Where's The Cambrian Explosion In This Graphic?

[Black Dog]

Why is the rate a concern? We are not going to kill all animals. What we do not kill will continue to evolve. What is wrong with that?

We could kill all animals. That would be bad.

 

[AV1611VET]

We could kill all animals.

Which one(s) would you start with?

Lupines? Canines? Felines? Homos?

Which one wore the shirt that said NATURAL SELECTION?

Klebold or Harris?

 

[Subduction Zone]

So much for "shown to be wrong."

At least you said, 'almost always.'

My example must have fallen into that perimeter, eh?

It was a nonsensical statement that need no refutation. You really have to try a lot harder than that.

 

[Herman Hedning]

Well, not really. Now that we've found the Cambrian explosion on the graph, questions arise concerning the alleged life forms previous to the Cambrian explosion evolving into life forms after the Cambrian explosion.....per the graph.

OK. Questions such as?

 

[justlookinla]

OK. Questions such as?

What life forms are represented immediately preceding the Cambrian from which the Cambrian life forms evolved. Per the fossil record.

 

[juvenissun]

We could kill all animals. That would be bad.

You wish. We are not that powerful. It would even be hard to kill off ONE species.

 

[Shemjaza]

You wish. We are not that powerful. It would even be hard to kill off ONE species.

Seen any dodos? Tasmanian wolves? Passenger pigeons? Western black rhinoceros?

 

[juvenissun]

Seen any dodos? Tasmanian wolves? Passenger pigeons? Western black rhinoceros?

How about mosquito? flies? cockroaches? mice?

 

[Goonie]

How about mosquito? flies? cockroaches? mice?

The passenger pigeon, once the most abundant bird in Northampton America, indeed the world, now extinct as humanity hunted it, and destroyed its habitat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
So hard to kill off a species? In as little as 400 odd years humanity wiped the most abundant bird on earth from the planet.

 

[Shemjaza]

How about mosquito? flies? cockroaches? mice?

Oh!

When you said "It would even be hard to kill off ONE species." you meant specifically target a single particular species without widespread unpleasant consequences? You need to be clearer.

No one was asserting that we have that kind of precision, merely that human actions can lead to species extinction... and on a grand scale the death of macroscopic life. (And us along with them).

 

[juvenissun]

The passenger pigeon, once the most abundant bird in Northampton America, indeed the world, now extinct as humanity hunted it, and destroyed its habitat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
So hard to kill off a species? In as little as 400 odd years humanity wiped the most abundant bird on earth from the planet.

This is useless argument.
We killed off some species, but we will never kill off some other species.
So, I say we are OK.

 

[juvenissun]

Oh!

When you said "It would even be hard to kill off ONE species." you meant specifically target a single particular species without widespread unpleasant consequences? You need to be clearer.

No one was asserting that we have that kind of precision, merely that human actions can lead to species extinction... and on a grand scale the death of macroscopic life. (And us along with them).

Someone did. That is why I made such an argument.

 

[juvenissun]

Oh!

When you said "It would even be hard to kill off ONE species." you meant specifically target a single particular species without widespread unpleasant consequences? You need to be clearer.

No one was asserting that we have that kind of precision, merely that human actions can lead to species extinction... and on a grand scale the death of macroscopic life. (And us along with them).

And I will repeat my argument:

Based on the features shown on the "tree of death", I think we are doing OK. We killed animals that have some values to us. What is wrong with that? If we are stupid enough to kill them off, that is too bad. It just add one more example to the statistics in the "tree of death". We made our children not able to see those animals. But, we will continue to survive and the "tree of death" will continue to grow.

Are we human just another species goes up and down in the evolution of life?

 

[Nithavela]

Juvenissun, I never knew that you are a man after my own heart. Let us spread the ultimate gift of death to as many species as possible before mankind finally dies out. The ashes will be glorious.

 

[Black Dog]

You wish. We are not that powerful. It would even be hard to kill off ONE species.

We could go full Venus. That would probably kill all animals, although evolution is amazing so something might survive.

 

[juvenissun]

We could go full Venus. That would probably kill all animals, although evolution is amazing so something might survive.

We could. But we won't, at least for now.

 

[juvenissun]

Juvenissun, I never knew that you are a man after my own heart. Let us spread the ultimate gift of death to as many species as possible before mankind finally dies out. The ashes will be glorious.

It is only a wish (your wish?). It won't happen.

 

[Black Dog]

We could. But we won't, at least for now.

Who knows, we might hit a tipping point. Hopefully the models are relatively accurate. But there is that chance that we are at the tipping point right now, and don't realize it. Long odds probably.

 

[juvenissun]

Who knows, we might hit a tipping point. Hopefully the models are relatively accurate. But there is that chance that we are at the tipping point right now, and don't realize it. Long odds probably.

There is no such tipping point. It is harder to eliminate any life species now.

 

[Black Dog]

There is no such tipping point. It is harder to eliminate any life species now.

I meant where we irrevocably mess up the atmosphere, and the earth turns into an oven a al venus. I've never heard that is impossible, but you could well be correct. Do you have any links to articles saying it is impossible? Have you read (in a science based article) that it is impossible?