“We’re not that special.”
“Warning: Humans in their Natural Environment” read the sign at the entrance to the exhibit, where the captives could be seen on a rock ledge in a bear enclosure, clad in bathing suits and pinned-on fig leaves. Some played with hula hoops, some waved.
Visitors stopped to point and laugh, and several children could be heard asking, “Why are there people in there?”
London Zoo spokeswoman Polly Wills says that’s exactly the question the zoo wants to answer.
“Seeing people in a different environment, among other animals … teaches members of the public that the human is just another primate,” Wills said.
Question of the day: Does this zoo also plan an exhibit featuring scripture reading, describing how man was created in God’s image and then the animals were created? Talk about progressive mind control! Here’s a quote from one of the participants:
“A lot of people think humans are above other animals. When they see humans as animals, here, it kind of reminds us that we’re not that special.”
Someone has neglected to tell that young man (or he was taught it and then rejected it) that he really IS that special. God created him and the rest of us separately from animals, put us in charge of the animals and gave his own Son for our salvation after the fall in the garden of Eden. How much more special can you get than that? Don’t be lulled into complacency once you see that it happened in the UK; this same thing could EASILY happen in the US and our kids are being taught that same exact sentiment in many public schools.
Hat tip(?) to AP writer Cassandra Vinograd and her piece, Humans are the ones on display.
The daft thing is, that the very fact this is being done at all shows just how “special” humans are. I mean, can you imagine any other animal doing anything remotely like this?
Reminds me of that GK Chesterton quote in which he says that there are only two ways to explain humankind: “either something very much like an angel fell, or else one of the animals went completely off its head”.
My big thing in this article (which i had just read right before reding the blog post lol) Is the centering on how “people are just primates”. I tend to think a little more highly of myself, personally, and God must too to make us keepers of his creations.
also, about the teaching in schools thing. I know I talk and post about this all the time, But I am firm in the belief that when teaching creation, especially in public school, they should teach all theories, and explain that (unless they are religious) that they are just that, A THEORY. You can’t make a non christian believe in creationism, but by enlightening them, we can atleast prevent the anti-creationism sentiment provided by most darwinists, including these.