It is difficult to imagine that by random chance, from scratch or even that from chaos some form order was created. McCloskey uses the evolutionary theory as part of his attempts to disprove a designer but he must consider that even in this theory there is evidence of a designer. If evolution occurred through the simple mechanics of nature there still needed to be a designer of the machine (Evans pg 83). From the simplest machines to the most complex ones each machine required a designer in order to
I think that to him there are just no other options and he does not want readers to begin to consider not intervening in the lives of wild animals in order to conserve them. Other than this, he does an excellent job of defining his position and then conservationists' ideas of integrity, stability and beauty. He moves on to claim that "human beings are the single largest contributor to this global degradation (of natural systems and biological diversity)." In the third paragraph, it addresses the faulty ideas of words such as "pristine," "undisturbed," and even "wilderness." These words refer to an unattainable ideal in our modern world.
Presented in the argument above, the author claims that a new store should be built in Plainsville. The argument seems at first glance to be a reasonable decision. After a careful inspection, however, one will find that it suffers from several critical flaws as follows, rendering it logically unconvincing as it stands. The threshold flaw with the argument is that the author unfairly assumes residents in P (Plainsville) do highly concerned with leading healthy lives, upon which he finally draws his conclusion. Although the author offers several facts, which seems to be compelling to substantiate his conclusion, these facts actually lend little credence to the author’s claim after close scrutiny.
Rewilding is a tricky method for conservation because it is hard to distinguish between theory and practice. Caroline Fraser tries to connect the two into a realistic idea in her second book Rewilding the World. Specifically, an excerpt from the book called, Rewilding North America, looks at the possibilities of joining theory and practice into a concrete idea to help restore the environment. Theory is defined as “a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to experimentation, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as reporting matters of actual fact” (“Theory” def.2). This is simplified to an idea that hasn’t been proven that contrasts to factual evidence.
Response Paper 2 It is critical to analyze how the authors, Thomas Thwaites view nature throughout The Toaster Project and Raymond Williams in the essay Ideas of Nature challenges people’s views overtime, and how human’s relationship to nature is influenced by human history. According to Raymond Williams There is not one clear analytical opinion on nature from the past as it is complicated and challenging to discuss. Nature is a world of discoveries, everyone discover it differently relating to their field of study and understanding of nature. Some people define “nature” as a word; some people understand nature by its means and contents such as trees, birds, and etc, some compare and contrast nature, mankind and property, however all these views are shaped by external influences of humans on one another and to the nature. In The Toaster Project, Thwaites starts his project from reversing an old toaster with existing technology.
(d) this regulation does not prohibit necessary medical or surgical procedures conducted by licensed, qualified medical personnel. 2. Marine Corps uniform standards of grooming do not allow eccentric or faddish styles of hair, jewelry, or eyeglasses. Eccentricities in individual appearance detract from uniformity and team identity. Because it is impossible to provide examples of every appropriate or unacceptable style of "conservative" or "eccentric" grooming and attire, the good judgment of Marines at all levels is key to enforcement of Marine Corps standards in this issue, as in other issues.
According to Cronon, wilderness is a human creation and therefore the wilderness ethics is not relevant to western problematic relationship with the nonhuman world since it favors only dramatic and sublime landscapes that are untouched by human presence. It does not consider the human interaction with the land and completely disregards the native inhabitants of the supposedly pristine environments: “The removal of Indians to create ‘uninhabited wilderness’ – uninhabited as never before in the human history of the place – reminds us just how constructed, the American wilderness really is” (Cronon 95). The idea of wilderness as it is defined in terms of Euro-American tradition and as such, it reproduces the nature – culture
In order to have a multidisciplinary perspective when conducting research Feather believes that research must be conducted in environments where there is no control over the natural habitat, and that there are no controllable variables. In this way this would be able to develop theories that encompass a large population not just a controlled individual.
Keeping a clear mind and knowing how to deal with worldly challenges is your intellectual health. My intellect is clear and it helps me overcome obstacles but sometimes I can become unclear and go off the wrong path. Environmental health is taking care of the environment and appreciating people that do take care of it. But the Earth is only here for a certain time and for our human bodies. I really don’t care what happens in the environment.
Government, which takes the sustainable development of its people into consideration, should assume responsibility for preserving publicly owned wilderness areas, which, despite having no direct bearing on human lives, is so unique and valuable that no man-made things can substitute. . In the first place, the wilderness areas bespoke real freedom, which has already lost its original meaning in today’s enormous man-made environment. It can be argued that our human beings don’t suffer from the lack of freedom, which can even be find expression in The Declaration of Independence. However, if the freedom is measured by the ability to do whatever one wants, most of us have not so much freedom as supposed.