18 Jul 14
Originally posted by sonhouseOnly if an Eternal God becomes bored with His creation, would mankind become extinct.
Mankind WILL go extinct someday, where does god go after that?
In the concept of a creator, that has been for eternity. Who has allowed the world to evolve, for billions of years. That cherishes mankind above all else. He won't let us become extinct.
18 Jul 14
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Originally posted by sonhouse"See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Mankind WILL go extinct someday, where does god go after that?
(Isaiah 65:17 NIV)
For, "ALL FLESH IS LIKE GRASS, AND ALL ITS GLORY LIKE THE FLOWER OF GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERS, AND THE FLOWER FALLS OFF, BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER."
(1 Peter 1:24-25 NIV)
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
(Isaiah 40:8 NASB)
18 Jul 14
Originally posted by PudgenikGenetic analysis proves the human race almost DID go extinct about 180 thousand years ago, our genetic diversity is small compared to other great apes and mammals.
Only if an Eternal God becomes bored with His creation, would mankind become extinct.
In the concept of a creator, that has been for eternity. Who has allowed the world to evolve, for billions of years. That cherishes mankind above all else. He won't let us become extinct.
That analysis suggests the human race was down to maybe 20 people at one point in time. The older race, Neanderthals, DID go extinct and there is no reason to think we can't follow in their footsteps to extinction ourselves.
Space travel MIGHT save us if we get off our scientifically lazy butts and actually make a space bearing civilization, including interstellar travel as far away from Earth as possible.
Stay on Earth, extinction is inevitable.
Originally posted by sonhouseIn the concepts you propose, and as we see how distructive mankind can be to itself. What makes you think getting off the planet will make any difference?
Genetic analysis proves the human race almost DID go extinct about 180 thousand years ago, our genetic diversity is small compared to other great apes and mammals.
That analysis suggests the human race was down to maybe 20 people at one point in time. The older race, Neanderthals, DID go extinct and there is no reason to think we can't follow in their foo ...[text shortened]... rstellar travel as far away from Earth as possible.
Stay on Earth, extinction is inevitable.
18 Jul 14
Originally posted by PudgenikScreen out the stupid people with an IQ test. Make up some bull$h!t statement that everyone on board the space ship will have to help fly the thing from time to time and so only the clever will be allowed on. Then fly away, safe in the knowledge that the only damage the fundies can do with their guns, knives, stakes, torches, nukes, etc... is to themselves ... on EARTH. 🙂
In the concepts you propose, and as we see how distructive mankind can be to itself. What makes you think getting off the planet will make any difference?
18 Jul 14
Originally posted by AgergAlternately, they may find the only practical way to do interstellar travel is to have frozen embryo's at say LN2 temps and the journey may take 10,000 years but science enables the ship and everything in it to have a lifespan ten times that if needed, so at journey's end, the embryo's are warmed up and put in an incubator and babies are 'born', raised at first by robots with all the good stuff to learn from old Earth but none of the bad and then 20 years later, they have a civilization on the new planet and people start having kids the normal way and now they don't have all that neurotic baggage of the old civilization and the robots instilled tolerance, compassion, and so forth in the first generation of kids while building the infrastructure for adults who would live in whatever they designed when the kids grow up.
Screen out the stupid people with an IQ test. Make up some bull$h!t statement that everyone on board the space ship will have to help fly the thing from time to time and so only the clever will be allowed on. Then fly away, safe in the knowledge that the only damage the fundies can do with their guns, knives, stakes, torches, nukes, etc... is to themselves ... on EARTH. 🙂
18 Jul 14
Originally posted by sonhouseIt was down to 8 people just after the flood of Noah's day.
Genetic analysis proves the human race almost DID go extinct about 180 thousand years ago, our genetic diversity is small compared to other great apes and mammals.
That analysis suggests the human race was down to maybe 20 people at one point in time. The older race, Neanderthals, DID go extinct and there is no reason to think we can't follow in their foo ...[text shortened]... rstellar travel as far away from Earth as possible.
Stay on Earth, extinction is inevitable.