“ And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name
that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto
them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger,
and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under
the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they held:
And they cried with a loud
voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”
(Revelation 6:8-10)
The world population increased from 1 billion
in 1800 to 7.7 billion today.
The human population has more than tripled in the past 70 years,
from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 7.8 billion today
Thomas Malthus Essay:
In 1798 Thomas Malthus who was an 18th-century British philosopher and economist wrote in his famous essay about food shortage that are unable to cope with the growth of world population which is now called the Malthusian growth model.
He used an exponential
formula to project population growth. His theory describes how food production will not be able to keep
up with growth in the human population, resulting in disease, famine, war, and
calamity.
In his Essay on the Principle of Population he raised the question of how population growth was not only related to the economy good and bad, but asserted that population multiplies geometrically and food arithmetically, and hence whenever the food supply increases, the population will rapidly grow to eliminate its abundance. He predicted in the future, there would not be enough food for the whole of humanity to consume and people would starve, and until that point is reached, the more food being made available, the more the population would increase.
He also affirmed that there would be a
fight for survival amongst humans and that only the strong who could attain
food and other needs would survive, unlike the impoverished population he saw
during his time.
Food Supply and Overpopulation:
The key problem is not just inadequate
food in the limited space we have for all, but also over population bring about
disease such as Covid-19 we are now facing.
China, India, United States,
Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia and Mexico for
instance have the some of the highest population in the world.
India is the country with the largest Muslim population outside Muslim-majority countries with about 200 million
adherents.
Population vs. Agricultural Land:
There is land approximately five billion
hectares, or 38 percent of the global
land surface used in agriculture to feed a growing numbers of
people in the world. About a third of
this is used as
cropland, while the remaining two-thirds are meadows and pastures for grazing
livestock.
Some
estimates say we have about 27,194,875 sq. km of farmable land left in the
world. Most of it located in Africa, and
Central and South America.
This is
slightly less than double the amount of land we are currently using for crops
according to some satellite observations.
According to one source quote from
FAO “the minimum amount of agricultural land necessary for sustainable food
security, with a diversified diet similar to those of North America and Western
Europe (hence including meat), is 0.5 of a hectare (0.005 sq. km or 5,000 sq.
metres) per person”.
“This does not allow for any land
degradation such as soil erosion, and it assumes adequate water supplies. Very
few populous countries have more than an average of 0.25 of a hectare.
It is realistic to suppose that the
absolute minimum of arable land to support one person is a mere 0.07 of a
hectare–and this assumes a largely vegetarian diet, no land degradation or
water shortages, virtually no post-harvest waste, and farmers who know
precisely when and how to plant, fertilize, irrigate, etc.”
(Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations).
Our problem is there is over crowding by humans on the surface on
Earth. It is estimated that in the natural
world there is about 8.7 million species of other life forms not just human
beings alone that share the surface of this world, but also untold numbers of
different types of microorganisms and viruses that too need to live with us, and
they have every right to share this world of ours
With such vast biodiversity of life
sharing the same home as us, the Creator who is an Intelligent Designer or God
who created all of them need to step in to reduce human overgrowth at the
expanse of all other life He too created that has every right to be here
Famine, Plagues and Pestilence:
In a number of places in the Bible, there is mention of plagues,
pestilence, or pandemics killing people. For instance, in Lev. 26:25, when
Israel falls into covenant violations, God says, “I will send pestilence among
you.”
In II Chronicles 6:28, Solomon says if there is pestilence, famine
or blight, may God hear from the temple the prayers of the people.
The chapter that follows in II Chron. 7:13, it says that if God sends
pestilence, the people can pray and humble themselves (v. 14). But in our
current Covid pandemic we fight with Him with our all kinds of unproven drugs
and controversial vaccines instead of humbling ourselves
Plague number four on the Egyptians is pestilence on their
livestock, and as a result they all die as mentioned in Exod. 9:3-6. This
indirectly cut off their food supply and they died.
In II Sam. 24:15, God sends a pestilence that kills 70,000
Israelites because of David’s ill-conceived census.
Jesus spoke in Luke 21:11 mentioned that there will great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences. Both Ezekiel and Jeremiah spoke of plagues being sent by God.
In Ezekiel 33:27, it spoke of those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.
In Jeremiah 21:6 it
spoke of God striking down those who live in this city, both man and
beast, and they will die of a terrible plague.
In Jeremiah 21:9, it is written “whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but
whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he
will retain his life like a spoil of war”
In Revelation 6:8 too,
there were revelation of the “Pale Rider” that kills a fourth of the earth
with the sword, famine, and pestilence.
However, in Psalm 91:1 He gives us protection
to those:
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most
High
will rest in
the shadow of the Almighty…(Psalm 91:1)...”no harm will overtake you, no disaster
will come near your tent” (91:10).
This assurance is echoed again in 2nd
Chronicles 7:14:
“If my
people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”
The Rise of Humans:
Having said all that, I think this pandemic has both a
divine as well as a biological purpose to get rid of us with our excessive
population at the expense of all other creatures He too have created.
Humans are the most destructive of all creatures on
this planet. They way we produce, consume, congest and pollute would cause
death not only to us, but to all other life forms that too need to be here, and
have every right to remain here including this SARS-Covid-2 virus.
We destroy not just the environment with our excessive
greed by building all kinds of structures, factories, houses, buildings, cars,
motorbikes and having personal properties here and there, as well as building
up cities…etc using up limited natural resources such as forests, jungles,
water reserves, meadows and land meant for other life forms as well.
All these structures, personal properties here and
there are really unnecessary for our very temporal biological existence at
maximum 100 years before we return to the soil from where we came. This world
just cannot accommodate for long every individual who starts to collect and
accumulate all kinds of unnecessary non-life giving materials for only for himself.
We are short of agricultural
land meant for food production. This planet of ours is not meant for
individuals buying and accumulating fleets of cars and having several houses
and other unnecessary personal properties for himself.
We just cannot afford all these at the expense of
space for other living creatures too that have a right to stay here.
Brief History of Evolution:
Here is a short history on the evolution of various lives
on Earth:
4,500 –
4,400 million years ago (Mya). Accretion of Earth
4,200
million years ago (Mya) Atmosphere and oceans form
4,000 million
years ago (Mya) Prebiotic chemistry became possible
3,800
million years ago RNA world shown by the first chemical fossil available
(viruses)
3,600
million years ago the first DNA protein life came into existence
3,500
million years ago LUCA: Archaea / Bacteria spilt and also photosynthesis
(autotrophy) began
2,700 –
1,900 million years ago the first eukaryotes / sexual reproduction became
possible
1,000 Mya ?
650 Mya
Metazoans
575 Mya
Oldest large organisms
555 Mya
Oldest sponge fossils
542 – 488
Mya Cambrian Radiation
525 Mya
Earliest vertebrates
440 Mya
First vascular land plants
425 Mya
First jawed vertebrates
420 Mya
Earliest terrestrial animals
396 Mya
First insects
365 Mya
Plants evolves seeds and first tetrapods
354 Mya
Insects flight
350 Mya
First land-swelling vertebrates
240 Mya
First dinosaurs
210 Mya
First mammals
200 Mya
Pangea breakup begins
150 Mya
Archaeopteryx / birds flight
140 Mya
Flowering plants
128 – 124
Dinosaurs flight
125 Mya
Mammalian gliding flight
105 – 95 Mya
Gondwanaland breakup
90- 80 Mya
Formation of Galapagos geological hot spot
57 – 53 Mya
Whale ancestor
55 Mya
Australia breaks away from Antarctica
51 Mya
Mammalian powered flights (bats)
50 Mya First
fossil Equidae
45.6 Whale
ancestor
40 Mya
Primate order diverges
35 Mya First
grasses evolve
30 Mya
Old-world / new-world monkey spilt
25 Mya
Old-world monkey / apes split. Also Drosophila melanogaster / D. obscura split
15 Mya Apes
migrate to Asia
6 -7 Mya
Sahelanthropus
5 - 4 Mya
Common ancestors of chimps and humans. Formation of current Galapagos Islands
3.6 Mya
Panama Isthmus rise / Lucy fossil / Australopithecus afarensis footprints
2.5 Tool use
1.8 Mya Homo
habilis out of Africa
1.6 Mya Homo
erectus in Asia
600,000
years ago Human / Neanderthal spilt
500,000
years ago Homo erectus use fire
355,000 Homo
heidelbergensis footprints
200,000
years ago. Anatomically modern human
250,000 –
160,000 Homo sapiens
120,000 Homo
language possible
100,000
years ago Wolf / dog split
79,000 –
15,000 years ago. Start of Wisconsin glaciations
50,000 years
ago. Humans migrate from Asia to Australia
45,000 years
ago. Megafauna extinction in Australia
30,000 years
ago. Human migration from Asia to North America
14,000 –
10,000 years ago. Domestication of dog and Megafauna extinction in North
America
12,000 years
ago. Early agriculture
8,000 years
ago Domestication of cattle
6,000 years
ago Domestication of horse
3,000 years
ago Iron tools
We can see humans only came in very, very
late when most other life have already inhibited this world, most of them
during the Cambrian Explosion 542 – 488 million years ago.
But after the emergence of humans, we became
very destructive to the environment and to the ecosystem as we are encroaching
and destroying the places and habitats of many other species of life till many
have become extinct.
We breed like cancer cells invading into
the entire ecosystem of all other life, including ours to destroy ourselves as
well as all other lives from the way we produce, consume, congest and pollute
If life needs to continue and stabilize,
our human population needs to be in checked. If we do not bother about this
problem like in India, the Intelligent Designer who created all life, including
us need to step in to periodically cut us down our human growth without mercy by
about ¼ of the world population?
We can see
this clearly being executed in the United States and in India where the
mortality rates from this Covid-19 pandemic is the highest with 33,515,308 total
cases 6,411,702 active cases, and 596,179 deceased in the United States with a
population of 330,255,083 as on 11 May, 2021, and
22,992,517 total cases, 3,715,188 active cases, and 250,025 deceased in India with
a total population of 1,391,840,895
as on 11 May, 2021
Compared to China her current
population is 1,444,085,115 as of Tuesday, May 11, 2021, based on the latest
United Nations data, and she has only 90,783 total cases, with just 302
currently active ones, while only 4,636 have deceased as on Tuesday, 11 May,
2021.
Although China has a larger
population than India we can see the huge difference between China and India in
mortality rates because at least China takes great efforts to contain her
population with just one child per couple policy, while India could not be
bothered
We can see how the Creator see
grace in China for her human effort, and I believe He being a Creator sees this
to drastically bring down her mortality rate from Covid there, compared to
India where He has to step in to cut down her unchecked human population with
very high mortality rate from this pandemic
I think our Intelligent Designer
has a divine purpose of stabilizing human growth on this Earth He created for
the continuing welfare and survival of all life here on this only home we share
together with all other creatures He too created. He too needs to look after them.
Human Growth like Cancer Cells:
We multiply on Earth like cancer cells invading the
entire surface of this only home of ours.
Think of each human as a cancer cell multiplying like
a cancer cell. Think of the entire world as our only body on which other types
of cells that make up the tissues, organs and finally the system that need also
to live.
Think of these different cells, not just our own, but
they represent other life forms and species on Earth that too have a right to
live and survive here.
If our human populations spread like cancer cells left
unchecked, what shall happen to this entire world (our body)? Don’t we think we shall all perish along with
all other species of life other than the viruses and the bacteria that were
already there between 3,800 million to 3,500 million years ago until today?
He is like a surgeon who needs
to cut off an overgrowing malignant cancer in the body in order to save the
rest.
An Evolutionary Threat:
The human race emerged on Earth very much later than
all other life species. We were very late comers here, only about 3,000 years
ago.
Today, the human race is a threat to all other living
species. He kills wild life like elephants for their tusks, tigers for their
penises and rhinoceros for their horns for traditional medicines. Other species
of life include the Bornean
Orangutan, Amur Leopard, Hawksbill
Turtle, Cross River gorilla among a long list
Humans kill them using guns, traps, and
hunting weapons. These harmless creatures are defenseless against our weapons.
These creatures came between the tiny
viruses and bacteria and humans in their evolutionary history but are helpless
against our might.
However, as Nature prescribes, the untold
myriads of pathogenic bacteria and viruses such as Sars-Cov-2, as if by
deliberate design have come in between us and other larger animals to kill off
large human population who threatens other forms of life with their guns and
weapons
Unto these tiny, tiny viruses no human
guns or even our nuclear weapons would be able to get rid of them. Their army
such as the SARS-Covid-2 viruses was sent in untold numbers here:
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=viruses+covering+earth
Their presence such as Sars-Cov-2 viruses
acts appropriately to kill off large population of humans to keep us in check
against other life forms that too need to share this planet as their home. This
virus has every right to act on behalf of other animals that we destroy to eliminate
us.
Both the virus and the animals too have
the right to be here to continue to exist. This world also belongs to them, not
just for humans. In what way must they need to give way to us as neither we
created this world nor them.
In fact they inherited this Earth a few
thousand million years earlier than us. These viruses have every right to get
rid of us humans who came in so much later as the last ‘animal’
zoologically-speaking in the evolution of life.
We kill off the larger beasts, but the
insignificant-tiny virus is by far mightier than us that no hunting guns can
destroy. They were sent in defense of all other life species existing on Earth.
It is the Intelligent Designer choice of having His plan by sending a pandemic
of viruses down on Earth to keep us in check like proliferating cancer cells
here.
Only for Humans:
Ironically, this virus has spared all other animals from being killed. There have been reports of animals like cats and dogs, big cats and gorillas in zoos or in sanctuaries, mink on farms, and a few other mammals that possibly may have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, but none of them has been reported dead from this infection.
Some of the animals like bats and pangolins may only serve as a reservoir for SARS-CoV-2 as healthy carriers, but so far out of nearly 10 million species of animals, none of them has been reported dead even when infected.
Their role is merely to store large numbers of SARS-CoV-2 in their bodies to pass them specifically only to humans to kill us. This speaks volumes about us. .
In short, this virus seems to target only humans, using some animals as carriers to keep them ‘alive’ and pathogenetically potent to attack specifically humans.
His divine purpose of implanting this pandemic here in this world is also in line with the laws of “Natural Selection” proposed by Charles Darwin for the “Survival of the Fittest” as suggested by Herbert Spencer in 1864 in his “The Principles of Biology”.
Natural or Man-Made Virus:
It is claimed by
United States that this virus was man-made at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Past President of United States Donald Trump labeled it as “Chinese virus”
Whether or not it
was man-made or natural peppered onto Earth by comets from the Oort Cloud it is
still directly or indirectly the plan of our Intelligent Designer who may
indirectly directs the thinking minds of scientists whom He too created and
programmed to create this virus.
The analogy is similar to a robot (AI) that is programmed by us
as gods to carry out a specific task for us. We as ‘gods’ may be able to carry
out the job ourselves directly. Alternatively, we may also program the robot to
do the same task for us. The result is the same.
Divine and Biological
Purpose in One:
We can see this Natural Selection of the fittest being executed
in Covid pandemic where the highest mortality were among the elderly, and those
with co-existing morbidities, and those who are genetically less fit to survive
to give way to the younger, newer and more robust generations.
Last to emerge, First to Disappear:
Our human race was the last to emerge in the history of
Evolution, but we would also be the first to be wiped out from the surface of
this Earth because of our unnecessary demands other than food, clothing and
shelter and our haughty and proud human nature.
No
other species of life on Earth demand the things we do for their simple living.
These
other creatures need to give way to us for us to build all types of concrete
structures, bridges, cities, cars, machineries..etc., at their
expense
We
are the proudest and the most destructive of all living creatures, while the
bacteria and viruses are the tinniest, together with all other lower
living that are the humblest and the most meek to give way to us, but they are
most blessed in their abundance with an estimated 10 million species among them.
We are just one.
There
shall come a time our technology and our sciences will wipe us all out from the
surface of this world, and those other lower and the meek creatures like
bacteria, viruses, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects..etc., in their hundreds
of thousands of millions will take over and overrun us as the most
blessed creatures to inherit this Earth after
we are wiped out since they are the forerunners of all life that evolved
hundreds of millions of years before us.
Blessed
Are the Meek:
They
lower the class of life, the more humble and meek they are, not us humans. There shall come a time our technology and our sciences will
wipe us all out from the surface of this world, and other lower and meek creatures will flourish again to overrun
us as the most blessed to inherit this Earth since they are the forerunners of
all life that evolved hundreds of millions of years before us.
Read an alternative explanation here:
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=+bacteriologist+and+his+culture+of+bacteria
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