Man is not an animal.
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It seems obvious that man is essentially an animal with a human soul, the body having been evolved but his soul created. The differences are assumed to be accidental and quantitative only. But in truth the differences lie rather in the realm of quality than quantity, and taken together they constitute an absolute difference. Man differs from animals in so many subtle ways - anatomically, physiologically, psychologically, mentally and spiritually - that it no longer is really justified to classify him in the animal kingdom at all.
He is a creature unlike any other, not so much because he has certain faculties that are superior to theirs, but because he is capable of sin and of being redeemed; which no other animal is. His destiny is different: and his origin is different.
Man is both more than an animal by reason of his creation, yet less than an animal by reason of his Fall. He is, in fact, unique to which the term 'animal' is not really applicable at all.
--George Gaylord Simpson, Biology and Man.
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