Creationist can you please explain extermination and extinction?

Question

Extermination is the process that a species cease to exist because of human intervention

Extinction is the natural process in which a species dies off because of lost to it’s habitat due to climate change or other natural forces.

Are you telling me that “god” is responsible for the death of millions of creatures simply because he got tired of them?

Or is it because of survival of the fittest (evolution) that some animals slowly change, adapt in order to survive its new environment?

Which answer makes more logical sense?

Answer 1

God is not responsible for the death of millions of creatures.....
sin is.

Answer 2

Ambiguity... an excellent question, but the sad part is the responses you have gotten.

You have made a solid argument against creationism, and it has been dismissed with further superstition and illogical reasoning. "God isn't the cause of death, sin is"? So animals sin? Are these people freakin' SERIOUS? Did not God create sin? Did not God create humans KNOWING, full well, that sin would be a problem? If there is a God, he is incredibly incompetent.

Survival of the fittest makes much more logical sense than creation. Creation, the notion that everything popped into existence via the hands of an all-loving and all-powerful god, has no basis in logic or reality. Gives believers the warm-'n-fuzzies, though. It's nothing more than a rehashed version of the Argument from Ignorance.

While you're at it, Ambiguity, have Creationists explain the platypus.

Answer 3

Extermination: Perhaps the result of mankind overusing their dominion over animals, or simply not being wise with their resources, which can culminate in the extermination of a particular species.

Extinction: This could be traced back even to Adam and Eve. Keep this in mind: Please don't brush off Adam and Eve as a childhood story as you read this. Because of sin, the world that was once "good" in God's eyes became imperfect. Obviously, sin is not a good thing, and since every action has a consequence, and since sin is has been happening from that first sin to even up to this minute, we are still reaping the consequences of it. One of these consequences is an imperfect world that contains physical death.

Romans 6:23 NIV
For the wages of sin is death...

Because of this, things obviously die. Species can die out as a result of sickness or some other variable. Also, the extermination process combined with the weakening results of gradual extinction as a result of sin can also culminate in a whole species simply dieing out.

Hope that this helps; God bless!

Note about a previous answer: Though God created us knowing that we would sin, did He not also provide for us a way to be forgiven, through Jesus Christ?

Titus 1:1-2 (NIV)
1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— 2a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,

John 3:16 (NIV)
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Answer 4

Well, why would extinction or extermination rule out the existence of God?

Human beings exterminate animals by choice. God created the earth but gave man free will. Man can exterminate animals if he chooses.

Extinction The climate change that eliminates cetain animal types does happen, sometimes because human interaction destroys the habitat. This is again a human choice factor and does not preclude the existence of God.

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Answer 5

Creationism means creation is happening even as I type. The whole idea of extinction whether caused by a natural process or part of divine intervention wouldn't prove or disprove the existence of God. If God exists, I would think he/she could create other intelligent beings that could contain a soul....I wouldn't think it'd be limited to just earth and just humans. The whole concept of God is that he/she is all knowing and all powerful. Thus, even evolution, would be a creation of God that is constantly evolving/creating. The ultimate creation....a creation that keeps creating. I think it's within the realm of possibility that maybe both evolution and creationism are happening at the same time.

Answer 6

Some people claim they're logical thinkers, but in reality they wouldn't know real logic if it hit them square between the eyes.

Simply put: When God decides it is time for one or all of His creation to cease to exist, then that creation will cease to exist. The created do not have the right to question the Creator on any matter, much less life. He alone gives life and He alone allows life to be taken away.

Answer 7

It's not that God would have killed the animals or gotten tired of them, but they died out and He allowed it to happen. A "logical explanation, as you call it,fordinosaurs would be that during the worldwide flood, dinosaurs were not saved, only underwater dinosaurs/reptiles were, which is where we get crocodiles, alligators, etc.

Answer 8

Neither answer makes sense. God set nature up perfectly, and yes, some species were meant to become extinct due to natural changes in the environment. But not because God "got tired of them".

But you seem to think that we should hold God up for murder for every antelope that was killed by a lion. It's nature, and it's the way it works.

Answer 9

Just because God allows things to die doesnt mean God doesnt care about them. God cares most about US, not animals. He is more interested in our faith towards him and ability to listen to him than an ancient species of butterfly.

Answer 10

God didn't do that. All of it happened because mankind, incluing you and me, have sinned. Besides, all the extinct species are in heaven now, so they didn't really die out.

Answer 11

I really don't see the main connection between the two