In the Judaeo-Christian tradition, humans are more than animals, but not less.
I used to (like too many Christians) be ‘nervous’ about comparing humans to animals, or being told about (for example) chimps that can count, etc (whether they are actually ‘counting’ [comprehending a numbered sequence] or not [responding as trained to images on screen with no concept of a . . . → Read More: animal
threshing floor