If you mean are we descended from animals then categorically yes, if you mean are we animals now, then just as adamantly no. I don't sleep outdoors, defecate in the woods, and eat my young just for starters. Humans have a conciousness a million (or billion) times removed from our closest animal cousins (no matter how much you use anthropomorphism on them) and we are the result of thousands of years of culture, exploring metaphysics, and yes, sympathy for other species, that has resulted in modern ethics and morals.
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honestly between the age of crixificion and the age of chemical warfare is there any other way to define the actions of humanity as a whole as "animal"
Um, yeah. Lots of different ways but unfortunately i don't think you'll care unless I back it up with some vague references to science – which you may or may not understand, but hey it'd be “scientific†as opposed to maybe “religious†so who would care if it was true or not? * That apart, don't ladle me with your crap modern secular guilt that's so feckin fashionable right now. Mankind has transcended it's animal origins. Live with it.
One of the greatest tragedies of our age is that some modern scientists and their prodigious brains, a world apart from me and you pal let alone bubbles the chimp, are sitting in front of their million dollar computers, that no animal can even comprehend let alone work, intent on reducing humanity's many facets, and not just the fully justified biological, to animal status whilst ignoring
exactly what it is to be human.
*All hail Science, the new religion of the uneducated masses.