What makes humans human? What seperates us from the other great apes, if anything?
I once heard a speaker say humans are set apart by their ability to make bread. The creativity it takes to turn wheat into flour and flour into bread. The prior planning it takes to plant, harvest, and store wheat.
I think in this age of supermarkets and processed foods it's easy to forget just how amazing, how human, the simple act of making bread is. To make bread wheat must be turned into flour and the flour combined with other products: eggs and milk which are most easily obtained by domesticating chickens and cows. It's similar to construction in that it combines multiple materials into a new and useful thing that is almost unrecognizable from its building blocks.
Perhaps that is what is truly human, the image of God in humans, the ability to see not what something is, but what something can be.
Yes, I know that other animals use tools but there is a marked difference between using sticks as tools and mining iron ore, turning it into steel, and sheathing it in a synthetic polymer to make a screwdriver.
Before I end this post let me clarify the things I am NOT trying to do. I am NOT trying to spark a creation/evolution debate. I am NOT denying evolution. I'm simply asserting that humans are different than other animals. We see potential in the world around us and we have potential ourselves which we can use for good or bad.
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