love for God. The world is God's creation. To love God is to love his creation and to revere all the life in it (Reichenbach 64-65).
However, the Christian ethic concerning the use of animals has not always been gentle and generous in its reverence for animals. The third pertinent theme stems from the view that God intended the entire created order for human use. God gave Adam dominion over the beasts, and Adam's progeny continued to exercise it (Turner 2). St. Augustine's general position on human obligations to animals was that animals did not exist: "Since beasts lack reason . . . we need not concern ourselves with their sufferings" (Turner 142). From this perspective, humans have dominion over animals and may use them as they see fit for their own benefit. The laboratory use of animals can never become morally disreputable, although questions may be raised about whether or not particular circumstances involving animal use embody the ideals of good stewardship (Baird and Rosenbaum 11). In fact, the biblical
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