Quote:The evidence suggests that there is no species that is smarter.
Agreed. But being smarter than donkeys does not automatically equal being qualified to know what does or doesn't lie at the heart of all reality, an arena we can't even define.
How big is reality? Nobody has a clue.
So when we come to conclusions about all of reality based on that part which we know about, what is our sample size? Nobody has a clue.
Is it reason to come to sweeping conclusions based on a sample of unknown size? No, it's not. That's just ideology.