Why is it important that humans keep the earth populated?

Question

If all of life were to cease on earth, would it begin again the same way it started?

Answer 1

First of all the woman was made for the man, so we will breed, second part flip a coin!

Answer 2

Short answer: It's not important.

Long answer: No, seriously, it's really NOT important.

Answer 3

Populated with people? I think the rest of the lifeforms on this planet would heave a huge sigh of relief if humans suddenly became extinct.

As far as anyone can tell, life started pretty quickly after the planet gained an ocean. So, even if we were wiped out to the last microbe, in ten million years the sea would be swarming with life again.

Answer 4

Question 1: If you think intelligent life and consciousness are rare and valuable, you might want to preserve this specialness and allow it to spread throughout the universe. On one level, most of us to think of our kind as deserving  preservation. Of course our species has its negative side too. Perhaps it is undeserving. It's an interesting question.

Question 2:  What would cause all life to cease on Earth? Even an all-out nuclear war would not destroy all life on Earth, and evolution would begin again with the bacterial and insect survivors. If life is shown to exist on Mars or the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, we might conclude that whenever the basic ingredients are present(like amino acids), life is inevitable. I'm not sure what you mean by "same way." Whenever there has been a mass extinction, extinct species are not repeated exactly, but  environmental niches do give rise to new organisms often uncannily similar to older forms they replace.

Answer 5

because "important" is a human word? It's important to us, but not necessarily to the rocks. If all life were to cease on earth, it might start again, but that depends on why it stopped in the first place.

Answer 6

It appears earth had and lost life several times before the process that lead to us took hold. Were life to be extinguished it's unlikely that the process would repeat it's self and eventually result in another human race.

Why it's important? I'm here! Don't do anything until I'm gone!

Answer 7

Too vague.

People want to procreate to keep a part of themselves alive.

Is that what you mean ?

Answer 8

The instruction to go forth and multiply was a divine mandate from God to Adam and Eve. However, the Bible also says that God will create a new heavens (plural) and a new earth (singular) and that the former will pass away. It is a scientific fact that the earth will not last forever - the sun has a limited lifespan which means the earth also has a limited lifespan.

How God goes about creating a new heavens and a new earth is not anything I worry about - whether humans will populate a new earth and whether life would start again the same way it did on earth does not concern me. I trust God and his promises and I know that he has provided salvation for those who come to him. I don't worry about the detail.

There are some people who believe that they will live forever on this earth, which will be transformed into a paradise. They say that reproduction will cease after the earth is comfortably populated. I won't be among them, however, because I do not subscribe to their beliefs.

Answer 9

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I don't understand your question.

What do you mean "why is it important that humans keep the Earth populated?"

It would be wrong to kill humans off, because we're living things.

Sorry, I just don't get what you're asking. Maybe try another question, where you explain your question, why you assume what you assume, and what it is you want to know.