What Makes Us Human?

The Nature of Man

God created human beings in His image, with a unique spiritual nature and an eternal destiny. To envisage human beings as nothing more than evolutionarily advanced animals—mere products of random luck over millions of years—is not an inconsequential choice but a dangerous position.

Humans Are Unique

We know from the book of Genesis that God did not use one organism as raw material for the next but instead spoke each into existence over the course of a few days. Human beings have remarkable differences including a spiritual nature that chimps have never and will never have.

Running Makes Us Human?

The popular media is abuzz with the new claim that “running made us human. The essential results of this study are that both living and fossil apes were incapable of endurance running but both living and fossil humans are capable of such running ability.

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