if there was a infinite line, like so:

<——sentient——sapient——> 

… where it marks each stage of “awareness,” where would you personally think humans go on that line?

If you think it belongs over the “sapient” point, I’d think that’s very interesting. Isn’t it also interesting that we bond most well with animals that exhibit human-like social behavior?

Yeah it's a coin toss whether they would want to check us out further, or use the galactic form of chlorine on the area.

But odds are they would neither specifically know nor care. In likelihood I imagine there is other life, and not all based on carbon and water. There could be life on gas giants, even on suns, based on completely different chemical interactions.

What I'm trying to say is I believe in the utterly indifferent god. It likely neither knows nor cares about us. We would go to church about it, but what's the point?

We do not have all the answers, and we should accept that, from our position on this speck of dust in the unimaginably larger system we live amongst, we should just embrace that we don't know everything, despite the experts telling us affirmatively the age and size of the universe as if they could know, or the religious leaders espousing ideas the age of reason has proven to be wrong.

Part of wisdom is accepting what you don't, and what you can't know.

I don't really disagree with much of what your responded with however. Creator is a nebulous term. Creating biological machines that evolve to meet their conditions become rather removed from those creators if separated by unimaginable large distances between solar systems. There is no way any being seeding life would survive to watching it evolve over billions of years, even if some form of transport could break the speed of light, which I believe to be impossible.