Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

Everyone must have noticed the avalanche of knowledge emerging over the last few decades, diffused rapidly over the Internet.

it is undeniable that humans are animals.

Hardly. We're made in the image of God and were put here to care for the animals and the planet.

I will inevitably inject my own view, which emphasizes evolutionary continuity

That kills it. Don't want to read books full of foolish human philosophies like this and the one about us being animals. The more they teach these things to kids though, the more the kids act like animals. Glad my grandkids know the Truth.