One question was asked whether animals have feelings or not. To this, i tend to side with the atheist stance and say NO. Animals have no feelings because they are not moral creatures. Their so call emotions is a manifestation of complex neural activity that we humans perceived as emotions.
Does that make me an animal hater? No. To me, we still need to show love and compassion to animal as they are God's creation. His creations are far more perfect than ours and our love towards the animals should be an expression of the love for God's creation. However, to say that animals have emotions, I would not agree. This would unequivocally make animal having the same status as humans. This is so stupid because when Johnny the kid and Johnny the puppy stand in the middle of the road and you are driving the car. As what Mark Driscoll would say, the puppy goes. That just too bad. But I would save the kid first.
Humans are the only creatures that had God breathed into his nostrils and are created in His image. We are higher than the animals but lower than God. We are moral creatures and have emotions. Please do not tell me that animals have feelings and emotions.
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