This is going to be difficult to explain in a short-answer forum like this one, but basically, I don’t believe in “man, the measure of all things,” but I DO believe in man, God’s Agent to the rest of the universe. Being human is mostly about responsibility as a fully conscious being. We are to be protectors, husbandmen, nurturers, which places us in a unique position among living things, not to lord it over them, but to be God’s Agents in taking care of them. A job, I might add, at which we have so far mostly failed.