When the Christian asks of a pretty but altogether useless bird, "What good is it anyway?" she would do good to remember that the Creator of that bird blessed it, told it to be fruitful and multiply, and declared "It is good." (Gen. 1:20-22)
-me, just now-
I guess the same can be said of cockroaches and mosquitoes!
ReplyDeletewell... the Bible says little about invisible parasites and disease agents, so I'm all with eradicating the Plasmodium genus.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the positive spin on the violence of natural selection is that mosquitoes (by transmitting disease) keep populations from exploding. Which is why I'm so terrified about the next pandemic... (time to buy land in Alaska)