It is difficult to measure man's effect on the physical world. By the shear volume of mass, it is not even close to 1% of the tipping point. Global Warming has recently undergone a shake due to its proponents trying to fake the facts, and consequently the results (refer to "The Ends Justify the Means"). It has been stated before: "...What power shall stay the heavens? As well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven..." (Doctrine & Covenants 121:33). Does this infer that man gets a little cocky sometimes, just because he thinks he knows something that someone else may not know? Then there was an incident with a tower where some guys who made some bricks thought that they could build a tower to heaven. The result was confusion, though we don't have all the details, the authority on the matter said that it was pride that was their downfall.
We humans can't handle power or knowledge very well and it seems that when we get a little power, it tends to make us a little heady, and then prideful. It would seem to me that seeing the cosmos in relationship to man, would put us in our place. The human-centric-aristotlean types still think that the universe revolves around Man & Earth, when modern science has proven otherwise. When are we going to admit that the designer of the universe is an intelligent lifeform? There is no way that order can result from chaos, unless acted upon by another, intelligent force! The Bing-Bang apologists need to consider that there was and is an Supernal God! It is the only reasonable explanation.....but of course, this is just my observation.
