LindaBee2 wrote:whiterabbit42 wrote:We are part of the animal kingdom, and thus animals.
No, we are not. Prove to me how we're members of the animal kingdom?
You are the one attempting to argue with biology, prove that homos sapiens are not a classification found in zoology.
When some Christians oppose science out of ignorance it makes the rest of us look like bigoted, uneducated, small-minded people who follow myths.
MAMMALS
Human
Human, common name given to any individual of the species Homo sapiens and, by extension, to the entire species.
Homo sapiens is identified, for purposes of classification, as an animal (kingdom Animilia) with a backbone (phylum Chordate) and a segmented spinal cord (subphylum Vertebrata) that suckles its young (class Mammalia); that gestates its young with the aid of a placenta (subclass Eutheria); that is equipped with five-digited extremities, a collarbone, and a single pair of mammary glands on the chest (order Primates); and that has eyes at the front of the head, stereoscopic vision, and a proportionately large brain (suborder Anthropoidea). The species belongs to the family Hominidae.
The preceding description rests on anatomical observation (see Anatomy) and current scientific theory on the origin of the Homo sapiens species. Humankind itself is also defined in many other ways—religious, social, moral, and legal.