Hey kids! Let's play a Sunday School game! When God condemns stupid people to Hell for being, well, so dazzlingly, blindingly stupid, what do you suppose they'll have to endure?

I’m always amused at how the people who claim to believe in a very young Earth full of species individually handcrafted by a wise old male creator, are the ones who want to destroy the habitat for these creatures, don’t care about species extinction, and show such disregard for the old man’s handiwork.

God gave them his blessing and said:  Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.  I have provided all kinds of fruit and grain for you to eat.  And I have given the green plants as food for everything else that breathes. These will be food for animals, both wild and tame, and for birds. (Contemporary English Version)

Neither you nor I are Evangelical Christians, so it’s amusing that you and I are discussing how they justify obliterating what they believe are individually created species and damaging a handcrafted planet.  However, neither “subdue the earth” nor “bring it under your control” can reasonably be seen as permission to “trash everything in your path.”  I have serious doubts about the religious faith of people who claim to have reverence for a creator god and yet systematically destroy his creations.  These same people would be appalled at the idea of going to a craft show and destroying some old man’s pottery.  It appears the average atheist has more regard for our planet and its non-human life forms.

jesusluvspegging wrote:

fnord wrote:

It appears the average atheist has more regard for our planet and its non-human life forms.

Well, who do you trust to run the world responsibly: people who believe they get to go to Candyland and live forever after they die, or people who think that this is all there is and we'd better make the best of it?

Sadly, I have more trust in the absolute materialists than I do in most of those who believe there is more than we are able to perceive.  Not that it matters, but I believe the “Creative Force”, whatever you choose to call it, will let us and/or help us remove ourselves from the scene and continue its slow steady development of new life forms to replace the ones that couldn't survive our onslaught.

Sadly, every animal on earth, including Homo sapiens, will foul its own nest and overgraze its food supply.  This regardless of how much horseshit is spread about "sustainability".  It is the nature of all animals and plants to aggressively overpopulate.  A die off or replacement by a better-suited species is waiting at the end of every cycle.

George Orr wrote:

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I'm not particularly a Doonsbury fan, but that is a personal favorite of mine.

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All of these end-of-days scenarios are colorfully documented here: http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm

opsec wrote:

I don't think plague, hunger or war will necessarily end the race, but we do get extinctions around here from time to time. Our poles are fluttering, we're about to traverse the galactic plane, and the Mayans claimed we're fucked. The long money's on a Gamma-ray burst.

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As a homebrewer, I supply my yeast with a carefully balanced and comfortable environment full of food and all the things they need to thrive. And, since I don't like mead that's too dry to drink, I count on my yeast (since they are pretty much unable to plan for the future) to drown in their own shit long before they consume their entire food supply..... does this make me godlike?

George Orr wrote:

Tall Paul wrote:

I count on my yeast (since they are pretty much unable to plan for the future) to drown in their own shit long before they consume their entire food supply..... does this make me godlike?

Here's a hypothesis about our place in the universe that I had never considered before.  I think you may be onto something.

Genocide gets the creatures from the 11th dimension completely fucked up.

As the unofficial AZ rep, I will attest that this creature is locally loathed, despite the upstate tent revivals and the edgy churches scattered throughout the Valley. Which makes her a moron, by anyone's standards.