Aren't subjects of a domain supposed to be cared for and looked after?
2006-09-11 05:53:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess He wasn't too bothered by their being gone...Actually, when he's really mad, He just kills everyone. Remember Noah's Ark? He was PO'ed at some point by Sodom & Gomorrah...Even though He claims to be perfect and never regrets his decisions, apparently the dino's got on His nerves.
2006-09-11 06:18:20 · answer #1 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily. Animal species become extinct al the time by simply dying off or being unable to reproduce because of some sort of sickness or defect. Man should try everything he can to help prevent this awful tragedy, but not all can be saved obviously. Besides, how were the cavemen supposed to save the dinosaurs? No medical knowledge of their bodies, not a lot of information about their personal habits and etc. existed in such a a way that man of that era would've been helpful in saving them. God gave Adam a basic dominion rule and as generations passed and knowledge increased, man became more aware of how to help certain species thrive and survive, but environment, "survival of the fittest" and such makes it impossible for man to be blamed for all the extinction.
2006-09-11 14:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a false delimma. You are saying that poor dominion results in exstinction., but fails to take into account other causes for exstinction beyond human control.
Apply the same logic: I have a baby boy. He dies at birth. Therefore I must be a bad parent. This is falacious, because the baby could have died of other causes not related to parenting.
Again apply the same logic: New Orleans is under the dominion of the United States of America. People die because hurricane Katrina floods the city. The government is responsible for those deaths because they could not stop the hurricane. This is falacious, because there is nothing the government could have done to stop the hurricane from hitting the city. It's bad logic to conclude the way you do.
2006-09-11 13:09:52 · answer #3 · answered by The1andOnlyMule 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We weren't around when the dinosaurs went extinct; hell, there were hardly any mammals, much less men! How responsible were we for that?
We kill animals for food and clothing and have been doing that since the beginning. Some probably interpret THAT as a hideous dereliction of duty (I believe they are called vegans). But is it?
There are animals going extinct for either natural or man-made reasons that no one would even be aware of if not for man giving the animals names and identities and studying them. That snail darter that there was such a hullabulloo about years ago? Who would even have known about that animal if not for men and women who study those things?
Further, God knows that man is not perfect. He knows that man is made to make mistakes. Perhaps He did this to test man's ability to learn from those mistakes, and we have, to a certain extent. But if God wanted the perfect emperor of the animals, He could have -- and certainly knows He could have -- done much better than give their control to man.
So, I disagree that man has been totally derelict in his role as having dominion over the animals. Sure we could do better but we could be doing much worse, too. Within our flawed selves we carry on as best we can.
2006-09-11 13:04:29 · answer #4 · answered by DR 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, dominion can infer the right to decide whether an animal is worth keeping around or not. Maybe we saved the world by killing off the dodo bird. Who knows?
2006-09-11 13:00:04 · answer #5 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup. And admittedly, we have blown it. Indeed they are to be cared for and looked after, although we also have permission to eat them as well. But then again, it's not as though all people believe as we do, and are more than happy to deforest an ancient rain forest (thereby making who-knows-how-many creatures extinct) for the sake of making paper, instead of wondering what all lives in there, and how to protect them.
2006-09-11 13:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is just part of the earth wearing down. People who believe in evolution should consider the fact that the earth is running down, not building up or evolving into something.
2006-09-11 13:03:15 · answer #7 · answered by Rhonda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no.
Animals become extinct all the time with or without man.
It depends on how much you adhere to natural selection.
2006-09-11 12:56:25 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas V 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always wondered what dodo meat tasted like..
must have been good to hunt them extinct...
2006-09-11 13:04:53 · answer #9 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Man doesn't interact with every creature on the planet.
2006-09-11 12:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋