Are Dogs Human?

Think that's a ridiculous question?

Think again, after listening to the ranting of the woman on this Fox6 story. 

There IS a Divinely-ordained order of creation at play here, and it is vitally important that we maintain that order. 

The animal kingdom of dogs, cats, mice, cattle, rats (etc.) is subject to mankind; that is, mankind is charged with subduing the animal kingdom as far as necessary, but not more than that, for the overall benefit of mankind.

...One experiment aimed to determine if Abbott Laboratory's Freestyle Libre glucose monitor works when a dog is under anesthesia. Another involved injecting a blue chemical to see where anesthesia actually goes inside the dog during surgery. After the experiments, the dogs were euthanized for further study.  ...

Here is the key quote:

"We’ve sacrificed one life for another," Soffes said. [Lindsey Soffes is with Rise for Animals, an animal rights group] 

Yes.  That is what the UW (and Abott) did.

In that quote, Soffes placed animal life on the same plane as human life.  That is a fatal category error in her argument.  And it is a category error to which Bryan Polcyn (and his employer) subscribe; you'll see that in the story, too.

We do not argue that any or all animal experiments are justifiable; we take no position on the experiment described above, although users of the Libre glucose monitor probably have some thoughts, as Polcyn and Soffes might if one of those experiments saved the life of their spouse, son, or daughter.

What we do argue is that putting humans and animals on the same plane of creation is bad epistemology.  It is of a piece with the "genders" error, which should be a signal; both flow from Gnosticism, the delusion that man is smarter than God.

But we are not.