by Satanus 16 Replies latest jw friends
Wt goes on about how perfectly the universe runs, even better than watch. They quote the scripture about god calling each star by name, and none ever being missing. Do stars blowing up sigal a failure for the master worker? When an asteroid slammed into the earth and caused mass extinctions, was that another failure? Or, was god simply getting bored w the dinosaurs after milleniums of watching the dumb things plod all over the vegetation that he had so lovingly created?
S
Hubby is venturing a guess...
"Maybe the extinction of the dinosaurs was a part of the divine plan, and in a way we do not understand fully was preparing the earth for humankind. I don't think I'd like to share the planet with a tyrannosaur, would you?"
I thought that sounded reasonable, what do you think?
Jean
Trexes may not have been all that dangerous. I mean, we share this globe w plenty of dangerous animals, only, they aren't as big. As for the other large dinos, think elephants.
was preparing the earth for humankind.
Like god couldn't do it himself, or maybe he screwed up by creating too much foliage, or the ground was too soft, and he used dinos to pack it down. Sorry, that one doesn't work.
S
....Not if it takes out Patterson
If it was not his plan, then, yes it was a colossal mistake. But what if the asteroid *was* his way of taking care of it himself; that he never intended for the dino's to remain forever?
Add a few more things, barney. We drive cars, play on computers, paint our caves w wierd colors. However, a check into the human genetic code reveals that we have many sequences that are found in primates, many other animals, bacteria, and even some plants. That settles it for me. We are of the earth.
Jeanbean, i'll catch ya later.
S
I don't think the Wt would even tackle that question honestly. It could get too "Earthy" for them.
To answer the question first posed, I think it is just the nature of nature to be creative and destructive at the same time. A star blows up. That star is no-more. But from its death are born new elements that could not be created in the main sequence of a star's life cycle--I think its any element above Iron on the elemental chart. Up to that point, fusion gives off energy; beyond that point, more energy is required than is given off, and that is why the star implodes. At least that's the theory anyway.
interesting thread, as for the star, it has a life cycle same as humans, animals etc. it eventually wears out, same as us. as for the asteriod and the dinosaurs, alot of that is speculation. none of us were around millions of years ago to see what really happened. so i say why ponder it? i would ask was the fail test of adam and eve a sign of divine failure? or the rebellious angels who forsoke their place in heaven with God? that one has made me wonder, if angels, God's heavenly spirit creatures who have had the priveledge of living in heaven etc, can screw up and rebel, what chance do we have?
Barney
I was an argonian tree slug.
Cool, so was i. No wait, i think i was the tree. Anyway, you might even have some slug dna. I also tend to believe that reincarnation happens. Imo, it is us as spirits that have come from elsewhere, alien, so to speak. But the body is of earth.
Jeanbean
God used the asteroid? I would have to say, prove it. I know that you can't. It's only supposition, the same as all the other 'god used' this event, or 'god used' that person statements. No proof that god used any of the floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, supernovas in the universe's history, or any of the people like martin luther, constantine, charles russel, jesus, alexander the great, apostle paul, apostle john, etc, etc, ad nausium.
S
Satan,
Interesting.
BM,
Nothing is true. All is permissible.
I think you might be right.
