Bible prophecy coming true - A One World Religious/ Economic/ Government System

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Final-Fan said:

1.  Look.  We were arguing about plant intelligence.  I said whether they are intelligent depends on how you define intelligence, and that they were more intelligent than you thought they were.  You said that they weren't, because it was debatable whether what they had was definable as "intelligence".  I don't know how you could mean that EXCEPT to quibble with the semantics of whether I should be using the term "intelligence" to describe what they had more of than you thought. 

3.  If you want to play it that way, basing your argument on the fact that a food chain goes like 1-2-3 corn-cows-humans, then I could easily argue that getting rid of corn would not doom humans (although it would hurt us).  Your extrapolating that into ALL POSSIBLE PLANT LIFE and still only humans on the other end is what makes you silly. 

4.  Yes, really.  The fact that we prop up the corn food chain for our own benefit is irrelevant to the fact that it is still a food chain.  Just because it would collapse if we disappeared doesn't matter.  "Don't deserve" has nothing to do with the matter at hand. 

5.  There are differing opinions on the amount.  I found data indicating that it's 50% of total photosynthesis instead of 75% of total oxygen supply (including absorption and waterfalls/waves/etc.).  And if all the plants disappeared I bet algae would pick up a lot of the slack; of course there would still be a massive animal holocaust. 

1. Yes, I am quibbling.

3. Corn does not occupy an entire level of the food chain by itself (being domesticated it would be hard to put corn on any level of the food chain BTW). Getting rid of an entire level would possibly doom us, but not just one part of that level, because there would still be other lifeforms on that level (humans occupy an entire level by themselves).

4. What's a "corn food chain"? There's only one food chain (that of Earth), and it's hard to find a place for corn on it. The fact that corn isn't really a prodcut of nature of also quite important.

5. 50% of photosynthesis does not imply 50% oxygen supply. Plants are the chief producers of algae. IF plants disappeared, algae could not pick up the slack for them (unless their populations increased by 75%, which is unlikely, as they would become a huge source of food for aquatic life, and would actually get eaten much quicklier).