to study animals. Mostly this involves no harm to the animals. Sometimes it does. Would you prefer I tested my new drug on you or would you prefer it if we administered it straight to your family when their ill without testing it first? Or how about we jump straight from cells in a dish to assuming a whole human organism will act in extactly the same way huh? I dont like it anymore than you do but its a necessary evil if you want us to make sick people better. Comment number 9. Only humans could wonder about whether other living creatures can wonder. Does it matter enough to know this to steal a creature's freedom and experiment on him or her causing distress and pain? Why don't we just observe creatures in their natural surroundings and see that they suffer. Whether they wonder or not is irrelevant because humans can't even define what they mean except by interfering with others. Comment number 10. What is the point of discovering whether monkeys wonder when we can't even define what we mean by 'wondering' except by electrical impulses? Why can't we accept that all living creatures have nervous systems that enable them to feel pain and fear? Comment number 11. Comment number 12. "5. At 10:50 21st Jun 2011, pauls32822 wrote: Willwander, clearly the Church created the myth that animals don't think. They are evil after all. That's why the Church does lots of animal sacrifice and the scientific community