do you think man is the climax of creation?

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Original opinions would be great, thanks

Answer 1

Impossible!!! What would you say if we were comparing life form (humans) to sexual gametes. Where would be the climax of creations if those sexual gametes were fertilizing each others, to make a whole new complexe lifeform, I guess it will be at the fertilizing stage... Well same on earth, creations help life to conquer new areas and so far we only know one place in our universe where life exist. So we may think that life on Earth don`t only seek to remain enclosed on the Earth and as every living being, seek to multiply, and to multiply life needs sexual gametes strong enough to plant life on another planet! We may be those sexual gametes as we look like the only specie on this planet to be capable of spreading life in a hostile environment, but does that means we ARE the climax... I don`t think so! I think the whole planet as a huge symbiotic system is the climax of creation, and we are only its ''organ'' capable to spread life...

Answer 2

No, man is not the climax of creation.

Life is a process - always changing. Those species that succeed in their habitats (circumstances allowing) will survive. Those that do not, won't. This, of course, is called Evolution.

Man evolved to become Human approx 3 million years ago in the form of Homo Habilis and through Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens to become the Homo Sapiens Sapiens that we are today.

Our Culture encourages us to believe that we are the climax of creation, but does so because we have separated ourselves from the rest of the Community of Life. We believe we are superior, and this gives us the right to use the world's resources for our own ends, no matter how unsustainable.

Fine for now, until we stop to appreciate that Life is a process and never stands still. We may not be evolving at the moment, but once the world's resources are used up, as used by Humans, we are likely to see a crash. Evolution will again kick in as those (not necessarily including Humans) most suited to surviving in these new circumstances will survive, and those that are not suited, will not survive.

Only through awareness and understanding can we hope to find an evolutionary stable way forward for the species. If we cannot manage that, it will be other species that carry the torch forward as 'the climax of creation'.

Life is a process - always changing. There is no climax.

Answer 3

I was just now watching a program on TV that outlined the history of earth. If all of earth's history could be compressed in to an hour on a clock, dinosaurs appeared around 10:55 pm on that clock. Humans showed up about 30 seconds ago. The number of animal species now extinct greatly out number the ones currently living. We may very well be the climax of creation. But, like everything else here - now and in the past - we're all just carbon-base-life forms.

Answer 4

I think people have been people for at least hundreds of thousands of years. We have changed physically but I believe that there may be something beyond that. It is not scientific because it is based on a personal experience and I do believe a soul is possible. A soul could be something special to humans but I don't know and actually doubt it. Human beings are not likely the climax of creation because evolution continues. If there is a soul it is definitely influenced by the physical nature of our brains while we are on Earth.

I fell rather like a monkey trying to discuss Einstein's theory of relativity. I have no knowledge of our ultimate reality beyond science or even if it exists at all. I have reason to think it exists but am as ignorant about it as humans have probably always been.

Answer 5

Nope. We're still evolving, although we've eased the evolutionary pressures on ourselves. A lot of them are still there, though, despite the best efforts of modern medical care. If we were the climax of creation, then whoever designed this is still tinkering.

That idea is also ignoring every other creature on this planet. They weren't all formed to get to us. They each continue to live and evolve with or without us. We also weren't created in any special way. We evolved from the original single-celled organisms just like everyone else.

Answer 6

We Earth people should think that for ourselves.We are at the pinnacle of the Omnipotents creation.We have the ability to create and speak.We know how to reason and to solve complex problems.We harness the power of radiowave and soundwave ,gamma rays and X-rays.The fusion and fission of the atoms.We got the technology that should bring us to the next millenium.--Except for something??---... We should think about the universe, the galaxy.There beyond the unexplored region of the infinite universe lies the colonies of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.Some of them probably already here on our planet disguised as a well knowledge people.Who has the patent to create a mass destruction of the humankind. Have you ever wonder how we get this technology.How these things evolve for the past hundred years.The acceleration seems too fast.The next fifty years or so, a fully independent functional cyborg might be roaming around giving you a speeding ticket. I Think About It!?&%@ Where is god?

Answer 7

As an animal humans are meat for carnivores. An evolutionary dead end. As a LONG TERM THINKING animal then mankind is way up in the ratings. Certainly our climax. Not the creative climax, we probably won't be here when something better comes along.

Answer 8

I don't think it can be thought of in terms of reaching an appex. It is simply a process that is continous. I suppose if the earth is about to be destroyed and, therefore, all life on earth is about to end and will never have a chance to evolve any more...then that point would be the climax. ;) Otherwise, how can you have a climax to a continous process?

Answer 9

Perhaps he is this time around but I would not exclude the possibility that there have been many before. Eternity to too vast to say that there hasn't been some kind of climax of creation before.

Answer 10

Man is not, nor can he ever be the climax of creation.
This is because man is the first and only organism to 'remove' himself from nature, the ecosystem, and evolution itself.