Wowser!
Imagine the destructive power of the Human Race.
If there truly is an "intelligent designer of the universe" which many are starting to think there may be, then he, she or it must be watching what is happening with this experiment called "Earth" and thinking that a big mistake was made with at least one of it's creations.
That is what I would be thinking after reading this article.
(I wonder if Intelligent Designer has access to the internet??)
A few quotes from this report via CNN and originally from Reuters:
"In effect, we are currently responsible for the sixth major extinction event in the history of earth, and the greatest since the dinosaurs disappeared, 65 million years ago," said the 92-page Global Biodiversity Outlook 2 report.
Apart from the disappearance of the dinosaurs, the other "Big Five" extinctions were about 205, 250, 375 and 440 million years ago. Scientists suspect that asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions or sudden climate shifts may explain the five.
A rising human population of 6.5 billion was undermining the environment for animals and plants via pollution, expanding cities, deforestation, introduction of "alien species" and global warming, it said.
CNN.com - Report: Species loss worst since the dinosaurs - Mar 20, 2006
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