Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: January 18, 2025, 7:21 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Why do animals go extinct?
#11
RE: Why do animals go extinct?
Those species chose to become extinct. Duh.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
Reply
#12
RE: Why do animals go extinct?
(July 9, 2013 at 3:45 pm)Rationalman Wrote: Just a thought that popped into my head and I would like a theists explanation of this.
God is all powerful right? and all knowing? So why would he create imperfect animals that go extinct? Could he not have seen into the future and seen which animals had flaws that would be fatal? Could he not have just not made the imperfect animals in the first place.

Another quick question. I have heard some theist opinions on global warming and world threatening crises like these. They claim that god wouldn't allow the earth to be destroyed. But if thats true, why does he allow animal species to die? This reduces the biodiversity of the food chain and could ultimately contribute to the destruction of life on this planet (that is if an asteroid or radiation from a gamma ray burster doesn't get us first)

Not trying to score points here, just interested in theists thoughts.

Because God is a gap answer, and the fact of evolution isn't a comic book or sexy enough like the fantasy they swallow.
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Why did god only make exactly the number of talking animals that he needed? godlessheatheness 41 9641 March 26, 2017 at 10:04 pm
Last Post: The Industrial Atheist
  Are there animals in heaven? Mermaid 53 10348 November 7, 2015 at 3:25 pm
Last Post: Thumpalumpacus
  Does God love animals more than humans? Metis 34 8250 June 26, 2015 at 7:37 pm
Last Post: ignoramus
  Oh NOES! Talking Animals In Fantasy Stories Nope 13 3282 February 27, 2015 at 7:34 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  Slavery and eating animals Grasshopper 124 18307 February 7, 2015 at 11:47 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Will the church of England go extinct downbeatplumb 2 1242 November 19, 2013 at 4:53 pm
Last Post: Jacob(smooth)
  Can Christianity explain how animals are so locationally diverse Superposition 20 9840 July 16, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Last Post: Minimalist



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)