Imagine if you will the human beings place within the animal kingdom. We can be described as top of our food chain, a successful bipedal ape and the dominant species on this planet but are we the most successful? Well if numbers are to go by then no we are not there are far more species with vastly greater numbers than humans. Are we the most destructive? Yes by far we inflict more environmental damage compared to the impact other species have. Are we the most intelligent ? well that’s open to debate is destroying the things we rely on most intelligent who knows.
One thing is certain we are widespread and diverse in culture and belief and our impact on this planet will be long lasting.

With that in mind how will what we leave be seen?

Imagine now, eons after we have become extinct and the rain of man has folded to the passage of time and a new sentience has evolved and discovers the remnants of humanity. What conclusions will be drawn from what is found what perceptions will our successor hold of our brief time, what will be made of our culture our beliefs our lives what will be made of science, religion, politics’ what ever, should any evidence survive?

How will we be known?

The Foolish ape, perhaps the gullible mammal who knows

How do you feel Humanity will be seen in such a scenario?

And please try to use a non religious perspective

Unfortunately we are not the most intelligent mammal on the planet, we just imagine since we have evolved to where we can communicate across the range and breadth of our planet, see us and our solar system with eye's in space, and annihilate this great jewel with the press of the button nations strive to acquire to threaten other nations in self defense, that we are.


Given all this and that, I consider your question;


If we keep going as that greedy self destructive force we are as a species possessed of the highest acumen and the lowest motives, I'd say,




like a quasar.

I would venture to say that nothing will be found of us. If all life, or at least humankind, was completely wiped out, it would take eons for another 'intelligent' creature to evolve. Their archeologists would find the creatures that preceded them, not our bones.

Interesting to think... somewhere deep under all the dinosaurs and trilobytes we've unearthed, there could be signs of another civilization like ours.

Of course, science does not back this up, but funky to think about.

this belongs in the nature section not in here.......this is the skeptical side of "RELIGION.

We may not be the most intelligent but once thing is for cert...man is the most deadliest of them all and you can bank on that

Humans are the dominate species. We have big enough guns to blow a hole in anything. I dont see apes inventing computers either.

Please list one animal that has accomplished more than man. List one animal that has discovered space, uses complicated equations, and has the knowledge that man has. Please list what any animal has accomplished (besides becoming extinct) and then compare it to the millions of accoplishments man has come up with. This statement holds no water.

damn right ms mom

umm i didnt mean to qoute your comment "sherri" ..so dont feel special...lol jk
I ment Beckys mom

She would feel special so dont flatter yourself

No it's not. It's just as much for the Religious people as it is the spectics. This isn't the "Skeptics of Religion" forum, it's the "Spirituality And Skepticism" forum. I still do not understand why you insist this forum is more for the skeptics.

You posed some good questions, but if you want to keep religion out of it this is the wrong section to do it. I think the "Mysteries Of Mind, Space & Time" would have been a better choice.

How many other animals on this dust ball of a planet are willingly committing suicide, mass murder? Poisoning their enviroment? Able to destroy themselves many times over?

I agree with IF that we are not the most intelligent mammal.

We write history. Thus we are at the center. I would like to see the history of the world as perceived by cetaceans.

That would be something to read.

they already have it. we call it "whale songs", and don't understand it. hasn't anyone seen star trek 6?

OK let me reword that.....If only we could understand their history then.

Have you ever heard whale songs?

Whale song

^^^
Yes, I have. It is fascinating.

List one mammal, not extinct, that: defiles it's environment and compromises it's survival through wanton acts of killing?

There is no doubt the human mammal is intelligent. However it is a retarded consciousness that desecrates one's habitat, so as to gain more possession for one's self.
Where do we put all that "stuff", when the planet is but a whisper on solar winds because some nation decided the ultimate exercise of dominion is destroying not only the enemy, but the prize? (If I cant have it we'll all die together mentalities)

Think of suicide bombers that detonate themselves for a cause. And all the while that cause keeps that which they thought to martyr themselves against, alive as the cause to stop the cause of martyrdom!
Sick cyclical reality. That's the domain of the human animal. Same story, different era. We never learn, we just evolve to kill ourselves better!

This world is not kisses and poseys. It's at all times a dance of survival of the fittest. Predator and prey, life and death. Always! However it is no wise creature that kills itself in the process of killing others, for the sake of dominion.

Yeah, but it was Star Trek 4 with the whale song

yes P.A. it was star trek 4 the voyage home

I was wondering when someone was going to correct Star Trek 6 to 4 for the whale songs. However, if memory serves, wasn't that the same episode where the planet was being threatened by something like a giant turd? Anyone remember that?! stationed just outside the planetary atmosphere, turning slowly, that's exactly what it looked like to me. Which made it combined with the whale song just a little odd.