Do we have to survive as a species?

Question

We seem to think we have to survive, but the dinosaurs didn't nor other species. What makes us think we do have to and is this the plan. Perhaps we too have a shelf life. Then some other species on Earth will become dominant after we are gone. What species will inherit the earth?

Answer 1

All i know is our answer is in the stars...... No not Horrorscopes.

Mars, or that other earth like plannet Alpha-Centuri or whatever it's called now.

Answer 2

Good question, I suppose the only people who think so are us,do we deserve to that is the real question, we are all greedy wanting more of everything, the best of everything despite the cost to anyone and anything.Only time will tell

Answer 3

God created man in His own image and in the image of God created He them...

Adam was the first man on this earth and he was given Eve as a helpmeet for neither is the man without the woman nor the woman without the man in the Lord. Man has dominion over this earth. We are all stewards over all the creations on this earth at which in some point in time we will stand before the Lord and give an accounting of our stewardship. Remember the parable of the talents?  As Lord Alfred Tennyson said in his poem: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, the soul that rises with us, our life's star hath elsewhere its setting and cometh from afar; not in entire forgetfulness, nor in utter nakedness, but in trailing clouds of glory do we come from God who is our home." Man was born into this world to one day die and as Christ arose from the dead on the third day so to our souls will reunite with our physical bodies to die no more. Shelf life? in the eternities we will have an infinite shelf life.

Answer 4

This is  a very wise and deep question. You are right of course and I would prefer it if we did not survive. Were not gonnae anyway. I have thought about this many times and if you star me I will give you a thumbs up some stage.!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

As my anthro professor loves to say "extinction is the RULE not the exception"...meaning everything eventually becomes extinct, including Homo sapiens.  For us it will probably be disease that overtakes our populations..followed by wars and chaos due to the epidemics.

If I had to pick a species that will be next to inherit the Earth (if that is what we have done) I choose the cockroach.  There is a species that has been around a h**l of alot longer than us and will be around long after our fossilized bones become dust!  Ask a New Yorker about their resiliency!  lol

Answer 6

you are right sort of.... we ahave no way of knowing what the dinosaurs thought, however we have to think that it is one of the bigest fears in the human physcy to lose something (i.e. life).  most people want to live and see their families live on and on however it is fact that someday something will happen that will lead to our demise, unless we stand up and do something about it.... and many people believe we must do this to perserve the race of humans. once we are gone most likely another form will evolve and take over you are right, however we as humans have had the largest known impact on the world as of now

Answer 7

why?

Answer 8

Your question doesn't really have a point. living is a natural instinct that is in all of us, but if our time comes it comes, its not really a decision to be made by anyone for if we should move over and let some other species take control, im sure the dinosaurs didn't make a conscious decision to wipe them selves out.

Answer 9

Badgers.

Answer 10

I guess you would have to get into a dinosaurs psyche, but I honestly don't think they put that much thought into it. I hope its a brand new species, like dinasours roamed before humans began and I hope I have a freak encounter with one of 'em someday.

Answer 11

how do you know what the dinosaurs thought? they were wiped out most probably, just as we could be. they may have been driven by a similiar desire to survive..plausible because if they weren't, they would not have evolved to the state they were in. the same applies for other species today. if there was no desire to survive, there would be no need for self monitoring and maintenance to sustain life (eg, feeling hungry and thus searching for food, mating, fighting)

if we get wiped out, the next species to inhabit the earth will be one that survives whatever wipes us out and thrives in the conditions relative to others. and that really depends on how we wipe ourselves out.

Answer 12

we dont need to think about this

Answer 13

That species that's willing to do the work that people wont do.

Answer 14

i agreee with the guy who said badgers...

Answer 15

First off cockroaches will be the only known survivor of a nuclear war. 2 roaches w/o a source of food besides each other becoming a bath tub full in 30 days kind of makes them dominant after a nuclear holocaust.

The difference between us & dinosaurs is we consciously think & reason, not just react. No matter how bad things get I believe some will survive be it God's grace, chance or something scientific.

But if it's just me & billions of cockroaches I think I prefer annihlation. lol!

Answer 16

The meek.

Answer 17

There is no reason some plague couldn't hit tomorrow and wipe out the entire human race.  And after the mess we've made of the planet, what species would even want it?

Answer 18

I don't believe that humans have a "shelf life" as you put it. Other species before us had to adapt and evolve to the environment. Humans however manipulate the environment to suit us. We build houses and wear clothing to deal with climate changes. We have medical procedures to fix or cure a variety of illnesses. We've kind of taken ourselves out of the evolutionary picture. I think that it would take a major catastrophic event, killing all humans to have another dominant species.

Answer 19

Survival as a species is not a given but rather depends on what we are or what we become and how we choose to deal with whatever abilities we develop ,as to what species will inherit the planet well if we don't destroy it I'd guess it'll be something insect related.