God prefers to keep his followers worldly ignorant. :think: Have you ever considered exactly why that is....or has blind faith completely supplanted that very thought process?
And where did He explicitly state, "You are not animals"?
1 Corinthians 15:39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
Seems like both of you are ignorant to me.