You have faith that everything just poofed into existence?
Evolution is a lie
Erm wind the clock back 500 years sweetie, or 1000 years.
Romans and Greeks were creating civilisations more or less equal to our own while savages sniffed eachothers bottoms and performed primitive tribal dances in Africa.
Africans are still being eaten by insects.
Chinese are still eating insects, which is barely any better.
No, there are several species of humanoid, all of which are more intelligent than the beast, it just so happens that the European descended humanoid is the most accomplished.
Remember that before the European age of exploration there were humans on this planet... but no humanity, only the European had the fortitude and ingenuity to explore the world and connect all the species of humanoid, even the unfortunate ones.
Every animal that developed opposabal thumbs before us just used them for jerking off and died out.