Extinct them before they extinct us, then see if they are tasty.

Well I suppose it's a good thing God can just magic more into existence whenever He feels like it then.

/Evolution is the tinfoil hat atheists wear to keep God out of their brainwaves.

make me some tea: Talon: Well I suppose it's a good thing God can just magic more into existence whenever He feels like it then.

/Evolution is the tinfoil hat atheists wear to keep God out of their brainwaves.

Oh certainly, but only when He decides to do it, and we don't know what God's timetable is.

Not sure if serious?

The English Major: Talon: make me some tea: Talon: Well I suppose it's a good thing God can just magic more into existence whenever He feels like it then.

/Evolution is the tinfoil hat atheists wear to keep God out of their brainwaves.

Oh certainly, but only when He decides to do it, and we don't know what God's timetable is.

Not sure if serious?

GodEvolution, I hope this goes green.

FTFY

I don't know what kind of SUV the Extinction is, but I want one.

make me some tea: Heh, I still remember that crap from Sunday school. Way to dodge my damn questions about why God never answers people's prayers, Miss Sunday School Teacher.

Prayer, the best illusion in the world.

festus: crypticsatellite: I was not aware that "extinct" was a verb.

Isn't it weird that the word "verb" is a noun?

I think you have just disproved the theory of the English language.

BigSnatch: crypticsatellite: I was not aware that "extinct" was a verb.


You can verb any word you want.

And you get extra super-cool points for doing it, too!

make me some tea: jmaster306: festus: crypticsatellite: I was not aware that "extinct" was a verb.

Isn't it weird that the word "verb" is a noun?

I think you have just disproved the theory of the English language.

It IS only a theory, after all.

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ZAZ: unyon

I said I can believe the number of species is declining now. With "now" meaning something like past century, or past few centuries. Let's even say for the sake of argument that we're in a great extinction, meaning the number is dropping fast. It's a long way from there to saying we had 60 million years of uninterrupted increase in number of species until man came along.

Not really. It's about 39 characters, including spaces and punctuation marks.

crypticsatellite: I was not aware that "extinct" was a verb.

I've been verbing with it for a long time.

jalora: I don't know what kind of SUV the Extinction is, but I want one.

I think it's a GM, but they stopped producing it around the same time as the H2.

Depending on how you look at it, we're just a force of natural selection. There's certainly nothing new about a species extincting others, and we're of course a product of evolution, so our actions play into natural selection (we're certainly not supernatural), the difference is we can understand our actions and avoid causing (or intentionally cause, whatever) the extinction of a species.

Oooh, so Mother Nature now needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese.

"For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve"

Meaning humans killed lots of shiat BEFORE the dinosaur extinction?

A ex-stinking event happens too often.



/Divorce

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We're much too fat and livin' too long

Like I told my liberal friend who believes that human's are the problem with everything, those polar bears whose ice flows are melting better evolve web paws quicker.

Barakku: Depending on how you look at it, we're just a force of natural selection. There's certainly nothing new about a species extincting others, and we're of course a product of evolution, so our actions play into natural selection (we're certainly not supernatural), the difference is we can understand our actions and avoid causing (or intentionally cause, whatever) the extinction of a species.

This has been my thinking since high school. If humans are simply an evolutionary output, then whatever we do is simply natures way of dealing with less resilient creation. Think of us as the equivalent of the model T-800 for the natural world.

I'm normally front-row center when it comes to protecting endangered species and curtailing human activity (and even *gasp* profits!) in order to make absolutely sure we don't need that last hundred species we obliterated, but this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

It's not like species are interchangeable. Just because new species are evolving doesn't mean they'll perfectly replace the ones we've destroyed.

ZAZ: For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world's experts on biodiversity has warned.

I don't believe this. I can believe the number of species is declining now. I can't believe it was continually increasing for 60 million years until Man. The world has probably been in near equilibrium much of that time with the number of species fluctuating up and down.

60 MYA was the last Mass Extinction Event. There were four other before then, and we are apparently in the middle of a 6th one. I'm not sure exactly how biodiversity looks like between these events - there's probably some fluctuation going on, but every few hundred million years, there's one big massive crash. The bigger animals and apex predators (such as humans) tend to do the worst.

Good thing we are learning the language of biology. Soon we will build species at will. First they will be simple experiments, stringing together the fewest bits of genetic code it takes to produce a living thing. Like a child learning the alphabet, sounding it out as they go along.

Then, as we learn, we'll begin to design creatures with specific purposes, medical and industrial. Soon after, as our understanding of the building blocks and instruction codes of life expand, we'll move into creating full blown mammal-scale creatures. We will be able to re-create an analogue of whatever furry farknut that went extinct last year.

Soon after that, we'll be in full-scale Jumba (from Lilo & Stitch) mode. With private scientists building extreme lifeforms just to see how far they can tweak the genetic code. Just for the hell of it. Like the X-Games of creating life. Of course, by then, the singularity will have happened and it will likely be a post-human machine intelligence running things.

Extinct species? Not so worried. In fact, bring on 'The Gourmet Club'.

It's all part of the Monroe Doctrine, I think.

Obvious tag works here, too.

Weaver95: SchlingFocker: Until the only species left are the ones that can evolve quickly enough to keep pace with us....

mmm...tyrannids....

WAAGH

it's got electrolytes!

/brawndo