Monday, July 06, 2009

Shouldn't this bother the creationists more than the evolutionists?

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I mean, we'd be wasting what God made for us 6000 years ago, right? It shows we aren't very good stewards of His creation....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday.

A detailed analysis of these numbers indicates the international community will fail to meet its 2010 goal of bolstering biodiversity -- maintaining a variety of life forms -- a commitment made by most governments in 2002.

Based on data released in 2008 in the union's Red List, the new IUCN analysis is being released now to precede the 2010 target year and to draw a connection between crises in the financial and environmental realms, said report editor Jean-Christophe Vie.

"We don't want to make a choice between nature and the economy; we just want to bring nature to the same level when you have to take a decision," Vie said by telephone from Switzerland.
In fact, I'd assume if God gets really pissed we should watch out for plagues of locusts to Canada and droughts to California and that kind of stuff....

7 comments:

Mike Goldman said...

Why keep picking on California, though? Is it our fault?

ellroon said...

We would have San Andreas as our patron saint...

Mike Goldman said...

I don't know, it sounds like something we'd have to sacrifice victims to, like throwing people into volcanos ever really propitiated it.

Mike Goldman said...

Oooh, but San Andreas is our fault. ):-)

ellroon said...

Kinda hard to sacrifice virgins to a fault line... they just lie there on the dirt waiting for a temblor....

Mike Goldman said...

That sounds interesting, actually.

ellroon said...

LOL!!