If not from God, then everything is part of nature. We chalk up the way birds flock together or how a pride of lions interact with each other to nature. No difference with how humans interact. There is no right or wrong then, just what the general consensus is at that point in time. If we blow up the world with nuclear weapons it is all part of nature. If the world is frozen over in an ice age, or is boiling in a heat wave, it is nature.
That depends on how you define "nature". Here are two common definitions of nature under which your premise do not hold true:
-Nature, n., the
phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants,
animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as
opposed to humans or human creations.
Nature, noun 1., the material world, especially as surrounding humankind and existing independently of human activities.
2. the natural world as it exists with humans or civilization.
And yet there are definitions that would support your premise but only because they are definitions that are anthropocentric rather than biocentric in ... um... nature.
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And yet there are definitions that would support your premise but only because they are definitions that are anthropocentric rather than biocentric in ... um... nature.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Limited to no empathy domain of the bible thumping Cons