> Human history is filled with examples of us thinking we are special or at the center of the universe For as long as science in the modern sense has existed,

> Human history is filled with examples of us thinking we are special or at the center of the universe For as long as science in the modern sense has existed, the scientific consensus was never that we are "at the center of the Universe" (what would that even mean?). This clichéd phrase has always been used primarily by anti-science ideologues to discredit or ridicule a claimed widespread scientific hubris. And that humans are "special" in the sense of possessing certain qualities that place them in an entirely separate category from all other life on Earth is rather obvious. As a trivial example, humans are the only species from Earth that has traveled to another celestial body, and returned.