2007-03-22 08:24:36 · 26 answers · asked by Atheist Eye Candy 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wouldn't a more appropriate questio be "Is there any species in the world that cannot become extinct?"
The answer to that would be no. Even humans can become extinct.
2007-03-22 08:33:08 · answer #1 · answered by Kharm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the most likely case is that eventually all species will become extinct. The planet earth will be consumed by the sun about 4 - 5 billion years from now and it's unlikely any specie will survive that.
2007-03-22 15:49:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the causes of the extinction.
If a large enough meteor were to strike the Earth, billions would die as a result of the impact, which would also cause a massive amount of dirt and smoke to be thrown into the atmosphere.
This would prevent adequate sunlight from reaching the surface of the planet. Plants and simple life-forms would die, and this would leak to starvation of millions of creatures higher in the food-chain, on earth as well as in the oceans.
While humans have the capacity to grow food without direct sunlight, there would not be enough to feed even a fraction of the world's population. Hothouses would become the new oil-fields.
Humans might hang around for a while after that, but if the atmosphere didn't clear, the prospects of survival would be grim.
Of course, one day in the future, about 5 billion years from now, our Sun is going to die. When that starts happening it will swell in size and become what's called a Red Giant. It may get so big that it engulfs our planet, but even if it doesn't, the intense heat would basically "cook" the surface of the earth.
2007-03-22 15:48:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the term species refer to biological living things, and anything that lives can die, all species has potential to become extinct. Even the most resilient, numerous and fast reproducing will have a weakness.
2007-03-22 15:33:49 · answer #4 · answered by Shades of Green 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no species that remains in existence indefinitely. Some become extinct. Others evolve into new species.
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2007-03-22 15:42:08 · answer #5 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Eventually when the sun explodes, they're all extinct. If you mean so far, tiny water organisms have probably been around basically since life began and will be for a long time.
2007-03-22 15:40:37 · answer #6 · answered by ajj085 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe.
If, when the world is destroyed, something has left it and survives elsewhere, then that species will not go extinct.
2007-03-22 15:27:36 · answer #7 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This world as we know it will become extinct. It will be replaced by the Kingdom of God. Creation will be restored to perfection.
2007-03-22 15:32:38 · answer #8 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That would be all current species.
That is temporary, all will become extinct eventually
2007-03-22 15:29:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It is possible to save a species if we want to. Look at the Blue Whale.
2007-03-22 15:28:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋