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I don't know that "the universe is uniquely ordered to give rise to humans." Perhaps, but it's hardly a "fact" beyond controversy. "Uniquely" and "ordered" are unclear. But it seems the universe is no less uniquely ordered to give rise to nematodes and flounders and stegosauruses. Remember J.B.S. Haldane and God's "inordinate fondness for beetles."

I don't know what a "lower animal" is supposed to be. In the cosmos there can be no "up" and "down." If it's a matter of comparison next to an agreed-upon standard, human beings look a good bit "lower" than many other creatures, e.g. _Anser albifrons_, in the mind of T.H. White and the world of Merlyn and Arthur.