(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Re-post from 2013
Thomas Malthus in 1798 predicted that humans would multiply on the earth until the earth could no longer sustain them. Paul and Anne Ehrlich in 1970 published The Population Bomb which predicted, on the basis of Malthus, a future of massive global starvations. What did happen was the opposite of that (yesterday's post).
What did they miss, since this does happen among animals? The vole population (a sort of mouse) can multiply to the point of outpacing their food supply.
But people are "More Than Voles," as Eric Metaxas put it. Created by their own Creator to create, humans can create their own niche to support themselves. Homo sapiens are not utterly dependent on the natural environment like animals but rather can create wealth.
According to the materialist (there is no supernatural) worldview, humans are just animals. According to the Christian worldview, humans bear the likeness of their Creator.
God gave humans "the intelligence to complete the work of creation . . for their own good and that of their neighbors."
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