You don't need to think the human species is chosen, just that it's extremely unusual. It's not superstition to notice the worldwide explosion of human populati

You don't need to think the human species is chosen, just that it's extremely unusual. It's not superstition to notice the worldwide explosion of human population displacing many many specialized species (e.g., top predators). It's not superstition to notice that even though many species are capable of manipulating their environment in complicated ways (e.g., a million variants on the concept of "nest," some quite sophisticated), only humans have picked various certain low-hanging fruit at all (e.g., fire), and human progress on other low-hanging fruit where other species have made a little progress (like tools/weapons and agriculture) is so far beyond other species it's ridiculous. The existence of an unusual property (or properties) of humans which cause the observed unusual result is not absolutely guaranteed, but expecting that there are such properties is not just superstition.