RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 23, 2016 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2016 at 7:10 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(September 23, 2016 at 6:59 pm)Gemini Wrote:*emphasis mine*(September 23, 2016 at 6:54 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: What I said could be easily substantiated, apparently you think so to since you disagree.
So I'm asking WHY do you disagree... Got it?
Here's the part you failed to understand. Why does a system of interacting organisms entail that all organisms play an essential role in the operation of the system? You're the one claiming all species other than humans are essential. What essential role to cuttlefish play, pray tell? Would the entire ecosystem collapse if they went extinct?
I love the cuttlefish, I should mention. But you should stop this nonsense. The ecosystem is natural and undesigned and in no way dependent on every species.
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Sepia_officinalis/
Quote:Ecosystem Roles
Sepia officinalis is highly active, grows quickly and expends high amounts of energy per reproductive effort. In order to meet its energetic needs, a cuttlefish will eat voraciously. Therefore, cuttlefish play an important ecological role as consumers. Because they eat a wide variety of prey and can be highly mobile, cuttlefish can fill a broad and flexible ecological niche.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_(food_chain)
Quote:Consumers dominate most part of an ecosystem. Consumers have important roles to play within an ecosystem such as balancing the food chain by keeping animal populations at a reasonable number. Without proper balance, an ecosystem can collapse and cause the decline of all affected species. This will lead to a severely disrupted ecosystem and a nonfunctional consumer web.
Now kindly sit down and shut up.
(September 23, 2016 at 6:59 pm)Stimbo Wrote: @Huggy
Then substantiate it.
I already did, apparently you're too lazy to go back a few pages.