If we are going to add some sense of morality to it, then outnumbering
and dominating will not change, the issue will then become protecting
and preserving. Not preserving the way the other animals are, but
insuring all species have the opportunity to continue evolving as
opposed to extinction or preserving in current form. There is no doubt
that we are becoming the worlds caretakers - whether we like it or not.
On a different note: What's everyone think about the Japanese trying to
clone a Woolly Mammoth?? Now that is cool if you ask me - but my
friends say that that is tampering - I say, if it can be done, we should
do it!
Also - the Sun will not engulf the Earth when it expands, that is an old
concept. I believe that now we think that the Sun will lose a lot of
mass during its final years, and that the Earth will move a bit further
out in its orbit, just far enough away to become a 1000 degree cinder
ball floating in space.
Sodom
Nathaniel Hall wrote:
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> Eric Boyd wrote:
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> I don't think that one can support any ideology which derives what
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>> should be from what is... that is, just becuase we out number them
>> doesn't
>> mean we should.
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>> ERiC
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> A valid point, but if life has any purpose at all it is to live.
> Since we are the fittest of the bunch due to the powerful nature of
> meme replication, we are life's best hope. When the sun expands and
> engulfs the earth billions of years from now, I'm confident that life
> from earth will be all over the universe, thanks to man.