Looming mass extinction could be biggest 'since the dinosaurs,' says WWF

Deutsche Welle ^ | 12.29.2021 | rs/msh (epd, AFP)

[Noumenon]

Deprecate the writings of Proust, will you? We’ll see about that.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The Germans are experts at “extinction”. Otherwise I would have family still living in Poland (Lemberg) Lvov.

[Clutch Martin]

We are one solar flare away from ending technologies that we’ve become accustomed to.

One seismic event that would crush economies.

One asteriod, or meteor strike away from catastrophic demise.

“Survival is the exception, extinction is the rule” - Carl Sagan

[Olog-hai]

Only if God willed that. So far, the only thing meeting the description of a similar cataclysm to those is “Apsinthe” (Rev. 8:10-11).

[Clutch Martin]

Gen 1:2 “was void”
Strong’s translates to “became void”

Was: H1961
Void: H922

What else is H922 used?

Jeremiah 4:23
I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

There’s plenty of geological. And scriptually it is written, but not in the detail of the phyical evidence.

“And the rocks cry out”

[IrishBrigade]

‘If natural selection explained how we got here, we’d have tons of new species automatically springing up into existence’

new species do not ‘automatically spring up’, but you already knew that, didn’t you...?

[IrishBrigade]

‘Their father is the father of lies.’

who fathered this father of lies...?

[dfwgator]

Lemme tell ya bout endangered species, awright? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control Nature. It’s arrogant meddling. It’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that?

Interfering with Nature. Over 90 percent, over, way over 90 percent, of the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone. Wooosh! They’re extinct. We didn’t kill them all. They just disappeared. That’s what nature does. They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day—and I mean regardless of our behavior. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today will be gone tomorrow. Let them go gracefully. Leave Nature alone.

Haven’t we done enough? We’re so self-important, so self-important. Everybody’s gonna save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. And the greatest arrogance of all, save the planet. What? Are these people kidding me? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned to care for one another—we’re gonna save the planet?

[Tell It Right]

The archaeological record has new species springing up in bursts. Of course, I don't say "automatically" because I believe God made them come to be as part of creation "days" 4, 5, and 6. (With the Hebrew word "yom" for day have as one of its literal definitions being an era of unspecified length).

Perhaps the most notable burst of new species is the Cambrian Explosion. About 500 million years ago, there was a brief 10 million year period in which 50% to 80% of all known phyla ever known to exist all of a sudden appeared in the archeological record. 10 million years seems like a long time. But if natural selection demands a gradual speciation to have occurred across billions of years, then half of it occurring within 10 million years makes the math of natural selection off by a factor of 1,000. Even Darwin himself wrote about it in his The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. However, he believed that future archeological discoveries would fill in the gaps and prove his theory correct. The opposite happened. It turns out that we learned after Darwin that the amount of speciation that occurred in the Cambrian Explosion (with less speciation occurring at other times) was even more profound than was known in Darwin's time.

The Bible was right. The anti-Christians are wrong.

[no-to-illegals]

Since time began to the present time on this planet 99.9999999% of prior species are extinct

[bankwalker]

What does the grand wizard say about This?

[GingisK]

We’d also have four arms. Just ask any mother.

[Olog-hai]

The root of “yom” refers to a period where it’s hot, i.e. the day. Certainly can be our 24-hour day.

[Tell It Right]

It can be a 12 hour period (i guess that means daytime), 24 hour period, or era of unspecified length. Either of those 3 are literal definitions for yom.