A question about the value of man from an atheistic perspective

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Religious philosophers often say that without a metaphysical being to give value to human lives, they would be equivalent to the lives of pigs, worms, and all sorts of other living creatures. This makes even more sense given the theory of evolution, which shows that humans evolved…
What about this atheistic proposal? The reason that man has value in contrast to worms is that man now has a developed consciousness and experiences things much more acutely than other animals. The stronger the capacity for consciousness and perception, the more value the creature has because now he will perceive, suffer, and more…