[editor-surveyor]

"Considering that all trilobites are extinct, it would be rather interesting to find someone who expects their diversity to increase without limit."

You continue to embarass yourself with your failure to grasp the significance of the obvious

"Within recorded history, the diversity of large animals has decreased. What makes you think diversity should increase continuously?"

The foundational thesis of darwinism demands it.

[GodGunsGuts]

==js1138 writes: “Within recorded history, the diversity of large animals has decreased.”

Darwin writes:

There is some reason to believe that organisms, considered high in the scale of nature, change more quickly than those that are low...

—Charles Darwin

[js1138]

The foundational thesis of darwinism demands it.

Right. Your ignorance of biology is on a par with your ignorance of astronomy.