What makes a human life more valuable than an animal's?

[po18guy]

Is this a legitimate question?

Sadly, today it seems to be. Truthfully, is there any animal that we even suspect worries about humanity? Is even capable of it?

 

[vz71]

Greetings to all,
(name removed by moderator)-The fact that we’ve evolved differently is what makes our lives as humans more valuable than the lives of animals? To Who? Certainly not the animal.
I would tend to believe that of the other animals with superior intelligence at least some if not all of them (if we could understand them) would agree that human life was of little value since we feel compelled to destroy what we call home as well as believe we are better than them.

You assume the animal to be able to rationalize.

God provided us with an immortal soul. That alone makes the life of a human of more value then that of any other animal.

God chose to commune with us in the garden of Eden, and later chose to become human himself and save us when we sinned.

I do not believe this was done for any other animal.