Mankind isn't the world. We're just the species with so much ego that we presume we are. However, I like to think that we'll learn to live with our technology, eventually explore the cosmos and colonize different areas of the Milky Way. This would make humanity essentially eternal. It's a pipe dream, I know. I just hope reason and rationality win out over ego.
Tell ya what, I'll put my faith in God's word and you put your faith in action adventure movies and science fiction. If that makes you uncomfortable, then I'm sorry.
Did you guys see the move Time Machine? Human existence could change as we know it if we are forced to adapt to changes in our environment(extreme hot, extreme cold, move to underground). Mutated versions of humans could take out the ones that didn't adapt.
“For thousands of years, people have wondered about the universe. Did it stretch out forever or was there a limit? And where did it all come from? Did the universe have a beginning, a moment of creation? Or had the universe existed forever? The debate between these two views raged for centuries without reaching any conclusions. Personally, I’m sure that the universe began with a hot Big Bang. But will it go on forever? If not, how will it end? I’m much less certain about that. The expansion of the universe spreads everything out, but gravity tries to pull it all back together again. Our destiny depends on which force will win.” —STEPHEN HAWKING This guy knows his poo. It's probably not EXACTLY the answer you were looking but food for thought!
I doubt it will. I suspect by the end of this century we will be inhabiting another planet [likely mars] perhaps even exploring beyond. that being the case. . . simply distance would make the ONCE AND FOR ALL human demise harder to accomplish [so you blew up the earth . .the Martian humans will live on] Rocket River I'm an optimist
Lmao. I'm not a Christian, but I really don't find Revelation to be any less probable than an alien extermination. I can't tell if you're joking or serious. You may have forgotten to include the possibility that Cobra finally defeats G.I. Joe and poisons the world with thousands of balloons filled with cyanide.
Juan, just curious, if you're not a Christian, why do you have such extensive knowledge of the Bible?
The world will end the moment my last breath excapes my lungs. for when Ai die the world dies with me. your world may continue on, but i am pretty sure that in 50+ years the world will. as far as humanity. well I would optimisticly say humanity will fina a way to become extra planetary before we destroy earth. and then extra solar by the time the sun goes nova. so I actually can see humanity lasting many many milenia in some form or other. we could be consumerd by a super massive black whole in the center of the milky way. but again we may be able to get into other galexies. who ever knows. i think we are resourcefull enough that we will be around to f-up thousands of perfectly good planets. PEACE
i dont quite understand your point are you saying that a massive meteorite slamming into the earth i s nothing but fiction but the dead rising from the graves and giant trumphets in the sky is based in reality? nevertheless, why would your faith cause me to be uncomfortable? what you believe has no effect on my life Juan: I was being serious, I was just brain storming of realistic things that would cause the entire human population to become extint I might add d. worldwide plague that spreads rapidly that we have no defense/cure for e. massive environmental change occuring rapidly (this goes with the meteorite theory)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO K --- that is some weird/scary cult like stuff to be teaching "followers".
See man thats what's dangerous about taking parts of the bible out of context or without researching them. That is the symbolic language that the apocolyptic writers of the time were using. Each symbol meant something completely different to the people of the time, and when we read it as symbols, we comlpletely misunderstand it.
I think our species will come to an end due to overpopulation combined with the exhausting our natural resources. Someone once told me that bacteria in a petri dish will populate at exponential rates, but when the food runs out they all die at once.
over population IS a major concern I read somewhere once (forgive if my years and numbers are wrong but I think the general idea is correct) that it took until 1800's for the world population to reach 1 billion, but 1940 it hit 2 billion, by 1960 it hit 3 billion, 1975 4 billion by 1985 5 billion something like that..just an expotentionally large increase
My wife is a Christian. That and I like to read about and discuss theology -- it's a way to pretend I'm still in college.
