My pastor told me this.....I’d never thought of it that way.
Elevating above man, what God gave man dominion over.
But that's a paradox. The "other animal species" eat each other and otherwise compete for resources. If we're nothing more than another species of animal, that argues in favor of our simply doing our best to be the biggest, baddest species on the block, like all the others do.
So they say we're no different, then use that to tell us to behave in a way that doesn't make sense unless we're fundamentally different. They can't even get their own orthodoxy to make coherent sense.