5 million species of fungi is the of number of them worldwide.Each ecosystem is different.Techno2000:
You said that they were necessary components of the eco system. You know, food chains etc. Are they part of the system or not?
So He has to have 5 million species to help sustain eco systems? You said they were necessary. But I still can’t see God needing to create 5 million different types of anything, especially funghi, to ‘maintain ecosystems’.Wozza:
5 million species of fungi is the of number of them worldwide.Each ecosystem is different.Techno2000:
You said that they were necessary components of the eco system. You know, food chains etc. Are they part of the system or not?
Who knows? It depends on our habitat. We may go extinct long before then.
That doesn’t even make sense with respect to my previous post. But clearly, if your best argument is to simply declare the science “false” then there’s little point in anybody engaging with you.
God is a fun guy.
If the cap fits… I’d certainly be interested in where you got your ideas of what evolutionary theory says.
Yes, different fungi, for different kinds ecosystems.
So each one matches the requirements of the environment in which it finds itself. It is suited for its environment. OK.Wozza:
Yes, different fungi, for different kinds ecosystems.
Evolve to match the new environment is a fairy tail, none of that happens in the real world we live in . It dies , end of story, there’s no new fit offspring waiting in the wings to save the day.
So if God made 5 million species of funghi and the environment changes (as it has) then why make species that He knows are going to die?Wozza:
Evolve to match the new environment is a fairy tail, none of that happens in the real world we live in . It dies , end of story, there’s no new fit offspring waiting in the wings to save the day.
He did, then the fall of man ruined it.
You are twisting what I said ,I didnt even mention God. I said, you are going to need an huge amount of environmental changes to account for the huge amount of different species .Techno2000:
So if God made 5 million species of funghi and the environment changes (as it has) then why make species that He knows are going to die?Wozza:
Evolve to match the new environment is a fairy tail, none of that happens in the real world we live in . It dies , end of story, there’s no new fit offspring waiting in the wings to save the day.
Your argument, Techno, seems to rest on God not having a good grip on how to run a planet.
If we have 5 million species that are perfectly adapted right now as God planned to suit the curtent environment, then there must have been so many that died as the environment changed.
Not sure why you think He coulden’t get it right the first time.
How does that work? How can the new environment wait millions of years for evolution to produce something suitable?
So as the environment now is so different in all parts of the world then it has been, then if all 5million species of funghi were suitable for a specific environment then they should have all died out.Wozza:
How does that work? How can the new environment wait millions of years for evolution to produce something suitable?
Is there some sort of evidence that backs this up? A sudden change six thousand years ago in the fossil record or similar?Wozza:
He did, then the fall of man ruined it.
You have it the wrong way round. A mountain (the environment) can exist without any species adapted to live on it. Only after the mountain exists can plants and animals begin to adapt to living at higher and colder altitudes.
The 5 million old species died out and 5 million new species evolved. Techno seems to be assuming that species are static. They are not. Old species go extinct and new species evolve all the time. The average mammal species lasts about 500,000 years. Mammals have been around for 70 million years. Species come and go while the larger clade carries on for longer.
There definitely seems to be a misunderstanding. He appears to accept that the environment changes. So if there were millions of species of funghi at any one time in the past, each specifically suited to it’s environment - as @Techno2000 implies, then they would die out as the environment changed. Unless they changed as well.Wozza:
The 5 million old species died out and 5 million new species evolved. Techno seems to be assuming that species are static. They are not. Old species go extinct and new species evolve all the time. The average mammal species lasts about 500,000 years. Mammals have been around for 70 million years. Species come and go while the larger clade carries on for longer.
The 2nd law. Things were better at the beginning and deteriorating vs things were bad at the beginning and now getting better.