Are humans higher life forms than animals?

[Insula Dei]

I guess humans do run less on instinct than most other animals, but why should that make us superior? Those animals have their own evolutionary traits that make them successful, and we have ours.

Are even if we go by intelligence, orcas are a very intelligent species. They can devise new strategies to hunt, thus not relying on instinct. The rest of the great apes are extremely intelligent as well.

None of the Great Apes ever wrote the works of Shakespeare.

Oh wait-

[Insula Dei]

I guess humans do run less on instinct than most other animals, but why should that make us superior? Those animals have their own evolutionary traits that make them successful, and we have ours.

Are even if we go by intelligence, orcas are a very intelligent species. They can devise new strategies to hunt, thus not relying on instinct. The rest of the great apes are extremely intelligent as well.

None of the Great Apes ever wrote the works of Shakespeare.

Oh wait-

Neither have tribes in the Amazon. 'All they've done is paint with their fingers and make sharp sticks.' Be very careful with that line of reasoning.

'Tribes in the Amazon' have accomplished great things, culturally speaking. Think of the Song Lines of the Australian natives. A thousand Illiads mapping the landscape, bringing the vast empty spaces to life etc. etc.

The gap between the animal and the human is there. The mere fact of language creates an unbridgeable divide.

[Insula Dei]

I don see why having language makes you a superior species.

I didn't use the word 'superior'. I just said there's a qualitative difference.

At any rate, my original post in this thread is much improved when you realize I thought you were memphis.