Balance of nature: loss of species may bring extinction (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 14:45 (2433 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Not unfair. Balance of nature is one pillar of my theory, which you constantly poo poo, as above. The two subjects are intimately connected providing energy for life to continue over 3.8 billion years for evolution to proceed to the present. Could the evolution have proceeded without food for the survivors? Of course not. Competition for food does mold how evolution proceeds.

dhw: Of course life couldn’t go on without food. And the balance of nature changes according to which organisms can find enough food to survive. That has absolutely nothing to do with 1) your theory that evolution was guided towards the production of the human brain, and it has absolutely nothing to do with 2) the fact that humans are currently CHANGING the balance of nature in a manner that endangers both themselves and other species. You are simply using the term in two different contexts and trying to make out that 2) somehow bolsters your case for 1). It doesn’t. And I most emphatically do not underestimate the importance of the threat posed by 2).

DAVID: The only point I am making is that evolution took a long time for the human brain to appear in the process. Of course it doesn't prove it was God's intent.

dhw" I don’t think any of us are unaware that humans came late on the evolutionary scene. I’m delighted that that is the only point you are making. We can now forget about the balance of nature as an explanation for God designing every innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder in order to keep life going until he could fulfil his “primary” purpose, the production of the human brain. And I’m sure you will withdraw your comment that I underestimate the importance of the balance of nature, since I fully agree with your criticisms of human interference with the current balance.

PAX