re: #36 jamesfirecat

“But are we going to end or alter the path that Earth’s evolution is going to take? I don’t think so,”

HOLD IT!

OBJECTION!

The above presupposes that the Earth has to “evolve” to a form that is in favor of the survival of human civilization as we know it! Do you have any evidence?

TAKE THAT!

Yeah, it’s rather the height of hubris to believe that the Earth gives a fig about us. If tomorrow, every last human on the planet dropped dead, the Earth wouldn’t just stop spinning and life cease to be. No more than it stops for a single man’s death, the death of humanity wouldn’t be more than a blip in the course of galactic history. In another 6,000 years, you’d be hard-pressed to prove that humanity had ever existed at all, every trace of the modern world buried like every other dead civilization.