Wrong. When I get up in the morning, I am faced with a choice. I can do nothing productive and earn the results. (nothing) Or I can choose to do my chosen work and reap the satisfaction and the means to feed my family. This is not set in my genes, it's free will.
Maybe if I believed the evolution garbage that is taught in our colleges I could begin to understand why you think as you do. I guess I was "lucky" in that I grew up in a generation who was taught that if you want to acheive something, it requires effort. Each and every one of us has the genes that could create a serial killer or a saint. It is simply a matter of the choices that we make every day that determines which we will become.
Break free from my nice world? To find what? A meaningless existance, where everything is relivative and truth does not exist? No thanks.
Not wrong, didn't I say that there were 3 factors? Genes (which results in the body you are), environment, and memory (which is in fact part of your body too). The choice you make is based on the environment you're in, your memories, and your physical structure. Nothing else influences that choice. It's all just chemical cascades in the brain and throughout your body that cause these choices, and you "making that choice" in your train of thought is just the feedback you get from those reactions and the way you transfer input from your memories and environment to influence those reactions. Nothing more to it.
You don't have to believe evolution, you can only accept it, since it's a fact! You don't need faith to accept evolution, it is going on around us every day. I'm pretty sure you have a very limited understanding of evolution, since I've never met a person before who both understands the theory and rejects it. So do some research, learn some more about it before you judge it...
Break away from your imaginary world, and find reality, where you actually understand what is going on and have more control on it, instead of relying on figments of your imaginations that you created to explain for things you don't understand.
If we are nothing but animals, what makes us special, as you say? How do you know there is no such thing as a soul? Because that is what you were taught? Have you considered that you may have been decieved and that you really are in a proving ground that will determine where you will spend eternity? Think about that for awhile...does the idea of a life with purpose resonate somewhere in your heart? What could you become if you let yourself believe? You are not an animal, you have purpose for being and a destiny to discover that is yours alone. Life is not a accident. It's the beginning of a grand adventure....
We are special, just like ants are special, or baboons are special, or sulfur-reducing bacteria are special, because the human species has something that sets them aside from other species, just like all other species.
I know that there is no soul, not because I was taught that (my father believes in a soul and my mother is neutral), but because it is the only logical outcome after I apply all my knowledge of this world. I know I'm not in a proving ground, and if you would do some more of your effort to learn about the real world, learn about science, you would know that too.
Don't be so vain as to say that we are not animals, because we are.
You can't grasp the fact that life can arise from dead material because you have insufficient scientifical knowledge. That's all there's to it.