This kind of recurrent objection to the plain evidence always makes me wonder about what self-esteem problems religious people suffer.
I mean - we've gone in just 6,000 years from unable to make written language to sending probes out of our solar system, unlocking the genetic code of life, probing the subatomic and mapping the galaxy. Not to mention whipping most diseases, hunger, increasing personal liberty, etc etc etc. Then there's all that philosophy, morality and ethics we've developed over the millenia that increasingly focuses on individual liberty rather than service to king or state.
Hell, I'm practically exploding with pride. If that doesn't make us pretty freaking special, I don't know what would.
Am I the only one thinking this?
Am I the only one thinking this?
I'm with you, brother!
In fact, your post & Aric2000's post about how we're on a rather insignificant planet off to the side somewhere suddenly reminds me of the Parable of the Talents. IIRC, the sons who invested their smaller endowments & made them grow impressed the father much more than the son who took his grand endowment & did nothing with it.
Any pride we humans feel about ourselves shouldn't depend on our ancestry per se. It should depend on what we do with the endowment we've been given. All morally healthy people approach life that way, IMO.