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What was God Thinking? Earth May Be Home to 1 trillion Species!

ecco

Veteran Member
God appears to have really gone off the deep end here,
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Or doesn't this seem at all reasonable?
Our universe was created by a teen-age god.


When gods are very young, they create a universe. After a while (god time is not translatable) the young god creates another universe. And then another, and another and another. That's really all that gods do. After several years (god time is not translatable) of this, the (still young) god realizes he can mash together earlier universes to create a universe rather than start from scratch. By the time (not translatable - remember) our teen-aged god created our universe, he had trillions (quantities aren't readily translatable either) of universes to mash together. Hence millions of different cockroach types.
 

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
God appears to have really gone off the deep end here, whereas evolution, lacking any goal, seems a FAR more reasonable explanation. Nature can't help itself, but god can.

Or doesn't this seem at all reasonable?.

To be honest, it seems shallow and anthropocentric.
 

whirlingmerc

Well-Known Member
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(August 24, 2011)
"Our planet could be harboring over one trillion species, 99.999% of which still wait to be discovered according to two American scientists.

The estimates in the study authored by Jay T. Lennon and Kenneth J. Locey of Indiana University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on May 2, are based on the compilation of government, academic and citizen science sources covering over 5.6 million species from microscopic and non-microscopic species from some 35,000 locations across all the oceans and continents except Antarctica. The calculations were made in accord with scaling laws developed at the Indiana University. The researchers combined the results of over 20,000 sampling efforts on bacteria, archaea and fungi and nearly 15.000 on trees, birds and mammals.

As might be expected, the so far under-sampled microrganisms make up the great majority of the estimated 1 trillion species.


Although it is known that a single gram of soil may contain up to a billion microorganisms, these have been largely ignored in sampling efforts, the authors point out. Noting that even the global multidisciplinary effort, the Earth Microbiome Project could identify less than 10 million species, they estimate that 100,000 times that have yet to be discovered."
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Even if this number sounds extremely high, and to me it does, more conservative estimates are still pretty high. From a report of the same year (2011 Aug; 9)





11 MILLION species on the planet!

If indeed all 11 million were created by god as is, as creationists would have us believe, what was god thinking to have made that many? Do we really need 33,600 species of fish? And why 72,500 species of algae? Moreover, wouldn't a handful of beetle species have been adequate rather than plopping 1.5 million of them down on planet Earth?

God appears to have really gone off the deep end here, whereas evolution, lacking any goal, seems a FAR more reasonable explanation. Nature can't help itself, but god can.

Or doesn't this seem at all reasonable?

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This gives us a tiny glimpse into the awesome creativity and vastness of God

But only one thing in creation made in God's image to reflect and reflect upon him more than other things. That is mankind, even when it's fallen broken and tarnished.
 

Skwim

Veteran Member
This gives us a tiny glimpse into the awesome creativity and vastness of God
Still doesn't answer the question of "Why?" Why such incredible diversity? Why bother creating 1.5 million species of beetles?

Of course I don't expect a direct answer from anyone, but only ask so as to point up how preposterous it is for god to have made 11 million species as is.

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WhyIsThatSo

Well-Known Member
Still doesn't answer the question of "Why?" Why such incredible diversity? Why bother creating 1.5 million species of beetles?

Of course I don't expect an answer from anyone, but only ask so as to point up how preposterous it is for god to have made 11 million species as is.

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Who says there are 11 million species of anything ?.....a "scientist" ?
well that settles it then..
 
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