BoGoWo wrote:
First I would like to applaud your creation of this thread; it may become highly edifying, if emotion is not allowed to reign supreme.
Thanks, I agree this could be a very interesting topic if its debated and not responded to emotionally.
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I take issue with your comment ".......Nature intended them to be".
(I would definitely not use a capital "N"), and insist, nature does not "intend" anything; nature is a description of the biosphere, and is not an entity, and has no "intentions; nature just "is".
I actually agree with you that nature just is, I was stimulating discussion by providing a balance and constructive question rather than filling the thread with my own personal opinion.
When I talk about Nature I am not refering to mother nature but to the nature that is everthing natural, the universe, trees etc. That nature is such an emense thing that I feel it deserves a capital N for that reason alone!
But from mankinds perspective the very existance of Nature does give it entity like qualities, we refer to it in just such a way all the time (maybe we find it easier to handle to concept that way
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Quote:Evolution on this planet, perhaps the most obvious, basic, and important "backbone" of nature, has I feel ended.
In the short history of our species Homo sapiens have evolved within the species, we have become taller, we reach puberty at an earlier age, one could argue that technology itself is a branch of evolution. Evolution may also exists in nature (note the small n here!
) it just takes place at such a phenomenally slow rate that we cannot perceive it.
There's an interesting post relating to this very subject here
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/postmonth/jul00.html
Quote:Granted, I hope, science and a major change in human priorities, could allow some retardation of this process, but biology is now at a crossroads, and in my opinion the wisest road to travel is to replace nature, not restore it.
I concur although I was using extinction as an extrapolation of endangered, the question
Quote:Do we have the right to go against evolution just because it was our evolution that created the problem? Should we play God for a 2nd time?
Maybe I should have asked "Should Mankind use technology to reintroduce extinct and/or endangered species?" Endangered yes, recently extinct due to mankind yes, extinct due to nature, no.