Why do atheists say that animals are sentient?

Question

They aren’t. That’s impossible. They weren’t created in the image of God.

Atheists lie and say that having brain and nervous system created sentience for them, but that’s not true. Only God can give sentience. Not brain or systems. And He only bestows that upon people who are of his image.

Answer 1

Because they can think for themselves. Idiot stop perversion of scripture

Answer 2

I am not an atheist. I have my own theory. I have made this theory from my own life experience. All creatures including human beings are ruled by spirits. Spirits are separate elements. A human being doesn't have a spiritual body. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. They are knowledge, skills, feelings, emotions, interests and everything. Even thoughts are not your own. For example, when you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another the spirits think and you just listen, choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. Brain is just a media to connect the spirits to your mind. A mind is just a computer's mind. After the destruction of a computer completely you will not get it's mind. The same is the case with the human beings. Soul is nothing but an energy needed for the functionality of a body. It is not a spirit or anything else. After death all spirits which accompanied a person quit and go to different places searching new bodies. No one lives in any form after death. All human beings are just robots made of flesh and bones and toys of the spirits for their games.



Each and every spirit is a conscious. Fo example when you play a game, the spirit related to that game starts to function. It alerts, gives ideas in a flash of time and make you play well. The same is the case with the animals. Animals are 100% under the control of the spirits but human beings are not like that. Human beings have sixth sense which other creatures don't have. Humans can choose their own spirits. But after they have chosen the spirits, those spirits starts to rule them. All spirits don't have the same intelligence.



God is a mystery even to the spirits. That's why you are able to see atheists even at this miraculous era of God. The people who born in this era think that this is natural and had ever been like this. They cannot realize the difference. The miracle had started in the year 1950. People who are aged more than 76 can explain about this miracle.



God doesn't watch each and every human being at the same time and cannot live with each and everyone to guide them. These works are done by the spirits. God had created different kinds of spirits for various purposes. He had made the spirits to watch, guide and determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. Your past determines your present and your present determines your future. God has given freewill to all creatures including human beings. According to this, all human beings have all right to live a life as they wish. But if it happens to be bad and hurts someone, they have to face the consequences. These consequences are created by spirits. It's a natural system. After death no one lives in any form. Heaven and hell are only for spirits, not for human beings.

Answer 3

Because atheist are dishonest

Answer 4

This is what we call a straw man argument. You don't get to make up your opposing side's view. As it happens I am a) an atheist and b) not claiming animals have sentience. This in and of itself invalidates your "question".

Answer 5

Because some animals are sentient: Elephants and dolphins are demonstrably self-aware.



Update @ thumbsdowners: Facts can be so inconvenient, can't they? Sometimes it's better to just deny them.





see Parsell, D.L. (2003-02-21). "In Africa, Decoding the "Language" of Elephants". National Geographic News.

Answer 6

Animals are not people. When Jesus died on the cross all, and I mean all, the animals knew for they loved Jesus as no other and still miss him.



Man, even if created in the image of God, is not the center of the universe and shows in individual cases to be quite troublesome to all especially if you look at the massive industrialism going on in the world.



The demonic are very active and so atheists who don't really grasp spirituality or the world see little of it's truth.



They only exist not understanding that that animal is trying to guide them into the love of God and Christ even though that animal lives in God's plan and follows God's will to a 't' something man (and woman) really only grasps after becoming a sainted one of the Lord God and blessed as such BY THE LORD GOD HOLY IN SPIRIT our Creator!

Answer 7

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a dolt

Answer 8

Check definition of sentience





Go to place where multiple of the same breed



are treated fairly (zoo, nature reserve, mutiple pet owner ect...)





Observe and compare behavioral diferences.



Come to realization that there is individualism and certail preferences amoung ani.als of even the same subspecies

Answer 9

I know, I know, your enormous ego can't handle the idea that humans are just another animal species. Your pride and arrogance demand that you be the result of special creation.

Answer 10

It's hard to tell if you are trolling or not, but it is obvious that animals are sentient.

Answer 11

If there are degrees of sentience then there can be no doubt that dogs, dolphins, and many members of the ape family are sentient to some degree. Look up the story of KoKo the gorilla, who learned sign language and engaged in primitive conversations with her handlers.



Among other things, some creatures like dolphins and apes pass the "mirror" test. That is, they recognize that the image in the mirror isn't another (different) creature. It is their own reflection.

Answer 12

How about Trolls? Are they sentient?

Answer 13

Believing animals are sentient isn't against christianity, and the us isn't a theocracy

Answer 14

This from a person that believes in an invidible creature popping into existance.

Answer 15

I believe animals can feel things. God gave them that when he gave them a brain.

They feel hunger or fear, or happiness. All that hardware we have is a gift, from God.

Answer 16

Probably because atheists think knowing oats are in a feed bag is the pinnacle of brilliance. Atheists are very dumb humans, but decently trainable animals.

Answer 17

Get an education before you ask such questions.

Answer 18

I'm an Atheist, and I never said that. The few other Atheist I know personally have never said anything like that. Richard Dawkins, has never said that in any of his books, Bill Nye,the Science Guy never said it either. Arron Ra mentioned that dogs are capable of morality to a degree, but not that animals are sentient.

Don't you guys ever feel guilty about lying for Jesus, or knowing that dogs are more moral than you are ?

Answer 19

They aren’t. That’s impossible.



- It is impossible for idiot fundies.



Only God can give sentience.



- And your proof is? Your hallucinations are only proof of your mental state.

Answer 20

Humans as sentient creatures are endowed with moral and intellectual capacity, but animals as sentient creatures are unreasoning.

Answer 21

All through the Bible we see references to the idea that God has a body like ours.



The question there is what need does a God have for a body that is adapted to exist in a gravitational, land-based environment and that needs to eat, pee, and defecate?

Answer 22

God does not exist, so your statements are totally false.

Answer 23

they have a better grasp of the definition of sentient than you have

eg

sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.

Answer 24

Animals communicate with each other. This alone could be why people consider some animals to be sentient beings. My dogs and cats seem to understand when I talk to them. Besides, why can't they be sentient? Who says animals can't be? Please don't say because it's not in the bible, because lots of things aren't in there and they still exist.

Answer 25

You speak utter bollocks. Many animals are intelligent and capable in many aspects. How do you think they survive in the wild? By chance or skills?

Answer 26

IT WONT MATTER WHAT THEY DO UNLESS they pray and repent and get saved...TIRH not about them

Answer 27

Because they are.

What it says in the Bible is irrelevant. It was written by ignorant men 1800 years ago. They knew very little about anything.

Answer 28

Yes they were created in god's image.





Your god's a horses @ss.

Answer 29

And your evidence for your claims? And how did your God get sentience then?

Answer 30

Never heard anyone say that yet.

Answer 31

Why do YOU LIE and RIDCULE God, Jesus and all Christians with your LIES?



Will you ever realise you just prove that the problem is not anything to do with atheists, God, Jesus, the bible, or even Christianity and all to do with the intolerance, hatred, bigotry, homophobia and persecution posted by BAD Christians towards others‽



ALL the other religions and atheists live in peace and are ONLY attacked by BAD Christians which causes all GOOD Christians to despair at the damage they do!



The self-destruction of Christianity is underway and the only thing that can stop it is to abandon the terrible human emotions, seek to rediscover the idea of a loving god and act like it!



BAD Christians not only drive people further away from God but are the reason so many DECENT people are becoming ANTI THEISTS!



Pew News reports Christianity is shrinking with a corresponding rise in atheism!



Five times as many Americans in 2014 said they never prayed compared to those asked the same question in the 1980s



"Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. -Mat 6:1



Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Christianity is not about hating others but about worshipping the LOVING GOD!!!!!!!

Answer 32

Dolphins are probably sentient. They have a complex language. More complex than ours. When asked to perform an original trick they discuss it and then do something new simultaneously. Very large brains. Bonobo chimps aren't far behind us.

Answer 33

No one is this stupid, you have to be a troll.

Answer 34

We were created in His image. We are Elohim.



Psa 82:6-7 I said, “You are Elohim, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.” 

Answer 35

There seems to be an epidemic of trolls getting dropped on their heads, today.

Answer 36

The more you say god created us in his image just gives me more reason to believe “god” was just a bunch of aliens that thousands of years ago took a monkey and started f*cking with its dna to create well, you and me.

Answer 37

I very much doubt whether you are this stupid, but there are some users who will remain unnamed who genuinely are. Those users will probably fall for this question.