(January 28, 2010 at 11:18 am)leo-rcc Wrote:(January 28, 2010 at 10:56 am)rjh4 Wrote:(January 27, 2010 at 6:25 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: Put a man in a forest or other wilderness, and that man will soon lose any notion of "dominion" over the rest of nature. You either respect the flora and fauna or you are dead. You either become part of nature or you die.
Hmm...it seems to me that that has happened many times in the past and the result is an expansion of the civilized world. Seems to me that even this supports the notion of dominion over the rest of nature.
No it doesn't. It means humans have learned to adapt to their surroundings in order to survive, by transforming their surroundings. We are doing nothing different then termites do in their hills. We do not have, nor will we ever have dominion over nature. History has taught us that on many occasion.
Sorry about that...I failed to see where the conversation turned and then got caught up in what was said. My original position was that man was given dominion over the animals, not nature in general. You expanded the concept to all of nature which I never meant to do (since there is nothing in the Bible even to indicate that we have dominion over all of nature)...but did anyway as you pointed out. Certainly we have no dominion over weather and things like that. So to that degree, I agree with you but I still think there is evidence of mankind having dominion over animals.