[quote=Brand] [b]It's also interesting how no one believing in intelligent design has eluded to the possibility that maybe our species wasn't the 'chosen' species in the creators vision.[b] It'd be kind of funny to see a person who believed in intelligent design and believed Dolphins or Aphids were the center of the universe. It's also funny that many who believe in Intelligent design believe that an omnipotent being would give a damn about us... haha. [/quote] There is a story I saw on Reddit called 'The Martyr' describing this exact situation: A team of men capture some aliens subject them to experiments, humanity have been in contact with these aliens for years but have realised that while they are more than happy to share information on physics and other sciences, they always deftly change the subject when asked about their psychic powers, as if they are hiding something. The experiments progress and realising humanity is finding out too much about their psychic powers, one of the prisoners apparently sacrifices himself to bring a message to their species, who come to rescue them. The men try to come up with an explanation for how the message was sent. A heated discussion ensues with the team accusing the aliens of covering up something which could benefit mankind; in the end the aliens reveal what they were hiding. It turns out that there is an Afterlife and that the living can interact with it, the Team realises that this proves the existence of the soul and ponder the ramifications of this discovery on both science and religion before asking why the Aliens would hide that humans have souls. [hider= Why?]The Aliens reply - ''You don't''[/hider]