It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

God’s creation is a marvel of balance and equilibrium.  In the physical world, everything orbits around something else.  The moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the sun, and the sun orbits our galaxy, the Milky Way.  I’m pretty sure; if our technology was more advanced we would find out that our galaxy orbits something else.

Typical Galaxy, our sun takes 26,000 years to complete a trip around our Galaxy, the Milky Way

The sub-atomic world is very similar in that the negatively charged electrons orbit the positively charged nucleus of every atom and everything is in motion.  This motion is finely balanced by gravity, that mysterious force of attraction that exists between each and every physical body.  If any one thing in the universe changes, every other thing will adjust to maintain the balance.  A beautiful system of equilibrium is always maintained.

A similar system of balance and equilibrium exists in the natural world and it is called evolution.  If the environment changes a little, then all life forms within that environment make adjustments.  Problems can and do arise when the environment changes too rapidly and life forms do not have time to adapt.  In these situations, extinction can occur and a good example of this is the plight of the now extinct Dodo bird.

Dodo

The Dodo bird was endemic to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.  Since food was plentiful and mammalian predators were absent on the island, over eons, the Dodo lost its ability to fly.  For centuries the Dodo lived an idyllic life, but that changed rapidly when 14^th century Dutch sailors arrived and the Dodos were hunted for food by the hungry sailors or their domesticated animals.  Within 80 years of discovery, the Dodo was extinct.  Over years, many other species were extinguished by similar rapid environmental changes, some caused by man, some not.

The environmentalist’s reaction to these extinctions was to adopt a protectionist attitude that I like to call the “Noah’s Ark Syndrome.”  They established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to administer the protection of species they considered “endangered.”  They taxed the populace to support legions of guardians to oversee hundreds of thousands of set-aside refuges for their ever growing list of endangered life forms and if a refuge did not exist, they created one and called it a “habitat.”  In spite of recent disease outbreaks such as Hantavirus, Lyme disease and others, many of these habitats are right in the middle of our communities, breeding mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, the very carriers of those diseases.

It is lunacy to think we can control things better than Mother Nature.  Here in the West, the Mountain Lion is a shining example of the impossibility of it all.

Mountain Lion/Cougar

When the Mountain Lion was put on the endangered species list, it proliferated and began devouring the Big Horn Sheep which then became endangered itself.

Big Horn Sheep

Suddenly it was ok to kill off a few Mountain Lions to save the sheep.  In the East, the Red Deer is a good example.  When the Red Deer was put on the EPA’s protected list it proliferated until they were roaming the highways and byways and it took several motorists deaths until they realized it would be ok to hunt the Red Deer again.

Red Deer

The real danger in all of this is that the “Noah’s Ark Syndrome” has thwarted God’s plan and stopped evolution in its tracks.  When species should be adapting to our changing environment, the EPA is setting aside areas where the environment isn’t allowed to change.  Life forms that should be allowed to fall by the wayside are being artificially sustained and it’s costing us a lot of money!  When we run out of money or the idiots realize the futility of it all and abandon their efforts to control nature, the real problem will show itself.  The artificially sustained species will die off and the specie that should have naturally replaced them will not be there.  That is when we will have true extinction.