RE: We don't belong here.
November 27, 2018 at 10:56 am
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2018 at 10:56 am by Brian37.)
(November 27, 2018 at 10:42 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(November 27, 2018 at 10:31 am)Brian37 Wrote: We don't belong on Mercury either.
It isn't that we do or don't belong here, but merely how evolution played out. If the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs had not hit, evolution could have easily taken a different path not involving our species.
We are an invasive destructive species. But we are also capable of great curiosity and compassion in problem solving.
We are not good at being cockroaches or penguins, but we are good at being humans. It is still up to humanity how we adapt.
The huge number of planets that we can't survive on is another indication that we weren't made for this place at all.
We can't live in space without using materials already taken from earth, we can't live on earth either without materials taken from earth. We can't even be monkeys or gorillas.
The meteor that hit this place is in itself a heavenly sign to me: did God sent it on purpose so we grow instead of the dinosaurs?
Um no, this is simply bad logic. And for the reasons I stated.
This is the same bad "razor's edge" logic Christians use too.
The water bear, look it up, has survived all 5 mass extinction events in our planet's 4 billion year history. Trying to claim we are the apple of the eye of some cosmic sky wizard is absurd. There are far more species in life that are more suited to survive another mass extinction event. Our sun will die at some point thus killing our planet and all life on it regardless. But, it is 100% certain to scientists by the time the sun dies, our species will be long gone due to our own self inflicted demise and or another planetary/cosmic event. We are finite as a species. Cockroaches and the water bear are far more suited to survive a global extinction event than humans.
I think our existence is unique and amazing too, and certainly rare considering the vastness of the universe. But I don't see any magic in it, or some cosmic string puller doing it.