Your God. Decide. Allow humans to live and all else to perish. Or, destroy humanity and save the planet?

Question

As any labtech will tell you, the culture can only grow by consuming the resourses available. As humanity continues to grow, we are rapidly outpacing the ability of the planetary resourses to provide sustanance without destroying the biosphere we so urgently need. Because of the inherent volotility of human interaction, as God, would you still consider the species a viable enough gamble for the evolution of the biomass? Or, would you wipe them out so as to save other species that have the potential to rise to the challenge of enlightened evolution?

Answer 1

Being god is not an easy task. Omniscience obscures every avenue of thought. who is to blame inside my head . . . This planet called earth stuck in a rut . . . ends itself, plays itself out without but a miniscule impact on the totality of the Kosmos. This earth, they call it, is but a mere ending pathway to the limitless thoughts inside my head . . . it helps though . . . to know how it does turn out either way brings forth new light
and I await for new light causes particles and waves to traverse the small universe in my head which yet unravels until I find myself . . . God.

Answer 2

Humans or the Planet, why do people think that you can only have one or the other? All of nature is going toward chaos, with or without mans help, this is just one of the laws of nature (the second law of thermodynamics to be exact). Yes, any labtech will tell you that the culture can only grow by consuming the resources available to it, but humans have a way of developing and using resources that a culture cannot do. So why would God have to pick one or the other? Why not just give man clues to develop a better way to use energy so that both can survive?
I don't think that this has to be an either/or choice.

Answer 3

As God has done before, destroy some and save some. To decide who should live and who should die, man must be examined and tested. Those who fail, die. Those who pass live.

All may be forgiven, but forgiveness does not ensure life. Life does not ensure comfort and ease. Just as God sent his people into the dessert even though they were not destroyed, they were chastised. Both a sword and a plowshare must be tempered with fire before they are useful.

We are supposed to be stewards of the earth. Many are, but many are not. To quote Orson Wells on his album "The begatting of a President" What profiteth a man to gain a color TV and lose his soul, brother?"

Our forefathers were stewards of the earth and laid a foundation for us as farmers and laborers, we rest on their labors and deny our children the heritage that was given to us. Out high tech, virtual world is like a cancer that consumes our time and resources. The fantasy world that we generate devours our natural resources and kills our society. The virtual society we create, has replaced the real society that is , not on-line, but right outside our door. Technology is not evil, we are just uneducated on how to use it properly.

Yes I can condemn a medium and still support it. This website is at least a viable tool for learning. Unlike some sites that are virtual and virtually worthless to society.

Answer 4

Great question. As a human I am disgusted with a big percentage of mankind, so I could only imagine how God feels. We as humans could not even pretend to be God. He loves the human race just as much as he loves the planet and although we tend to disappoint him more than make him proud, we must not forget that he is very forgiving. We could not begin to think like him because we are driven by anger, pride, envy etc. and he is not. Simply we will use the tools that he gave us like the human brain and we will resolve our problems, not all but most. Unfortunately, evil will always reside on the planet as it always has since Adam and Eve.

Answer 5

Sure, that bunch can stick around a while longer. I might be able to get some insects to figure out a better way, but the reptiles would eat them first (and you KNOW that they can't do things any better than the mammals), so I'll just leave things alone for now.

Besides, I still need people to create the largest piles of trash possible, because the next major species will need something to eat, and some major radioactivity to evolve.

Answer 6

Well, as soon as humans use up all the resources, they will kill themselves anyway without help (even without the help of the armageddon war that they are trying to get going).

As for saving the planet, the planet will survive whether humans do, or don't. That's the swell thing about the planet.

Answer 7

Save the Planet!

Answer 8

I can only imagine the answers you are going to get on this one by very closed minded people.

I don't think either solution works. I would make sure than man continues to flourish and expand his mind, therefore developing the ability to take better care of the planet he lives on as well as expand beyond it, thus reducing the amount of resources needed.

Answer 9

My answer is, from my prospective, a non theological one. However, I think that a god would have the same answer. This planet and every piece of matter in the universe is a crap shoot. Man does not matter or matter, he simply is. I have no worries for the planet, it will survive. There is no influence from man, whether it survives (in general, barring any major human intervention/blunder).

Answer 10

I think this is a great question. Personally, I would tear it all down and start again. I hate to be the pessimist, but I think humans are destructive, selfish, violent creatures... and the Earth deserves better. If I'm God, I'm pulling the trigger.