Edmund Storms wrote:
thomas malloy wrote:
Ed Storms replied
The great Christian cultures are rapidly destroying the rain
forests, over fishing the oceans, and polluting the atmosphere with
CO2. In other words, a large number of Christians are taking several
approaches that may well destroy our own culture while spending
their political support and money trying to save other cultures from
"evil". How do you deal with this problem?
Have you ever seen bugs (microorganisms) grown on a petri plate? They
overgrow the medium and die. Well the Earth is a petri plate, and
sustainability is a liberal myth.
In other words, your God has made mankind unable to resist destroying
the earth and only by his intervention will the "ideal" people be saved.
Perhaps it is worth pointing out that there is an issue of fact here as
well as an issue of philosophy: the "inevitable" crash in the petri
dish isn't really all that inevitable.
A petri dish with ONE kind of bacterium will indeed show a boom/crash
pattern and the whole bacterial "civilization" will end up dead. In
general, any _simple_ closed ecosystem with no input but energy will
show such a boom/crash pattern. However, as the number of species
increases, the stability of the system as a whole typically increases,
and when the number of species is allowed to become really enormous, one
can achieve a level of stability that may allow a healthy ecosystem to
survive for billions of years. The world around us provides an obvious
demonstration of that (unless you're glued to the "young earth" model,
of course).
Biodiversity is not just good for tourism. It's apparently one of the
requirements for having a stable ecosystem.
