Then
God
said,
“Let
Us
make
man
in
Our
image,
according
to
Our
likeness;
and
let
them
rule
over
the
fish
of
the
sea
and
over
the
birds
of
the
sky
and
over
the
cattle
and
over
all
the
earth,
and
over
every
creeping
thing
that
creeps
on
the
earth.”
And
God
created
man
in
His
own
image,
in
the
image
of God He created him; male and female He created them
(Genesis 1:26,27).
These
scenarios
well
illustrate
an
outstanding
and
interesting
fact
about
animalkind
as
opposed
to
humankind.
Members
of
any
animal
species
generally
look
so
much
alike
that
they
are
practically
indistinguishable.
Apart
from
minor
individual
variations
discoverable
by
close
and
prolonged
examination,
any
two
members
of
any
animal
species
could
pass
as
“twins.”
This
is
so
true
that
“Flipper,”
the
famous
dolphin
of
the
mid-sixties
television
series,
was
actually
portrayed
by
six
different
dolphins.
Viewers
never
knew
the difference. On the
other
hand,
the
faces
of
any
two
humans
appear
immediately
and
distinctly
different.
With
the
exception
of
identical
twins,
no,
two
humans
look
alike,
so
that
switching
out
six
different
human
actors
to
play
one
character
would have been easily detectable.
Why
is
it
that
human
beings
have
this
unique
feature
of
being
individually
distinguishable
from
one
another?
If,
as
evolutionists
claim,
humans
are
merely
another
animal
species,
why
do
they
not
all
look
alike,
just
as
the
members
of
the
same animal species do?
The
answer
reveals
itself
as
one
considers
what
would
happen
if
all
humans
looked
alike.
What
if
police
and
crime
victims
could
not
identify
the
perpetrators?
Justice
is
possible
only
under
circumstances
which
allow
the
visual identification of the guilty.
Yet,
there
is
no
way
to
account
for
the
obvious
visual
differences
between
any
two
humans
except
by
tracing
their
origin
back
to
their
origins
in
the
moral
nature
with
which
God
created
them.
Animals
have
no
moral
nature.
They
do
not
have
a
sense
of
right
and
wrong.
They
kill
one
another
and
humans
kill
them
without
any
consideration
for
morality.
Since
moral
guilt
or
innocence
is
not
attributable
to
animals,
it
is
not
important
that
they
be
visually
discernible
from
one
another.
However,
when
humans
commit
a
crime,
it
is
crucially
important
that
they
not
be
confused
with
one
another
so
that
innocent people are not condemned.
Thus,
the
fact
that
any
two
people
look
different
from
one
another
points
clearly
and
directly
to
the
fact
that
humans
are
special.
They
are
not
animals,
they
do
not
look
like
animals,
and
neither
are
they
to
act
like
animals
nor
be
treated
like
animals.
Rather,
they
have
been
created
in
the
image
of
the
God
who
is
preeminently
concerned
with
matters
of
right
and
wrong,
as
shown
by
the
existential
fact
of
the
moral
uniqueness
reflected
in
the
equal
uniqueness
of
each
person’s
face.
Humans
look
different
because
they
are
morally
accountable
creatures,
and
each
one
of
them
would
do
well
to
prepare
himself
for
the
great
accounting
by
getting
to
know
the
Creator
and
Judge who reveals Himself in the Bible.
Of Penguins and People
In
the
March
1999
National
Geographic
is
a
picture
of
emperor
penguin
chicks
huddled
around
an
adult.
The
caption
indicates
that
the
chicks
are
so
uniform
in
appearance
that
the
only
way
parents
can
identify
their
respective
chicks,
and
vice
versa,
is
by the sounds they make.
The
same
point
is
made
in
a
more
humorous
way
by
Gary
Larson’s
The
Far
Side
calendar
for
February
20,
2002.
The
cartoon
depicts
two
penguins
discussing
the
case
of
a
dead
penguin
lying
in
front
of
them
and
the
three
of
them
surrounded
by
many
others.
The
caption
reads:
“He’s
dead,
all
right
—
beaked
in
the
back
…
and
you
know
this won’t be easy to solve.”