We’re just trying to get to the 1,000 years of peace! Evil is rampant- we can all agree- the only remedy is for enough of us to pray to mitigate what cannot be stopped but hopefully protect loss of life of the innocent as much as possible. More prayer = less darkness or at least the ripples of good are being sent out like the ripples of evil. We need more good ripples!!

Then there is St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:21-23 "All things are yours, whether it be Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future; all these are yours, and you are Christ's and Christ is God's."

Fair point, but the verse in Genesis 1 still demonstrates the original purpose of creation, which still validates my point. I merely intended to point out that it's unfair to suggest that it's some inherent evil to exert dominion over the world.

Bringing order to chaos (nature) is a good thing, and God wants us to do it. The world does not belong to nature, nature belongs, rightfully, to us (God made it to give to us, and God's will doesn't change).

I'd say it's also important to consider that the Bible was given to us for a purpose, and this happened after sin. It's not like that verse was written right when it happened. Everything in the Bible teaches us something about God, creation, ourselves, etc. So this tells us that it is an inherent moral good to exert our will over nature. It can't be bad, or God would never have told us to do it.