From God to Human: Rethinking the Place of Homo sapiens in the Biosphere

An empiricist would say that instead of God creating man in his own image and likeness, it was man who created God (especially the modern Gods) in his own image and likeness. Thus, by becoming the lord and master of nature, by placing itself at the top of Creation and decoupling its wellbeing from that of the rest of biodiversity, Homo sapiens gave himself the legitimacy to do and undo, to use the resources that ‘God’ had put there for its benefit at will.