According to the many religions, the divinity system used created the heavens and earth, with man being above all other species, known or not, his/her/their favored. Why? Why are we the favorite? Why are we better? What makes us better? Why are we the only ones that can sacrifice things to the gods? Why are we the only ones that can please or displease, or worship or not worship? According to the Bible, everything was created for us, humans. We are the only species allowed into heaven. Not anything else on earth nor in the universe otherwise, assuming there is other life. God only preaches to man, no other creature. Why? Are they not special? Are they not created with love, too? Does God not love them?
Of course, I just stated a fine example of human arrogance. How do I know God hasn't spoken to those animals, or that the the divinities are human-like in appearance (on the whole)? How can I assume that creatures don't have their own religions and their own sciences that we haven't been able to observe, understand or just don't see it has such?
I remember thinking, as a child, about the science ants possess. Why ants, you may ask? Well, they were there, climbing on me. It was convenient. We all see them scurrying all over in lines, going to or carrying food back to their little ant hills. How do we know what those ants were thinking when doing that? How do we know their relatively small brains makes them less intelligent than us? What if they just interpret things differently than we do? Scientists have done studies on humans that have different cranium and brain sizes. There isn't an intelligence difference. It's all about the synapses. Ants could have many more synapses in their relatively small brain per mm than we do. For all we know, they are more intelligent than we are. After all, human geniuses are taken to be out of touch with reality, or stupid.
Even if science hasn't consciously confirmed this, science claims we are the center of the universe. How do I come to that conclusion? Every piece of evidence is from our perspective. Let us take the "big bang" as an example. All of the evidence is where all of the other stars and solar systems are moving relative to the earth, to us. If the only evidence we have of the big bang is where things are moving in the universe relative to us, which would make us the nexus of the universe, then how can you not say that we feel that we are the center of the universe?
I bet if there are aliens and we converse with them, if they have other scientific or religious ideas that don't center around us, we will try to "convince" them that is the case, and if they are too strong-willed, well, war will obviously ensue. After all, that has happened so many times with religion and politics. Science is, after all, just another religious and political game, when it comes down to it. Another political-religious war because we are so arrogant to believe that we are the best, the center of the universe, that everything revolves around us, that all behaviors should be measured relative to our own behavioral norms.
We look at things so subjectively, as well as using almost exclusively the forms passed to us from antiquity, that I can not but feel that we are progressing so slowly or, perhaps, so poorly/inefficiently, because we go from only our perspective without trying to discover or create things from a different perspective (naturally, nothing we do can be purely objective, just more so).
Sometimes, when I think about it, I'm surprised we have gotten this far and lasted this long.
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