The stupid "Apex" "design" argument.....

[The Grand Nudger]

Meh, I think you imagine that we're far more frail than we actually are, and almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.  There's a significant difference between ourselves and every other animal that's ever lived on this planet, and referring to their extinctions as though it made our own inevitable ignores that completely.  We're better than our biology, which is itself more than competent.  Our technology can adapt faster than our frame.  Where all other life that has ever been hits a wall we have only begun to explore our options.  In this, we are unique on earth, though obviously not invincible. It wasn't always thus, our situation was once far more precarious than it is now. That time, however, has passed. We were an apex species even then. Today, we are -the- apex species.

In any case, I'm not sure why you responded the way you did....I was wondering who made the stupid argument you referred to (and what it was, exactly).  You're railing against people who "deny the science", but you're not presenting a very faithful summary of our place on this rock and in relation to other species yourself.  In any extinction event, trust that we'll be among the last life standing...hell, we -are- an extinction event. We're already among the last life standing, and it doesn't exactly look good for the rest of them at present...keeps coming up aces for us though, huh? Probably has something to do with our unique ability to stack the deck.