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Originally Posted by pylon
Yes, but humanity is accelerating the problem. It is not 'natural' to use complex machines to rip sharks out of the ocean by the millions simply to harvest their fins. It is not natural to hunt an animal from helicopters with high powered rifles to simply extract its horn.
This is a good article:
http://www.theguardian.com/environme...species-evolve |
Ignoring any kind of deity, it is perfectly natural for humans to use tools to hunt as we evolved this abilty from nature. Also most evolution occurs during mass extinction events. For example when cyanobacteria started to create oxygen. This event caused the extinction of most of the Earths Anaerobic organisms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
Were the cyanobacteria a scourge to be eliminated from the earth, should they have eliminated themselves because they produced too much oxygen beyond what the natural syncs could handle. This mass extinction event led to whole new organisms becoming dominant while eliminating many. It caused a monoculture of oxygen tolerant organisms to exist. From this monoculture grew diversity.
So I contend that humans are better than cyanobacteria because we at least put a token effort into conservation.