It takes some kind of faith to live, period. How about this one. All the other living things on the Earth have specific tasks or functions (if you will). Where do humans fit into this? I can see no connection. We are only at the top of the food chain but what purpose do we actually serve? I mean scientifically...we do not fit, do we? I only see that we serve as consumers but no real benefit to our environment.
2007-11-24 21:42:19 · 8 answers · asked by Jennifer R 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let me be a little more specific...since everyone seems to be getting their panties in a wad. And smart guy at the bottom...I have been to college. I mean in the sense that humans (for ecological purposes) seem to be like using a hand grenade to kill a gopher.
2007-11-24 22:05:23 · update #1
My take on it is that the sole natural purpose of every species is to reproduce. The interlocking systems you refer to are a product of that need to reproduce. A species will evolve to fill a niche that best increases it's chances of producing young in the environment it is in. We are different because we evolved the ability to think which dramatically increased our ability to change our environment to suit our needs instead of changing to suit the environment. Before we evolved the ability to think/reason we were no different to any other species, doing our best to survive in our environment. I never went to college, this is just what I make of it. It makes sense to me. :)
2007-11-24 22:21:48 · answer #1 · answered by russj 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither a species nor an individual animal thinks or cares about whether or not it's benefiting its environment. Humans are the only ones that can produce that kind of higher-order thinking. A population cares about making more of its own, that's it, end of story. If it didn't, it would be overrun by something that puts reproduction first.
Humans were originally omnivorous scavengers with good eyesight and excellent cognition. It's somewhat likely that we're essentially a savannah ape that figured out how to get the protein out of bone marrow consistently (large predators eat around the bones, other scavengers pick at the bones and gristle).
I'm afraid you're seeing design in nature where there is really only order. Large cats, constrictors, piranhas, hell, even communicable diseases would beg to differ on the 'humans occupy the top of the food chain' bit. Besides, the corpses of any animal are good fertilizer.
2007-11-24 21:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The creatures at the top of the food chain ALWAYS produce what the creatures at the BOTTOM need - carbon dioxide for plants, and waste and carcasses for plants and micro-organisms. Everything gets recycled naturally, including our bodies, just as it does with any other predator species. We have the same place as any other omnivore in this respect. This holds true whether the top of a particular food chain (and there are many, not just one) is a human, a lion, or a mouse.
2007-11-24 21:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
each element in nature has a chemical aroma that it releases into the air...even rocks. those chemical compounds even as picked up by receptors contained in the nostril can set off the mind to have reminiscence flashes which could take you decrease back to a second on your existence once you had that particular emotion. once you're on the coastline and also you're smelling the salt contained in the sea you're taken decrease back to that emotion which on your case changed into consistently solid ones. an similar may be stated that if something undesirable occurred to you on the coastline then whenever you scent the salt then you will be overstruck with pressure. lots of those who have had tramatic reports have had their minds repress those concepts. oftentimes they ask your self why particular smells lead them to experience uneasy without understanding that are experiencing this result. The eyes try this by inventive and prescient and the ears with sounds. Spirituality is traditionally touching on to nature than faith itself. Witchcraft/paganism is referred to as spirituality better than a faith. Nature is proper and those adventure's you're having is a present that we are waiting to adventure.
2016-10-25 01:07:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an interesting observation. You're right...we don't really fit in with the rest of things. Really, there's not much of a way we could have survived in "survival of the fittest," because it doesn't seem like we are in a lot of ways.
We have an incredible mind, though. Perhaps our place is truly at the head...to subdue and to rule over the earth as the Bible suggests, taking care of it.
2007-11-24 21:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by Corvo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is a really good question.
Most animals have some kind of function, but what do we do? We do things that refrain those animals from doing those functions. So really, we just mess up the whole science-nature balance.
2007-11-24 21:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What you are really trying to get at is ecology and/or population dynamics.
Why not finish grade school, go to college, then study ecology at university?
That would answer your question..
2007-11-24 21:51:43 · answer #7 · answered by Sly Phi AM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is there ever an explination for viruses
2007-11-24 21:49:57 · answer #8 · answered by barcode soul (almost suspended) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋