If no new species can evolve, but (as not even creationists dispute) species can go extinct, then the extinction of species over time causes biodiversity to inexorably trend toward zero.
If no new species can evolve, but (as not even creationists dispute) species can go extinct, then the extinction of species over time causes biodiversity to inexorably trend toward zero.
Yeah, Chapter 1 of the first book is
“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ … God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’”
So it’s like how could the exploitation of natural resources possibly produce consequences? It would be sinful not to be fruitful. If instead they were asked to be a steward of the living creatures they’d just ignore it though