Yes, our objective capacities, intellect etc, OK but even those sometimes get reduced to physicalities by the science-minded.
Is there some type of problem understanding the physical dimensions of intellect? Does that understanding somehow reduce its usefulness and function?
Knowing that your potato naturally contains 4-O-caffeoylquinic acid (crypto-chlorogenic acid), 5-O-caffeoylquinic (neo-chlorogenic acid), 3,4-dicaffeoylquinic and 3,5-dicaffeoylquinic acids, does this somehow detract from your enjoyment of its taste when baked with a little olive oil and salt?
But what kind of "perspective" is that since there is no consciousness in any of that? This is the very mentality I was objecting to. We can't be meaningfully compared to the mindless cold vastness of the universe at all...
No other consciousness in the universe? Pshaw! The numbers are too big and the chemistry too active for there not to be. But that's off-topic.
What is on-topic is that fact that we are as unimportant to them as they presently are to us. As far as "mattering" to our lives they are as non-existent to us as we are to them.
Plus the fact that we and the amoeba and the rock on the side of the road are all products of this vast mindless cold universe and that makes the comparisons compelling not nonsensical. And that compelling comparison is that we are all come to be from the same materials from the same sources by the same physics.
The only importance to be given among the three is the subjective value we ourselves assign.
Believing in God makes it possible to explain it though, which the physical sciences can never do.
Your fairy tale is just an excuse to assign subjective values making you feel superior to all the rest of the stuff around you in this vast cold mindless universe that really doesn't give a damn what we think.
I absolutely cannot care about the fate of the physical universe apart from Us, or apart from any living thing for that matter, but especially Us.
That is just fine. That answers Omnivorous' question. And yours is as valid an answer as any.
I, as I stated, don't so much care to any great extent other than having the intellectual satisfaction of knowing. That would be good.