If every single one of us somehow disappeared right now, this world and the miracle of life would still go on, and grow, and change, and thrive, etc. Of course not human life, but life itself would continue to live on...
How important are humans in the scheme of things?
Please, no patent religious answers.
Thanx
2007-03-20 11:16:50 · 18 answers · asked by .. 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Does it matter to the world? The earth doesn't need us. We need the earth tho. tx:))
2007-03-20 11:22:04 · update #1
Not talking about making the most of life. This question has nothing to do with me personally.
2007-03-20 11:23:14 · update #2
just curious as to our importance. Not saying we aren't important...just wondering how important....
2007-03-20 11:24:57 · update #3
we are of extreme importance if the scheme of things includes total destruction of all beauty, love and life on earth..i sometimes think maybe we evolved so that we can slowly kill off this beautiful planet, like the parasites that we all are...so that something better can take our place....just another phase in the life of mother earth..
but if it includes the continued presence of life as we know it, then we are dispensable, unnecessary...or maybe it's imperative that by some miracle the whole human race gets wiped out (the sooner the better)...so that the miracle of life continues...
2007-03-21 05:59:12 · answer #1 · answered by S 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The world could not exsist with out humans. the world would be covered in trees that would take the sunlight from plants below. Walk in a thick woods sometime and you will see the ground is covered with dry ground. Pine trees are the worst and would take over then when sunshine can't get to the ground below trees start to die.
Without people to keep waters from overflowing the waters of the ocean would take over the lakes and rivers and streams the land would be under water too some day.
Without people to work the land and keep our earth beautiful
it would just be another planet in the sky.
Yes we are important to the scheme of the earth as we know it. Without us the earth would thrive as we know it.
2007-03-20 11:34:23 · answer #2 · answered by heavenhurtsandie 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Boy do you have low self esteem if you don't know how important we are in the scheme of things.
Of course no one is indispensable, after all people do die, and the world still continues, But if we were giving, kind, and charitable then of course we were very important. Guess you don't know about those things otherwise you wouldn't have asked that question. Where you just trying to be philosophical?
2007-03-25 07:47:57 · answer #3 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are the most important thing in your reality, like it or not. Without the context of 'self,' every other thing IS meaningless. Have you heard about the new Borneo leopard? New species of animal, right? Fantastic, right? Exciting, right? Well, with no 'we' (that is, humans) nothing would care about that leopard one little bit, except for the animals they ate, and they wouldn't care for very long. So, to directly answer your question, we are both the most important thing ever, and not important at all, but that's life, right.
2007-03-20 11:33:48 · answer #4 · answered by eine kleine nukedmusik 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Importance is in the eye of the beholder.
In the scheme of things for nature, not terribly, though we do represent a minor (or major) threat.
From teenager's view people are everything. (I am one...)
From a pet dog's view we may be the most fun thing in the world, and an important part of thier life.
PS but would nature be better? If you take anything out of an entity, be it a flaw or not, the entity is no longer complete.
2007-03-20 11:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lemme get this straight....the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years, exceeds ordinary human comprehension...right? a time interval vastly greater than all of human history.
Another thousand times farther takes us to distant cluster of galaxies, but even then, that would be less than one ten-thousandths of a percent of the observable Universe. We are mere specks in an abyss of time and space.
With that backgroud, you're telling me that there's some imporantance to mankind?.....don't make me laugh.
Did you know that there's a certain percentage of scientists who believe in God, even Einstein spoke of him often. But the greatest number of non-believing scientists are the astonomers.
The hundred billion galaxies of our visible universe, each with a hundred billion stars, makes us but a grain of sand on the Sahara, grown out of that original "pure vacuum" or nothingness. The the Perspective of the Universe, Man does not exist.
2007-03-20 18:37:32 · answer #6 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simply put, we are the disease that is killing off the planet. Our callus waste of resources and pollution will destroy all life on this planet (save some plants and insects) and then the process will start again. Our importance it seems is in the destruction of the planet, not the planet's need for us.
2007-03-20 11:35:02 · answer #7 · answered by tony n 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally think that humans are a nuisance to all the other life forms. We are messing up the earth. I think that we while be the destruction of life... that or a black hole.
2007-03-25 15:18:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we like to make ourselves more important than we actually are. You're right, without us life would go on. And personally, I think that life would be better. We cause harm to ourselves, each other, our environment and other species.
2007-03-20 11:25:09 · answer #9 · answered by 18289 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, we're probably important only to ourselves. The world was here before us, and will remain after.
2007-03-25 11:00:14 · answer #10 · answered by akdonzilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋