Balance of nature: wolves and bears (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 16, 2017, 20:39 (2624 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Not fair. Skips balance of nature, providing energy for life to evolve. Life dies. Evolution implies passage of form from simple to complex. Of course 99% are gone. That supports my analysis.

dhw: So wild animals are perfectly capable of working out a necessary balance for 99% of them to die. Anyway, I thought it was your God who worked all this out, by specially designing them so that life could keep going (with a 99% drop-out rate) until he could dabble with the brains of a few of their descendants. Why is this “not fair”? I thought that was your theory.

DAVID: God designed the species so balances could be maintained. It is my theory. You twist it.

dhw: I thought I was merely restating your theory. Please tell me what I have twisted.

Of course 99% die. That is evolution, and one of your twists. Balance of nature is absolutely necessary, and you sneer at it as a concept.