Does a starving animal eating her young count as natural selection?
God’s law! That you find nowhere excdept in books that claim there is a god because that book tells you so. I have never heard of an animal that eats its own babies, but maybe there are one or two. I know that animals that usually give birth to several off spring in one birthing, do at times kill one or two of their babies. There seems to be a reason, and the mother makes the choice as she sees which will likely not become very strong and maybe become a burden on her and therefore hinder the growth of the others in the litter.
Physically humans are animals, but that is where it differs….we have a much higher level of intelligence and understanding than animals do. We can think, we know right from wrong, we can understand the words of the Bible, we can pray, we can do much more than animals can, on a higher level. What an animal does by instinct is way different than someone trying to “prove” that this means that abortion is ok. An animal does not know what they are doing is wrong, they are trying to survive. A person KNOWS they are carrying another human inside them and they know it is wrong to kill it. There is a BIG difference between the two.
Actually yes, but it is socially unacceptable to most people to be objective in such a way with our own species. As a matter of fact, it is sometimes taken to the point that the life of one individual is given more value than the survival of the group, at least in word. But seldom in practice, as can be seen in situations where survival is in obvious jeopardy. While sitting in the comfy chair, the lives of those a person would trample to get to the liferaft first in a real situation are presented as much more important. Taking into account things like resource allocation presents a problem for most people when applied to moral situations. It’s like the old story of a liferaft with just enough supplies to allow the people already aboard to survive. Would they pick up additional people in the water if they knew it probably meant none aboard would survive? Many animals will abandon their young if there is not enough food to support them, knowing that they can have more offspring later if
