Chimpanzees have Rights Too…?
Just when you think the U. S. has reached the ultimate point of weirdness… World magazine reports (May 16, 2015) something that might surprise you. On April 20th of this year, a judge in New York gave legal rights to a couple of chimpanzees. These chimps are under the control/care of Stony Brook University.
Barbara Jaffe, the judge, extended to the chimps the right of habeas corpus. Habeas corpus is a legal instrument by which one cannot be imprisoned without cause. The chimps’ names are Hercules and Leo and Jaffe is demanding Stony Brook provide cause for the imprisonment of Hercules and Leo!
These court cases, which are popping up here and there around the country, are instigated by the Nonhuman Rights Project. Other lawsuits have not succeeded. This is the first to go this far. Giving chimpanzees rights? The world has gone mad! At least a certain judge, in my opinion, in a courtroom in New York.
Where will it end?
There is a world of difference between chimpanzees and human beings (as if you needed me to tell you). They are supposedly our closest living relatives. If that’s the case, the kinship is hard to see. Yet, the effort to mix species runs rampant.
Adam Rutherford, in his book Creation, writes: “It doesn’t take a great leap of faith to see that we are closely related to chimpanzees or gorillas. Only a designer setting out to deceive or fundamentally lacking in imagination or effort would create things so similar and pretend that they were not cousins” (pg. 32).
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On the same page, Dr. Rutherford wants to use a Ford Pinto and a Porsche 911 to illustrate the point. These vehicles are different, writes Rutherford, in the details of the engine, the design, the tires, et cetera. But “are both cars, derived via successive iterations from a common ancestor, one that bore an early version of the internal combustion engine built from metal and powered by fossil fuel.”
The comparison is ludicrous. Did the Porsche 911 and the Pinto come from a “common ancestor”? Only in concept! In reality… Google a Pinto and a Porsche 911. Even on the external appearance of the body structure you can see if there were to be a common ancestor in vehicles, there would have to be tremendous alterations made, just to the body of the car! Can you imagine how the schematics would be different between such cars!? I’m absolutely no expert on engines but I can imagine how different these two vehicles would be inside the engine.
To get from Henry Ford’s Model T to a Porsche 911, there would have to be massive alterations from beginning to end. No, the Porsche 911 and Pinto (and Model T) may argue for a common designer but not a common ancestor.
The same is true with the chimpanzee and the human being. Their similarities would argue for a common designer but hardly a common ancestor.
There is a world of difference between the chimpanzee and the human. We are made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). They are not. What will happen in a country when legal rights are extended to animals? Only God knows.
–Paul Holland
