[Professor Majestic]

Re: Get rid of nature before it kills us!

Off Topic chatter has been moved HERE. Can we please at least TRY to get this debate back on topic? Specifically, the topic of how technology will save us.

Techno-utopians have always been right. This blog shows you the techno-utopian's track record of predicting, with almost perfect timing, the arrival of technologies that mean there will never be famine or disease:

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/

In 2020 when the groundwater is used up and everything west of the Mississippi reverts to desert, our one-pill meals will be manufactured by genetically modified superchimps in orbiting factories. The pill meals will be distributed to our moon-colonies and asteroid mines by radio-controlled antigravity rockets. As for us backward Earthlings will get our pill meals delivered to our mile-high skyscraper homes via flying car and jetpack delivery. Our robot maids, arriving via moving sidewalk, will set the table, put some parsley on the pills, light the candles, and even spank the kids if they swallow their dessert-pill first.

Jeb, you yorself said that science was evil and not to be trusted in "A Guide to The Evolutionist Conspiracy", that genetic engineering was evil and satanic(chimps), and that going to the moon (much less the asteroid belt) was impossible. This is the most blatant crossing of one's own logic I have ever seen!

[Meek and Humble]

Re: Get rid of nature before it kills us!

What, how did he cross his logic?

[Mapper]

Re: Get rid of nature before it kills us!

so what your saying is,we need to kill off the enviroment,make billions of animal and plant life go extinct just to make space? you do know that if a mass geneocide like this (yes it is geneocide, check a good dictionary *bible does not count*) was attempted, they would be stopped by the intellegent people of the world? Why do you think that the technology we are using know to save the planet is being implemented in that way?

[Meek and Humble]

Re: Get rid of nature before it kills us!

So you want the human race to go extinct just to save some bushes, bugs, and wild animals that would kill you if they got the chance. Not very good thinking at all.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Get rid of nature before it kills us!

This article has the right attitude towards nature: either find a way to make yourself useful, or go extinct!

...the day will come when the wild creatures of the earth will have to pay their way or become as extinct as many forms of animal life have in the dim distances of the past.

Unless an animal can contribute something definite to human life - food to be eaten, clothes to be worn, labor to lighten the burden of man - then his doom is sealed and the last of his tribe will one day pass out of the picture...

Indeed. God made the animals to be helps meet for us, not the other way around:

Gen. 2:18-20: And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

One may wonder why God did not strike them all dead on the spot, given that they had failed the purpose for which the Almighty had intelligently designed them, but who are we to question His mercy?

[WWJDnow]

Re: Get rid of nature before it kills us!

grow food in "vertical farms"?

Interesting idea. Do you think it would be permitted to raise different crops on different levels, or would that violate the injunction of Leviticus 19:19, thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed?