[mlc9852]

And just how do you know that?

[stremba]

Because I assume that God isn't dead set on deceiving us. We have observed the bones and other fossilized remains of many more creatures that no longer exist than we have observed creatures that do currently exist. Of course, ANY idea involving an omnipotent God is not falsifiable (and hence unscientific) since God certainly could have made it look like there really were a whole lot of extinct species when there actually aren't. However, are you really denying that species go extinct?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Well that certainly accounts for the fact that there are far more extinct species than there are living ones.

And just how do you know that?

I didn't see that you got an answer to your question. The answer is the fossil record. And more new extinct fossil species are found weekly. The last estimate I saw is 95% of all known species are extinct.

So that's why stremba said that.