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Just before the end of the 20th century, when man, according to evolutionists, had become so “evolved”, so “developed” and of such high “intelligence”, we had yet further proof of how blind and foolish he really is:
In 1999 New Zealand became the first country in the world to pass a law recognising the feelings and status of the great apes as “man’s closest relatives”.  That’s chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.  They’re our closest relatives, friends – that is, according to evolutionary “science”.  In fact, human beings are classified by these same geniuses as a species of great ape, in the same family as both the ambling and the arboreal anthropoids just mentioned.
Now I don’t know about you, reader, but it strikes me that there’s nothing too flattering about being lumped in the same “family” as gorillas and chimps.  Don’t get me wrong, I like the critters, I really do, the chimps are playful and fun to watch, the gorillas are awe-inspiring, all of the great apes are intelligent (for  animals!), but apes are apes and men are men, and that’s all there is to it.  In a word, they are animals, and man is not.  Oh sure, he acts like one, and worse than one in fact; but he is not one.  On the sixth day of creation, “God made the beast of the earth after his kind” (Gen. 1:25), and this included the various apes; and then He made man, in His own image, after His likeness (Gen. 1:25-27)!
Not so, say the evolutionists: the great apes and man evolved over millions of years from a common ancestor.  They have no proof of this, of course, just as they have none for any of their other absurd evolutionary theories; but nevertheless, it is put forward as perfectly logical, a “scientific” answer to the “absurd fantasy” of biblical creationism!
But it is not science, it is “science falsely so called” (1 Tim. 6:20), and the real fantasy is that men – or apes for that matter – evolved from anything.

The New Zealand act was called the Animal Welfare Act, and it prohibited the use of the great apes in research, testing or teaching, unless this use would be in the best interests of the apes themselves.  It prohibited the use of these animals for experiments that would be of use to humans.  It was easy, of course, for New Zealand to make such legislation – there aren’t any great apes running around in New Zealand!  The only great apes New Zealand has are a few in captivity.  The absurdity of it all seemed to have escaped the notice of those who hailed it as a great victory – a country legislating protection for creatures it doesn’t have.
This ground-breaking legislation was hailed by an organisation known as the Great Ape Project (Gap), which had brought the bill before the New Zealand parliament.  Its vice-president, Paul Waldau, said, “Ultimately, Gap would like to see the non-human great apes accorded standing in legal systems throughout the world.  This would permit them to be protected by rights to life, liberty and freedom from torture.”
It’s a twisted, warped world all right.  As unborn children are murdered by the millions every year in their mothers’ wombs, having absolutely no “rights” to life, liberty or freedom from torture, the beasts of the field are being granted the very “rights” denied to human beings!  And note the reference to the apes as the “non-human great apes”. Once again, we’re being subtly indoctrinated; we’re being conditioned into thinking of the apes as our “relatives”.  We’re the “human great apes”, they’re the “non-human” ones.  But we’re all apes.  That’s the point.  This is what the teaching of evolution has done to men: it has convinced them that we’re all nothing but great apes, and therefore the “other” great apes deserve equal treatment before the law!  What’s next – are we going to see “ape rights” activists screaming, “Apes are people too”?  Will those who hunt and shoot the apes be tried in courts for murder?
If such things sound too far-fetched, don’t be too quick to laugh it off.  Years ago already, in the United States, there was what was described as an “explosion of interest” shown by law schools in the status of animals;  and the famed Harvard University decided to offer an “animal law course” in 2000!
Gap demanded from the United Nations a declaration of “Rights of the Great Apes” similar to the New Zealand act, but it went even further: it demanded that these creatures could not be put behind bars without a court’s decision!  Gap compared its fight against injustice in the treatment of the great apes with the fight for the “rights” of women, sodomites, and disabled people.

Well, the Great Ape Project continued to push its agenda; so it was ecstatic when, in 2008, Spain’s Congress of Deputies gave consideration to a bill that would extend human rights to apes.  The environmental commission of Spain’s parliament voted to approve resolutions committing the country to the Great Apes Project.  The resolution called on the government to promote Gap internationally and to ensure the protection of apes from “abuse, torture and death”.  The new resolutions are expected to become law, with the Spanish government now committed to update the statute book within a year to outlaw harmful experiments on apes.  It was even proposed that the use of apes in circuses, TV commercials and filming should also be banned.  In Spain, tens of thousands of children are murdered every year by abortion, and yet the authorities were considering giving “human rights” to apes!
Pedro Pozas, the Spanish director of Gap, said, “This is a historic moment in the struggle for animal rights.  It will doubtless be remembered as a key moment in the defence of our evolutionary comrades.”
Note the merging of Communist terminology with the apes’ “rights”: he spoke of the “struggle” and of the apes being our “evolutionary comrades”.  In this way the whole issue is tied in to leftist political “struggles” (certainly one of the left’s favourite phrases), which is most certainly the plan, for then it makes it appear that this particular “struggle” is no different from political “struggles” the world over, whether “struggles” for political power of certain groups, “struggles” for women’s “liberation”, or “struggles” for so-called “gay rights”.
And what nonsense anyway – “our evolutionary comrades”!  Michael Jackson might, but no right-thinking human being feels any comradely closeness with any great ape.  They are interesting, fascinating, often funny creatures, and the Lord has put them on this earth to display His power and infinite variety in creation, and they give us much pleasure to watch and study; but are they our “comrades”?  Hardly.  Here’s the definition of the word “comrade”: “a ‘chum’; esp. a fellow-soldier; hence gen. an associate in friendship, occupation, fortunes, etc., mate.”  Well then, in no sense whatsoever is a great ape my comrade.  We’re not chums, we don’t serve in any army together and never will, we’re not associates in friendship, we certainly don’t have the same occupations, we don’t share the same fortunes, and we’re not mates.  To talk of humans and great apes as “comrades” is a complete fallacy.  And as for being “evolutionary comrades”, well, that’s taking absurdity to even greater heights.
And again, as with New Zealand, Spain has no great apes of its own anyway!  The Madrid daily, El Mundo, said in an editorial that the only apes in Spain were “the ones that could cross over from Gibraltar”, and questioned why the country should become “the principal flag-bearer of the apes’ cause”.
Not only this, but Spain is the land of vicious bull-fighting!  They want great apes (which Spain does not have) to be given “rights” protecting them from death and torture, and yet bulls (which Spain has in abundance, and which bullfighters kill on a regular basis in a particularly barbaric manner) have no such “rights”.  Pozas’ answer to this argument was telling: he said the vote would set a precedent, establishing legal rights for animals that could be extended to other species.  “We are seeking to break the species barrier – we are just the point of the spear”, he said.

So: if apes are to have human “rights”, will they also be expected to have human responsibilities?  If they are to have the “right to life”, will they be held responsible, and punished accordingly, if they take away the “right to life” of a human being, or even of another ape, by killing him?  Will it be treated as murder when an ape kills another ape, or a human being?  Will they be tried in court, just like human beings?  Will they be entitled to legal representation and a fair trial?  Such considerations just show how utterly absurd this entire issue is.  Men will be punished if they deny the “human rights” of “life, liberty and freedom from torture” to the great apes – but the apes themselves will not be punished in a similar fashion if they deny the same “human rights” to other apes or to men!

As I said above, I’m very fond of the apes.  They are a wonderful part of God’s great creation.  It would be a tragic day indeed if the last chimp, or gorilla, or orangutan was killed, and these fascinating creatures joined the ranks of species now deemed extinct.  They should be preserved, and some places should be conserved as natural habitats for them, where they can live unmolested by man.  What a tragedy if our children only saw these magnificent creatures in picture-books or documentaries.
But still, they are animals.  They are animals just as elephants are animals, or dolphins, or lions.  They are not our “closest relatives”.  Adam was a unique creation of God, fashioned from the dust of the ground, the breath of life breathed into his nostrils by God Himself.  His descendants are no more related to chimps and gorillas than to dogs or cats or goldfish.
Welcome to the 21st century: criminals go free, murderers don’t get the death penalty, the unborn are murdered by men and women supposedly dedicated to preserving, not snuffing out, life – and the great apes have rights.  What an upside-down world it has become.  It increasingly looks like a giant madhouse, and the lunatics are running this global asylum.
This is Charles Darwin’s insane legacy.

March 2009

(Much of this article first appeared in the January-May 2000 edition of The Bible Based Ministries Magazine.  The original article has been slightly edited, and then expanded by the addition of further information in 2009)

Shaun Willcock is a minister of the Gospel and lives in South Africa.  He runs Bible Based Ministries.  For other news articles (which may be downloaded and printed), as well as details about his books, audio messages, pamphlets, etc., please visit the Bible Based Ministries website; or write to the address below.  If you would like to be on Bible Based Ministries’ electronic mailing list, to receive all future articles, please send your details.

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