As regards the relative superiority of one species or another, I don't know on what moral grounds one can claim an elephant is better than a fox or a hound dog better than an aardvark. But it is unquestionable that there is one species that defines the survival of every other within reach, and that is the Tool Maker. The food chain is not a moral scale, but very few whales have eaten humans, and a good many humans have lit their way to bed at night with the oil of slaughtered whales.

So although we are surely not the best species, we tend to being the dominating species.

This has nothing to do with God, though.


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