Do humans have a faith instinct?

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

to feel smug in their superiority over the universe.

Huh?

The Abrahamaic religions put humans (made in God's image), pretty much at the top of the heap with just one being (and possibly angels) superior. Humanity is the acme of Creation.

A nonreligious viewpoint can only say we're cleverer than anything else we've met, and we're unlikely to meet anything else, due to the staggering size of the universe. Smarter than anything else on this speck of dust is hardly superiority over the universe.