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When people say “more highly evolved” aren’t they referring to greater complexity and abilities of said creature.

That would be a definition I would accept, but it was not how Genus was using it. He was referring to functions of the brain that include entering “more deeply into universal consciousness” and having “level of intellectual and emotional acuity” and in the context of understanding God. There is no thin line here, he’s already crossed in to claiming that some people have special powers that don’t really exist. I would have cut his deism a lot more slack if he had not included that.

We don’t know if we are an improved version of all other life, or if we are a virus with shoes. We don’t have the perspective to even make the judgment. We can show that we capable of compassion, but there’s plenty of evidence that we are here to destroy.