We are all parasites living on the same host?

Question

This thought once came into my head while thinkning of all kinds of living things and how they feed..which is usually off other things. I even heard fleas can have fleas, and the fleas of fleas get fleas...plants can get parasites, people get parasites, we over abuse our host (pollution ect, we can kill the earth in a sense). Has anyone ever heard this our Earth is but one planet a host) and we are all just parasites living off this same host. I dont believe this but Im surprised I never heard such a staement from an atheist describing how we are not neccesarily "higher" than animals because we are more adept.

Answer 1

Yes, its a theory!

You must watch this short video titled "Earth has a bad case of the humans"
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOl8xAkf_70

Answer 2

I like that; "The earth has a bad case of humans." Anyway, you're right. I too saw the photos of the tiny aphids clinging to the back of a flea. Sometimes there's a friendly relationship between the parasite and the host. We have bacteria in our stomachs and intestines that has to be put there by unsanitary and unconscious personal habits - like putting a pen or car keys in your mouth when your hands are full. Many of these bacteria (not all) are beneficial and with out them, we couldn't live very long at all. Are we parasites on the earth - earth is a host? Well, yes, I guess so. How 'bout this? "We are all just maggots on the road-kill of decay". I read that here once.

Answer 3

i would not say that's a parasite, because of the fact a parasite is opportunistic and is not any longer unavoidably an identical species because of the fact the host. A fetus is a organic and frequent component to reproduction. genuine that's carefully based of the mother yet can not indiscriminately go with a bunch and it gets a minimum of 50% of the host's DNA, till you have a situation the place you have a surrogate gestating offspring that become presented outdoors of the common sperm meets the mother's egg in utero. . that's somewhat the way an organism reproduces itself. that isn't a scientific answer, yet purely an exceedingly subjective attitude.

Answer 4

I don't think we are all parasites living on the same host. There is a very complicated connection between life forms on earth and I don't think any of the so-called "higher" forms of life could survive without the so-called "lower" forms.

Thinking of mammals, they can't survive without various kinds of digestive bacteria. The digestive bacteria can't survive without the host. Some mammals eat plants. But, the plants use the plant-eating mammals to spread their seeds and their waste as fertilizer. The entire mass of life on earth is more a symbiotic relationship than parasitic, right down to the dung beetles that dispose of fecal waste.

(I'm an atheist, by the way, but I don't exactly understand what you are surprised you never heard any of us stating.)

Answer 5

lol, i'm actually doing a speech on this