How ridiculous must we be as a species, if we believe we have 'dominion' over all the other creatures that make up our global and cosmological ecosystem. These preposterous religious suppositions are based on a 2000-year-old book written by primitive men who thought the Earth was flat; who thought our planet was the very center of the universe, when it's not even the center of its own planetary (solar) system; nor is it the center of its own galaxy.
The image to right was taken by the Hubble telescope. It is a picture of Andromeda, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. Andromeda and the Milky Way galaxies are only two of trillions of galaxies in the observable universe (the visible or observable universe is what we have been able to study telescopically and is less that 5 percent of the cosmos).
In Greek mythology, Andromeda is known as "the Chained Lady," and was the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia, from the kingdom of Aethiopia. The allegorical legend states that Andromeda was "chained to a rock to be eaten by Cetus the Sea Monster."
Located north of the celestial equator, Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 14,696,575,500,000,000,000 (14.6 quintillion) miles away from planet Earth. The distance can be calculated by multiplying a light-year - approximately 5,878,630,000,000 miles - by the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy: 2,500,000 multiplied by 5,878,630,000,000 = 1.4696575E+19 or 14,696,575,500,000,000,000 miles.
For those of you who want to protect the absurd fallicy that humans are the only thinking beings in the universe, and that we have a 'special place' in the cosmos, look at the image again.
"Believers" who want to keep the religious myth alive, cling to the excuse, "scientist have not found life outside of our solar system." That's because it's too far away.
Consider the fact that if we could travel at the speed of light - 186,000 miles per second - it would take about 2.2 million earth years to reach our closest galactic neighbors. Therefore, the aforementioned cherry-picking, 'God of the Gaps', biblical apologist argument that "we've not found life," does not hold water.
