User blog comment:NotAnEditor/Controversy/@comment-1024726-20091212205405

............not all living things have souls. Humans are set apart from animals in that they can think complex thoughts, communicate with complexly-set-up languages (in comparison to animals), and create useful devices from non-useful objects. I'm pretty sure the Bible has something in there that says animals don't have souls.... otherwise, I don't know why my parents told me that.