law of the jungle to human societies, which will lead to a terrifying
chaos that eliminates all peace and well-being.
Darwin expressed this distorted view in one of his letters, wondering whether human beings' ideas
could be of any value, based on the falsehood that they evolved from animals:

With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which
has been developed from the minds of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trust-
worthy. Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any con-
victions in such a mind? 169

Darwin's words neatly summarize evolutionists' terrifying view of humanity.

This grave error of Darwin's came to pervade a large part of the Western world,
and the idea that human beings are animals is still propagated in many countries
today, even in school textbooks. For example, Biology: Visualizing Life, published
in 1994, says:

You are an animal, and share a common heritage with earthworms and dinosaurs, but-

terflies and sea stars. 170
Benjamin Wiker, a university lecturer in science and theology and au-

thor of Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists, states how, after
Darwin there came an enormous deviation in the way man was re-
garded. He describes how the error of considering human beings to be
the same as animals spread, ignoring the differences between them:

… most if not all of "traditional" morality is based on the assumption that hu-

man beings are a distinct species. Thus, the prohibition against murder is de-
fined in terms of human nature. Don't murder! Don't murder what? Aphids?
Anteaters? Orangutans? No, don't kill another innocent human being. With
Darwinism, however, that species distinction between human beings and other

animals is completely blurred. There is no longer any moral line to be drawn be-
cause the species line has been erased.

Darwinists like Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer understand this perfectly. ...

Richard Dawkins and his The Blind Watchmaker

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