Confusing example, since both statements are saying the same thing. "Exalting" the "higher" animals over the others is roughly equivalent to thinking there's a

Confusing example, since both statements are saying the same thing. "Exalting" the "higher" animals over the others is roughly equivalent to thinking there's a God. More precisely they both evidence the same fond desire, and intellectual bias, to impose a dreamed-up hierarchical structure on nature, rather than to describe nature itself. Presumably the first speaker wishes Man to be the God, whereas the second wants God to be the God. Occam's Razor is that they're both wrong and there's no hierarchy or God necessary.