The Earth Does Not Care About Humans


Reading these days about global warming make one realize the earth is going about what it has done for millions of years and does not know or care one twit about humans. For nearly all of its existence, there were no humans on earth. Only recently did we show up. There are scenarios, i.e. models, where humans are no longer on earth. The entire process of life would start over. While it's impossible to know for certain the future, we know a lot about the past. There were no humans.

For some reason, this absence of humans for most of the earth's history does not register much in the human mind. So far as I know, every religion has a fictious story about the beginning of the earth. And, it usually has humans central to the tale. The book of Genisis has man created right there at the beginning. Then it goes on to falsely claim man is the ruler of everything else. That would be nice if it were only true.  

It seems like people around the globe would make better decisions about the future if all people in all nations would agree all humans are insignificant compared to the earth. There is this foolish often repeated that for something to exist someone has to create it. This is meant to imply, of course, that God created the earth. What if, instead, such people told the truth. That truth is no one knows where the earth "came from." We only know it existed millions or maybe billions of years before any plants of animals showed up. Humans showed up long after that. The earth was doing fine before humans. It will do fine long after humans have vanished. Humans are of no interest to earth.

One reason why it has always been popular to claim humans are more important than they are is people love to hear this. And, what people like to hear makes money and controls others. Many generalize about the Bible by noting it is full of ways to control the lessors. God tells us we are to obey him. Jesus says our sins are forgiven if we are devoted fans.

In reality, neither God, nor Jesus nor the people they control are important to earth.  

Comments

  1. little helperJanuary 22, 2023 at 7:19 PM

    re. "Devoted fans". You sound like a student of Joel Osteen. What a guy.

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