What Makes Us Human?

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.

Articles About What Makes Us Human?

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  • Chimpanzees and Fire
    Jan. 2, 2010 from News to Know

    When it comes to fires, chimpanzees keep their cool. Does this “reveal a primitive hominid trait”?

  • Monkey Hear, Monkey Know
    July 11, 2009 from News to Know

    If you ain’t no good speaker of English, maybe you should talk to one o’ them thar monkeys to straight’n ya out.

  • Whistling Orangutan Clue to Language Evolution
    Jan. 3, 2009 from News to Know

    Is that the sound of a wolf whistle or an orangutan whistle we hear?

  • Modern Human Sophistication: How Long Did It Take?
    Dec. 6, 2008

    Yesterday’s humans weren’t as sophisticated as today’s humans—according to today’s humans.

  • Social Tests Flounder Apes
    Sept. 8, 2007

    A Congolese study headed by doctoral student Esther Herrmann and her advisor, Michael Tomasello, both of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, is the latest research to highlight humans’ intellectual distinction from apes.

  • Magazine Department Article
    Tools of Evolution
    Tools of Evolution
    July 1, 2007 from Answers Magazine

    Wooden tools used by African chimpanzees have some evolutionists excited. Researchers have observed chimps in Senegal making spears out of tree branches and then using them.

  • Monkey See, Monkey Talk: Ape Communication
    June 2, 2007

    Researchers are astounded by ape communication skills.

  • Simian Sign Language
    May 5, 2007

    Simian use of gestures is the latest evidence of evolution—at least, that’s the impression given by a BBC NEWS article describing research into how bonobos and chimpanzees communicate.

  • Evolutionists Claim that Running Made us Human
    Nov. 22, 2004

    Yet once again the popular media is alive with the sound of evolutionism. This time the story that has them all abuzz is the new claim that “running made us human.”

  • Magazine Article
    Human Speech Didn't Evolve from Animal Grunts
    Sept. 1, 1995, pp. 6–7

    'All assumptions that human speech developed gradually from animal grunts (the so-called woof-woof theories) or that gestures changed incrementally into audible language, cannot be sustained.'

  • Magazine Article
    Axing Evolutionary ideas—Stone Dead!
    June 1, 1994, pp. 28–30

    One of the most popular myths of human evolution is that stone tools testify to the increasing mental and conceptual abilities of humans as they evolved.

  • Magazine Article
    Talking Monkeys
    Oct. 1, 1982, pp. 6–8

    An eccentric German, named Von Osten, set out to show that animals were as clever as men. He spent two years educating a horse which became known as Clever Hans.

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