At the ranch, I was watching one of the cows licking her new born calf,so lovingly and protectively.

Just recently another cow had a calf also, who was born crippled.
What did this other momma cow do, with her crippled calf? She sat by her calf and would not graze....
but would just sit there by her crippled calf, softly mooing ...for hours each day.

Do animals feel emotions?
You bet.
Meaning .... they have a soul.

We humans also have a soul....but we also have a spirit too.

But....Where did our spirit and soul come from?

Who Breathed life into our spirit?

And Who Gave Us a soul, to feel emotions ?

Who keeps our heart........and the heart of all creation , beating...day in and day out?

Who keeps our lungs ...and the lungs of all the animals of the fields and forests, still breathing...even while asleep?



What or Whom brought that all about ?


Did that all....also come from the Big Bang?


Did Evolution from some amoeba or the Big Bang, bring all that about?

Even to where the animal kingdom can feel emotions, as well as us humans ?

A Big Bang did this?

Did this all Just happen by sheer happenstance?

Really?

Or

was

it

MAGNIFICENT GOD

A big bang is more plausible than an invisible man in the sky. Also you're attributing human characteristics to something that is non human - anthropomorphism if you will. Oppsss.. no you're not, my bad, exclude the anthropomorphism statement.

Upon closer read - "Even to where the animal kingdom can feel emotions, as well as us humans ?" how do you know that animals feel the same degree of emotion humans do? How do we know it's not instinct?

Niether the Big Bang, nor evolution, deny God MorningSong.

These concepts merely conflict with certain ancient rumors that suggest what God might be like.

These observations about reality merely suggest that the ancient rumors that claim to know what God is like are either literally inaccurate in detail, or they are total fabrications of men.

But none of this observations of reality denies God MorningSong. It merely suggests that God uses differnt processes of creation that ancient men could not magine.

I believe in the Trinity MorningSong;

The Big Bang, Evolution, and God.

I attribute the emotion of compassion to Peccy.

And the emotion of passion to his pecker.

Mules love their babies Peccy, just ask Jeanniebean.

Also, I can tell you right now that I have very deep emotions.

And again, if you ask Jeanniebean she'll confirm I'm an animal.

But how do we know it's not mere instinct to care for their young? What about animals that eat their young? Out of love?

How do we know our emotions aren't mere instinct?

Do you calculate your emotions?

Are emotions logical? What would Mr. Spock have to say about that?

Are humans who are mean to other humans just animals?

If some humans are compassionate, and some humans are not, could animals also be the same?

I've certainly had pets that were more affectionate or less affectionate than others I've had.

My last cat wouldn't leave me alone. It wanted attention all teh time and loved to sit in my lap and be petted. The cat I have now is totally unaffectionate. It doesn't even like to be touched hardly at all. It will come and sit close to me on occassion, but if I reach down to pet it, it will leave. It doen't like to be touched. Really weird.

All animals are not alike. Cleary they have individual personalities just like humans.

I personally don't feel that there is all that much differnce between humans and animals.

I think humans would just like to believe that there is more difference than there actually is.

Nice thread Morningsong

Humanity is nothing more than an animal with a guilt complex.