We don't know what it's like to be a different animal. Seeing us as being above them is myopic. To use Nagel's example, a bat. Bats live without the need for cities and inventions. Why put so much value on things like houses and vehicles? Bats take flight, live in caves and see with their ears. That may be equally divine, as in god's chosen animal or not at all. Who are we to say? Do we speak for god? I don't trust people who make such claims. They speak in blank rhetoric and offer no substance.
Why should human beings presume to be divine creation? It's pure narcissism and completely unfounded to do so. At what point in human evolution did divine nature manifest? With Flores Man? Denisovan? Neanderthal? Were those cave dwelling, club wielders forsaken by god, like dogs and dolphins? What a prick of a god.
God is not fully knowable because people can't decide what he is. I don't blame him. He's just a character in a play.
Why should human beings presume to be divine creation? It's pure narcissism and completely unfounded to do so. At what point in human evolution did divine nature manifest? With Flores Man? Denisovan? Neanderthal? Were those cave dwelling, club wielders forsaken by god, like dogs and dolphins? What a prick of a god.
God is not fully knowable because people can't decide what he is. I don't blame him. He's just a character in a play.
