Do evolutionists claim that humans are animals?

Your argument proves one more time that paleontology is only a morphological science. No more than that.

This is not a very precise argument, but it makes the point: If you are animal, then you do drive to work. Because no other animal is doing that. They don't drive. And they do not go to their office or lab to work.

The bible says we are animals too.
Eccles 3:18 I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.

Do evolutionists claim that humans are animals, namely some form of ape? Yes or no.

This is the base, or is the whole thing, about evolutionism.

However, I would suggest you to read the verse following it to complete the sentence.

King Solomon is really wise.

Scientific meaning of an object starts with a definition. But that is not the end of it. After the object is defined, the definition need to be used in other arguments so the object would become meaningful.

So, if human IS an animal, then what? Do you like to continue to explore the nature of human based on this definition?

I don't think so.

Hardly. Evolution isn't based on scripture, it is based on scientific evidence, just like round earth theory, heliocentrism, atomic theory or germ theory. And instead of it being the whole base, there is a vast amount of evidence from multiple scientific disciplines for evolution.

What it does show is the one of the problems creationists have with evolution, a deep rooted reaction against the idea of humans being animals too, simply isn't scriptural.


I am not sure what version you are looking at, but any one I have seen start a new sentence in verse 18. Nor do I see how verse 18 is supposed to help you case. It does not change his statement in verse 17 they we are animals and the God wants us to realise we are animals. It also says we are more than animals. In ourselves we are animals, but he has also said that God has put eternity into man's heart (verse 11). So we are animals in ourselves, but animals in whose hearts God has put eternity. Verse 21 is really good too, and cuts through even more of our traditional ideas about the distinction between men and animals. Eccles 3:21 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? Apparently Solomon thought animals have spirits too. Their spirits may have a different eternal destiny to ours and may simply disappear when the animal dies, but they do have spirits.


He certainly was.

I don't know anyone who says humans are animals outside of a biological context. Obviously, humans are a rather unique species on this planet in that we have the ability to introspect and have a higher realm of thinking. We are sentient. Dolphins are second in line, and they don't come close.

Agree.

So, there are many disciplines and biology is only one.
Without any explanation, should we simply ask a question of the OP? Should we proclaim loudly on the street: humans are animals? Why not?
If we do explain the question, then is the question meaningful any more?

That definition is what those certain characteristic properties are. You are confusing connotative meaning and denotative meaning. One connotative meaning of "animal" is "savage, primitive, uncouth" or what have you, and is the meaning that I suspect peace4ever is trying to link the idea of humans being animals to.

But given that evolution is a scientific theory, it deals with language in a scientific fashion. Therefore, the supplied definition is the only thing we are considering when we say humans are animals. No more, no less.