Of course God will choose the brightest because the brightest eons ago reach out to a ONE singular Creator God. One might refer to this as ‘first contact’ not unlike appealing to an alien intelligence. Why appeal? Because those great religious Hebrew prophets saw the sad state of the human psyche and soul. As such they recognized the eventual demise of our race of beings due to our dual nature. Autonomy requires perfection of psyche and soul. We humans take one step forward and two backwards. We know this fact. And a higher power knew us better than we know ourselves, collectively and individually. So, suffer at our own hands, blame God?