Origin of Life: early land life (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 07, 2013, 15:27 (4127 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony: The dodo, and a great number of other species simply did not 'go extinct'. We killed them off. Don't attribute humanity's choices to wastefulness on God's part. As for those creatures that DID go extinct naturally, I can think of two very good reasons why that is not 'wasteful'. First, if they have served the purpose they were created for, then it is not wasteful, they have merely fulfilled their purpose and been retired (I am not asserting that is what happened, just musing on the subject.) Secondly, the creation of a group does not necessarily guarantee that every offshoot of that group would endure forever. Secondly, the major 'kinds' or families have, except in the case of a catastrophic event or human intervention, not gone extinct. Certain lineages may have died out, but the kinds do endure. 
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> In terms of stars going nova, even that serves a purpose. The ejected material goes into the formation and dispersion of new materials into the universe and the energy and gravity wells left behind help shape and maintain the balance of the universe. You seem to think that just because something, as a whole, doesn't last forever that its creation was wasteful. -What dhw forgets is the 'balance of nature'. Organisms eat living things to live or consume plants to live. Everytime we introduce the wrong thing into the balance of nature it becomes unbalanced. Ask Australia about rabbits. There is a purpose in extinction as part of the pattern of life.