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Originally Posted by Jeb Thurmond
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...
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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?