Yes animals do surpass us in certain areas, but not in anything like abstract thought and general intelligence, rather in aspects of environmental sensitivity related to survival. And every sense an animal has, humans with their intelligence has magnified such senses a million fold.
The excess of human intelligence does not seem to be linked to any need for survival, that alone would be worth questioning. Humans have exceeded the needs of survival by an extraordinary margin, considering that we evolved from forms that were no better than other apes and in fact may have even been more vulnerable than most apes. And this was a time of megafauna and massive predators.
And what gets labelled as supernatural may just be natural because we don't understand it. You can't believe that all the answers are contained in today's science, or accessible only to science. We have evidence in science, but whether it's good or bad evidence depends very much on perception in these areas where is evidence requires assumption and speculation, because science sees, records, studies the changes in human anatomy via evolution but does have not the slightest clue as to all the effects pushing this evolution, especially when environmental conditions have not changed so much and it was not an evolutionary necessity of do or die.
We have been bigger and stronger in the past. We have been as capable as we ever needed to be in the past, but we kept right on until we became what we are today and we are no doubt still evolving. Our mental capacity is a conundrum. It can be examined by science. They see increasing brain capacity through the ages, etc, but this is not the story alone. It seems we were progressing towards a destination rather than being forced to a destination.
Science can access the physical effects of our evolution, but not all the underlying causes, these other causations remain assumptions.
