Friday, April 03, 2020

"Being forty days tempted of the devil" - A Species Doomed to Go Extinct



Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

A Species Doomed to Go Extinct

It is strange that the mankind does not yet pray to the God, asking rescue from this corona-virus pandemic.

From the beginning, there has been a big possibility that the mankind can be exterminated at any time by various causes in the history, including pandemics, collision with a huge meteor, a sudden drastic change in climates, huge geological disasters, etc.

The present mankind has survived almost 200,000 years.  Especially it is thought that ancestors of peoples living outside Africa today were in a few groups of the mankind in Africa just 50,000 to 80,000 years ago.  So, in rather a short period of time, the mankind has evolved and changed in wide diversity.  But, the earth has its own history of 4.6 billion years.  And, living things have their own history of 4 billion years.  There must be some threats that can exterminate the species of the mankind in the earth, which the mankind has not encountered. Indeed, living things on the earth have ever suffered major extinction in five times since visible living things that could leave their trails in the form of fossils appeared on the earth:

Extinction intensity.svg

Marine extinction intensity during the Phanerozoic (the horizontal scale: in unit of million years):
The blue graph shows the apparent percentage (not the absolute number) of marine animal genera becoming extinct during any given time interval. It does not represent all marine species, just those that are readily fossilized. The labels of the traditional "Big Five" extinction events and the more recently recognised End-Capitanian extinction event are clickable hyperlinks; see Extinction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events

As the above figure shows, the K-Pg extinction, where dinosaurs went extinct, is the newest one among those five major extinction events in the period of 500 million years.  In average, once in 100 million years, one great extinction event occurred.

And as 65 million years have already passed, another great extinction event may happen on the earth at any time.  And, as the recent global warming indicates, it may be related to human activities.

Due to material civilization, some influence may be given to, say, bacteria and viruses.  Chemicals produced by the mankind may change DNA or genes of these bacteria and viruses to generate strong virulence for the mankind.  And the infected mankind may go extinct.

If not by viruses or bacteria, collision with a huge meteor, a sudden drastic change in climates, huge geological disasters, etc. could happen without being stopped by the mankind.  So, existence and development of the mankind is at the hand of the God.

It does not look like this corona-virus pandemic is going to exterminate the mankind.  However, if another pandemic may occur soon after it, the mankind may face a crisis of extermination.  And in the time span of around 40 million years, another major extinction event will surely happen in the earth, wiping out the mankind.

The mankind doomed to go extinct in 40 million years or so should always ask the God to protect it at any time from extinction.  This corona-virus pandemic is a good chance to think of the fate of the mankind as a species in the earth and confirm the need to ask help from the God.

But would the God rescue the mankind most of whom have sold their souls to Satan or are brainwashed by Satan?


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Lu:4:1: And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Lu:4:2: Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Lu:4:3: And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
Lu:4:4: And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.