When an ant builds the Sistine Chapel let me know.
I find it rather sad that you have no appreciation for the fact that these creatures were building the size equivalent of cities with full climate control millions of years before our ancestors were even huddling around a fire in a cave in a desperate struggle not to freeze to death.
A good example of co-operative intelligence which we have to be thankful for. We're not far removed at all biologically from the first families of Homo Sapiens; we are the same species with the same capacity. But comparing us
back then to other primates while we would be a few steps ahead, it wouldn't be too far beyond that. We can only appreciate the difference between us and our cousins now through human endeavor and civilisation over these past thousands of years. We did that with no external or spiritual interference. We should be proud of it; we should attribute our progress to ourselves. We should attribute the good to ourselves...but we need to take responsibility for the bad instead of 'hiving' it off to an external moral arbiter.
Why are we agressive, sadistic, brutal and discriminate? Because we need to be, without those traits we wouldn't have made it as far as we did. When society breaks down even just for a short time (see Haiti, Darfur...) we fall back on those traits to survive. At the end of it all we're lucky primates with too many teeth, residual appendixes and tail bones that settled down, farmed and civilised.
Good on us.
