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Originally Posted by troutman
Your two statements seem to contradict each other. What makes you so sure the human race will survive, when we have only been on earth for a small fraction of the earth's history?
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We have intelligence and technology. Dinosaurs couldn't build themselves bunkers, clone themselves, travel to the moon. Humans can.
We've still evolving, but very slowly...but our intelligence trumps the forces of nature if we prepare properly. Maybe during the Cold War really really could have wiped out ourselves but if global warming is all that we're fighting, we'll adapt and survive for another few hundred years. Something catostrophic like the Day After Tomorrow is not going to happen.
Humankind will always survive in some manner. There is a huge storage site in Iceland with samples of every seed known to botony. Humans will live on in bunkers, in a few hundred years, we might have some colonies in space. We've only been here a fraction of a percent of the history of life...but in that short time, we've taken over the planet (despite discovering how to destroy it) and have even escaped it's gravity. We're the architects of both our own survival and destruction.