Balance of nature: saved in New Zealand (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 12:25 (2915 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "New Zealand’s great white butterfly eradication is part of a larger scheme to remove all introduced pests. In July, the government announced that it would also wipe out all rats, stoats and possums by 2050."

David’s comment: More evidence of the importance of the balance of nature.

Let me keep this in context, as you sometimes try to conflate all these examples with your theory that all innovations and natural wonders were part of God’s plan to balance nature to provide food to keep life going so that humans could arrive on the scene. The question, as always, is “important for what”? If the great white butterfly, rats, stoats and possums all disappear, nature will be balanced in favour of all the enemies of great whites, rats, stoats and possums. Nature was balanced in favour of the dinosaurs until it wasn’t. The term is meaningless as an explanation for the course of evolution. But I think we can say with some degree of certainty that it is important for humans that the balance of nature should favour humans. And it is important for rats that the balance of nature should favour rats.