Catastrophes (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 22, 2008, 16:13 (5843 days ago) @ George Jelliss

So, if there was a creator, or front-end-loading planner, did it pre-plan all these catastrophes, that could well have proved fatal to human emergence and survival? - That there have been five or six major extinctions, at least one with a 95% destruction of life (Permian) is not new news to anyone reading about what has happened to the Earth in the past since life began. What is amazing is that life is so tenacious that it survived asteroids, climate change, volcanic eruptions, and 'snowball Earth' when the planet was covered with ice. There are bacteria called extremophiles. They survive high temperture, low temperature, no oxygen, etc. David Raup's book : "Extinction; Bad Genes or Bad Luck?", is excellent on the subject. (1991) - My answer to the question: front-end-loading made life appear more quickly than chance odds would have created it, and more resilient than catastrophies could end it.

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