For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity. All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust. Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
Materialistic evolution mistakenly insists that humans are no more than animals. According to evolutionists, humans may have evolved farther than animals, but humans are no more than animals. Amazing what foolishness people will believe once they have rejected the truth!
But doesn’t Solomon say the same thing in Ecclesiastes? No.
He points out that humans and animals both die. In the matter of death, humans have “no advantage over animals” (v.19).
When he says all go to one place, he is not saying both humans and animals have a life after death or that humans and animals both go to Hell. Speaking of death as the Old Testament does frequently, Solomon says humans and animals go to the same place—death, or the place of the dead. (v.20)
But Solomon also affirms (v.21) that after death, humans “go upward,” which is a way of saying that humans return to God “above.” Contrariwise, when an animal dies, it “goes down to the earth,” meaning, it “goes down to the earth, from whence it came, and is resolved into it, and is no more.” (John Gill)
Humans are created in the image of God. Those who say humans are merely animals insult the God in whose image we were created!