Do you believe in extinction? Are the dodo and the mammoth actually extinct? If God created all species, and as time goes by hundreds of them are disappearing, doesn't that imply that God's remarkable creation is becoming less & less impressive with time? Does that sound like an "All Powerful Godhead" to you? What gives?
2006-12-12 08:50:33 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Get a Grip...I said "less impressive", not "less impressed"! LOL! Do you believe in a Supreme BEing that would create something that degrades with time, rather than something that blossoms?
2006-12-12 09:10:06 · update #1
Even a self-appointed Stoner can see what nonsense "Creationism" is!
2006-12-12 09:11:20 · update #2
"Old Cynic"? Maybe you should rename yourself "Old Commonsense"...
2006-12-12 09:14:23 · update #3
To truly understand creationism one has to have the most closed of minds, the blindest eyes and the willingness to believe in the words of the most extreme and lunatic people.
These qualities would seem to be basic requirements for joining just about any religion.
Extinction is a fact, and given that (according to christians) man is made in HIS image, then god must be a pathetic specimen indeed. As the most ill prepared species on this planet, we have no fur, no claws, no shell, no venom, no strength, no speed. The only "quality" we have is the ability to obliterate anything that stands in our path. This "god" dude presides over a world of suffering and injustice, sounds more like a demon to me.
2006-12-12 09:04:24 · answer #1 · answered by Old Cynic 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm hardly an expert on Creationist theology, but as I understand it, there are a few different schools of thought in Creationist camps on the extinction problem:
1 - Things go extinct. Even though god created everything in the first place, he didn't create them all to be eternal. He has allowed many cultures (Akkadians, Hittites, Philistines and many others mentioned in the bible) to go extinct, and razed others when they displeased him (Sodom & Gomorrah, everything and everyone on Earth at the time of Noah's flood).
2 - The species that went extinct all did so at the time of Noah's flood. Why Noah couldn't fit a Comsognathus, Eryops or trilobite on the ark when he evidently got elephants on there, I have no idea. I'm not sure how a worldwide flood causes aquatic critters like trilobites, ammonites and Arthrodire fish to go extinct either.
3 - That species haven't gone extinct at all. They're just hiding. Followers of this camp usually point to things like Loch Ness and Mkele Mbembe as evidence that 'prehistoric' creatures still exist, and hope that if they are found, it will somehow prove their point.
4 - They don't think about the question at all.
2006-12-12 08:59:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You make absolutely no sense, at all. Death and decay are a natural part of life. Extinction of a species is just as natural a phenomenon as the rain pouring down on the earth. the death of a species has no bearing on God's omnipotence whatsoever. Do you die? Do you become less and less impressive with time? Bad question, chances are you do.
2006-12-12 08:58:31 · answer #3 · answered by Jose 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No this does not reflect on God other than His word is true. God turned over the rule of earth as a dominion to mankind. He also gave mankind the power of choice. Even if God does not agree with the choices we make He lets us follow through with them. To balance the power of choice He made consequences the other side of the coin, so to speak. So the extinction of species falls on mans contribution or lack of it as the ruler of his domain. If man in no way contributed, for example the dinosaurs, then it is because of divine order.
2006-12-12 09:01:46 · answer #4 · answered by David R 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe in God *and* I believe in evolution. Having said that, I don't think extinction of a species is related to whether or not the Godhead is all powerful or not. It doesn't imply anything of the sort. So .... what gives?
2006-12-12 08:56:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Certainly things become extinct. Where did you think they might disappear to? What does that have to do with God being all powerful? If you think it is becoming less impressive wait until He burns it up then all animals will become extinct.
2006-12-12 09:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God creates things that serve certain purposes for certain times.
Can't truthfully say I see any rationale to limiting God's power due to a simple fact that animals come and go.
God created a world that constantly changes. Many times, those changes involve life that adapts for the better.
Pretty smart of God if you ask me!
2006-12-12 08:57:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,they are extinct.That doesn't imply anything about God's sovereignty,just that disease,death and suffering are a natural consequence of sin in this world.It's not God's fault and all,and in some cases it have been humans who have caused the extinction due to mass hunting and exploitation.
2006-12-12 08:59:09 · answer #8 · answered by Serena 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You forget that the reason most animals go extinct is due to humans and what we do to them. Should God stop, or make it impossible for humans to cause a species to disappear? Well then we wouldn't have our free agency, and the point of us being here would be null and void.
2006-12-12 08:56:10 · answer #9 · answered by A W 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
we have fossil evidence that the animal kingdom is in a constant change. that doesnt lessen gods powers. when animals were taken on the ark. God refereed to them as their kind not species. its kinda of like that moth in europe that was originally white in order to blend in with the ash trees.but due to the large amounts of coal burned during the industrial revolution the trees turned black due to soot. Then a strange thing happened the moth became black. then when the coal stopped burning the trees reverted to white and the moths did to. is that evolution? no, its adaptation.
2006-12-12 09:01:52 · answer #10 · answered by Janos 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋