Also says so:
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
However, someone else disagreed.
Plato, Laws 903c
O perverse man, is one, and tends therefore always in its striving towards the All, tiny though it be. But thou failest to perceive that all partial generation is for the sake of the Whole, in order that for the life of the World-all blissful existence may be secured,—it not being generated for thy sake, but thou for its sake. For every physician and every trained craftsman works always for the sake of a Whole, and strives after what is best in general, and he produces a part for the sake of a whole, and not a whole for the sake of a part;
Source:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... g=originalIt is time to put an end to domination, it no longer works that way and is no longer sustainable, what ultimate good do we hope to achieve?
Every 30 seconds a living species disappears, I too, like Jorb, want to defend diversity and not only that of man, but it is precisely the domination, the warlike ego that is leading to a single ideology, the Greeks called all this
Hubris, we are not God, we'd better adjust to the universal harmony.