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"The humans are the highest intellegence in the universe argument" was used to demonstrate that athiests are either egoists or idol worshipers. Your demonstration of faith in unproven scientific theory helped prove my point.

So if he believes that humans are the highest intelligence in the universe then he's an egoist, but if he believes without evidence that there exists other life in the universe higher than humans without evidence then he's an egoist...

Sounds more like you're playing a word game.

I don't know about Doctor Doom, but I am open to the possibility that there exists "higher" (for whatever definition of "higher" you are using) life forms in the universe than humans. I have no evidence for their existence, so I can only claim that I've never heard of any -- but I don't dismiss the possibility and as such it is not accurate to say that I have claimed that humans are the "highest" forms of life in the universe.

I am open to the possibility that there exists "higher" (for whatever definition of "higher" you are using) life forms in the universe than humans

Uhh...better define "higher." Otherwise what you just said is at best irony and at worst hoodwinkery (I just made that up, and kudos to me).

I was not playing a word game. I simply used the exercise to prove to double D that even though he claimed to be an athiest he failed to come to the proper athiest conclusion that (based on present proven scientific knowledge based on the standards of anthropology)humans are the highest form of life in the universe. This is a form of egoism. Double D instead used faith to help him believe unproven scietific theory about life on other planets. This is a form of idolitry.

I am a Christian who wanted to show an athiest that everyone has a subject of worship. No one is a passive observer. We all make a choice. I think I know what Neo felt like when he first defeated an agent.-MM