Dennis Prager Show - Ultimate Issues: The Difference Between Humans and Animals
Aired: 2021-03-03
Duration: 04:21


=== Soul vs. Belief (04:21) ===

[00:00:00]  Western civilization is based on the belief that the human being is different and inherently more valuable than an animal.
[00:00:11]  That is correct.
[00:00:13]  1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776.
[00:00:20]  Do you differ?
[00:00:22]  Have you taught this to your children?
[00:00:25]  Have your children ever learned this?
[00:00:27]  I don't mean your six-year-olds.
[00:00:29]  I mean your 16 and 26-year-olds.
[00:00:33]  Have they ever learned this rule of life?
[00:00:39]  The human being is different.
[00:00:47]  There are those who say animals have souls.
[00:00:49]  I think they might, but in a different way than we have a soul.
[00:00:53]  It is we who have a soul.
[00:00:57]  There is an independent me of my body.
[00:01:04]  That is the belief.
[00:01:05]  By the way, the whole belief that there is a hereafter is predicated on there being obviously a soul.
[00:01:12]  If there's nothing other than your body, then clearly there is no hereafter.
[00:01:16]  So there are a lot of ramifications to this belief.
[00:01:23]  Quiet, everybody.
[00:01:23]  1-8 Prager 776. And let's go to Craig in Southfield, Michigan.
[00:01:33]  Hello, Craig.
[00:01:35]  Yeah, hi, Dennis.
[00:01:36]  It's an interesting observation that every time one of these professors has an article in something like the New York Times, that they always depreciate the value of a human being.
[00:01:49]  That's correct.
[00:01:52]  And they're not honest at all.
[00:01:55]  Or they're really stupid.
[00:01:57]  Because even if we were just animals, the fact that we have language, like that we can have a future, which is a concept that occurs in language, right?
[00:02:09]  It's like when they should be so blown away and so amazed at this world that just happens to have...
[00:02:18]  All of the elements that we need to create, all the technology, a rubber tree that we can make rubber to make a tire, just everything.
[00:02:26]  They should be blown away more than a believer in the creation because we take it for granted that we have a God that cares for us, but this amazing planet, right?
[00:02:38]  Yeah, well, you're right.
[00:02:42]  They would respond, oh, there is a great mystery.
[00:02:46]  I mean, the best of the...
[00:02:48]  Atheist philosophers would say, oh, this is a great mystery.
[00:02:51]  By the way, I had a dialogue debate with an atheist in my fireside chat last week, an hour and 20 minutes.
[00:02:59]  My fireside chats are always a half hour.
[00:03:02]  This was an hour and 20 minutes with a major atheist.
[00:03:06]  So you might want to go to PragerU and watch that.
[00:03:10]  And have your kids watch that.
[00:03:13]  See, at the root of all this...
[00:03:16]  Is the religious question.
[00:03:22]  And in one sentence, this atheist philosopher acknowledged it.
[00:03:27]  That the distinction between human and animal is at the root of Western philosophy.
[00:03:32]  The only thing I would differ there is he said, we've tried to prove.
[00:03:36]  Nobody's tried to prove.
[00:03:37]  You can't prove that human beings have a soul.
[00:03:40]  Nothing non-material can be proven.
[00:03:43]  I don't believe God's existence could be proven.
[00:03:46]  I've never once said I could prove.
[00:03:48]  I can argue persuasively that the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of a creator.
[00:03:58]  That I could argue, but never a proof.
[00:04:05]  None of us works on proofs.
[00:04:08]  We all work on suppositions.
[00:04:10]  The atheists...
[00:04:11]  who believes that it is good to be kind and not cruel, that's a belief.
[00:04:19]  Everybody works on beliefs.