Great post! If this is a freewrite, I'm in awe. Surely it's been edited, right?
I edit mine every time. Never do I post the first five minutes of jibberish streaming from my head.
With "no reliable proof of the causes of their extinction, among the set of hypotheses is the indiscriminate hunting for the resources that this animal provided to the men who lived in their time."
All the big animals went extinct shortly after humans appeared in their neck o' the woods.
If a loving Creator God allowed this, one has to wonder WHY....
The comet that allegedly took down the dinosaurs did this: it turned North America from a tropical jungle to a desert wasteland. Millions of years passed before the continent came to life again.
That's what I read in a Tim Flannery book, anyway.
Another Ice Age may be heading our way, according to sci-fi authors and some scientists.
Who know what life on earth will look like in another million+ years.