Of Specious Design

What a charming and utterly
disarming scene; one's arrival 
avidly anticipated by creatures
unskilled in conveying their
appreciation of the presence of
those not of their own species,
affirming that there exists complex
interrelations, a symbiosis of gain
and pleasure and survival in Nature's 
ineffable design, her formulae and
procotols puzzling but orderly and 
clockwork-precise, from the
revolution of planets around their suns
to the evolution of various strains
of animal life upon Earth, evincing
their intellectual powers.  We
entertain ourselves, we of the
highest ordained order on the
evolutionary scale, by offering
peanuts to squirrels, a lower order
of mammalian life and they accede
to our little conceit, deigning to be fed
in lieu of their quite capable abilities
to fend for themselves amid plenty.
Be it therefore well understood that
humanity's self-designated status
as the superior among all is specious.