WE’VE a humdinger of a squabble on the Lancashire Telegraph website after last week’s column highlighted our species’ refusal to grant human status to unborn babies.

In the red corner we have, mostly, the humanists.

These are not to be confused with humanitarians nor humanities, both of which are fine.

Humanists defiantly deny God, and they doggedly recite and practice their “we-believe-there-is-no-god-but-us” creed.

The first humanists were Adam and Eve, who decided to choose their own menu for life rather than their Creator’s which lacked the fruit of a certain tree in the Garden of Eden.

In the blue corner is me, suggesting that humanism leaves us in a godless mess – such as having slaughtered 20 million unborn babies since the seventies.

At stake in this online tiff is the real issue - our relationship to God.

The Bible claims we’re made in his image (Genesis 1), and killing 20 million living images of our Maker is not our brightest idea.

Humanism also leaves us lost elsewhere. Take animal rights, for instance.

When humanists erase the biblical teaching that God is the final reality and that we’re made in his image, then man ceases to have any real value.

In other words, human life is no different from animal life. And it goes further.

If there’s no Creator, then we’re all just chemical images haphazardly cocktailed.

That means there’s no difference between us and a tomato, or even that stuff you stood in on your grass verge the other day.

Life’s far rosier with God back in the picture, isn’t it?