Wesley Huff

There have been individuals throughout church history who have articulated that.

I mean, St.

Francis of Assisi was big on animals going to heaven.

C.S.

Lewis was big on animals going to heaven.

In fact, when he wrote The Last Battle, you know, the last series in his Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe books, there are animals in heaven.

I mean, if there's a new earth, I think there are going to be animals.

I don't know if they're going to be the same animals that existed on this side, but I also have no idea.

But I think there's something different because I think you have a soul.

And you think my dog doesn't have a soul?

I don't know, but I don't think he has the same kind of spiritual component that you are endowed with in the same way.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that's a testimony to kind of the general reflection of God's good creation.

At the same time, we describe when you're just repeating something, we use adjectives like aping.

We understand that there's an aspect of like if you train the monkey to push the button, he's going to push the button.

If you give the elephant the paintbrush and kind of, you know—

convince it to paint itself, it's going to paint itself.

But if you can train the elephant to paint the Mona Lisa, is it really going to understand what it's painted in the same way that Michelangelo understands it?

Sorry, Da Vinci, who painted the Mona Lisa.

Now I'm getting myself into trouble.