Argument against Christianity #1: Humans are mere animals, just a variation on the same biology shared by the rest of the animal kingdom

This argument against Christianity is quite logical and legitimate ... except it is untrue.

Is you really look at beasts and man, the startling thing is not how much they are like beasts, but how different they are. Apes may have hands but they don't do much with them. They don't play the violin or eat with a knife and fork. Elephants don't build ivory temples, even in a primitive style. Camels don't paint pictures. In be hives, there are no statues of the gorgeous "Queens of Old". And so on.

"We talk of wild animals; but man in the only wild animal." -- GK Chesterton

Only man can be unpredictable and act against type. Only man can be a criminal or a monk.

Common Sense 101, Alquist