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Monday, 9 March 2009
Monkey Business: Extending “Human Rights” to the Great Apes
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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)! continue