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To: kosta50
We could just as easily cause it ourselves with a nuclear war.

I'd put that in the Armageddon category. We were talking about massive over-population and the resulting "adjustment." This usually means a massive die-off.

Species don't matter.

They matter to themselves of course, and the mix and numbers of species matter to the perpetuation of life.

Life is consequential to conditions.

As far as we know from our experience: Where matter is favorable, life emerges, where life is favorable, intelligence emerges, where intelligence is favorable, consciousness emerges.

Yes in consequence to conditions, but everything interrelated to the whole, and, in our experience, that includes living things.

It's not difficult to imagine nothing at all exists, or even a soup of particles and forces becoming nothing more.

1,730 posted on 07/23/2010 11:00:59 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
Why do animals show some intelligence and plants don't? Do you think all animals are conscious? Or do they just blindly react?

Anyway, all this is inconsequential on a cosmic scale. In our little village things matter. But just because someone has, say, a domestic issue doesn't mean the rest of the creation cares or depends on it.

1,745 posted on 07/23/2010 11:56:44 AM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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