Answer any and all of the questions above.

1. Do you believe life (human) on Earth will end?

2. Do you have a religious belief in the Apocalypse? (Do you believe in an Antichrist and such?)

3. Do you believe that an end is coming soon?

4. What will end life (again, human) on Earth?



Personally:

1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. No clue.
4. God.

So there, what do you believe?

1. There can be no beginning without an end, and since we know there was a beginning for humans, there must be an end.
2. Not allowed on the forum.
3. No, science doesn't predict the end of Earth for another [about] 5 billion years. Now, of course, humans will cease to exist long before that. I believe that humans will not all die out, but will evolve into a higher, non-human lifeform within the next few million years.
4. Like I said, Evolution will end human life.

1. Yes
2. No
3. Yes
4. US republican-controlled government in conjunction with religious fanatics.

EDIT: I thought topics like this were not permitted?

As long as there is no religion involved, we can talk about The End. As such, point 1, 3, & 4 are acceptable (there's some major controversy with them, though). Point 2, however, is right out the window.

From a moderator's point of view the forum does not stop you saying whether you have a religion or not, so people are free to answer yes or no to the question. What they cannot do is debate the issue (i.e argue with others).

But surely everyone, from the most fundamental creationist Christian to the most dyed-in-the-wool atheist. accepts that there was a point in the past where the world did not exist and there will be a point in the future where it doesn't again and the same applies to human life. Whether human life will die out, whether it will move to other habitable planets or whether it will evolve into another life form is pure speculation. Any of them is theoretically possible.

Feel free to voice opinions but don't argue with the beliefs of others in the thread.

That's what I was thinking: yes or no is fine, as it doesn't include discussion or debate of religion.

I hope this doesn't turn into a debate later on...

Simular:
1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Probably (within 200yrs but I'm OK either way)
4. God.

& NO I don't want to urgue religion here.

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No Idea
4. God

1 yes
2 yes, I'm a Muslim (no argument in that)
3 No Idea, and not my place to say
4 God, indirectly, through mortal hands

Hope this doesn't break any forum rules

Uhm , isn't religious debates banned from this forum?

1. Do you believe life (human) on Earth will end?
You joking!? We will blow ourself from earth with some Atom bombs in some years.... <_<

2. Do you have a religious belief in the Apocalypse? (Do you believe in an Antichrist and such?)
No, atheist

3. Do you believe that an end is coming soon?
I hope not...

4. What will end life (again, human) on Earth?
Human.

1. Yes- the sun will go supernova in about 4 or 5 million years- and will expand to where Mars is now (before contracting to become a red giant)- and earth will evaporate- and thus all life "on" earth will definitely end. I was thinking on the lines of shipping hydrogen to the sun to keep it going a while longer- but that is a bit premature at this point in time.

2. Not sure about this question- as am unfamiliar with the terms used.

3. "The end" is human death, and in cosmic terms it is coming pretty soon...

4. See answer to 1.

That would be 4 or 5 billion years, and our sun doesn't have enough mass to become a super nova. Instead, it will enter the red giant stage. Also, it will only expand out to Earth's orbit. Shipping hydrogen to the sun? That's completely unrealistic. For one, we'd need to ship trillions of tons of hydrogen every day. We could never possibly find that much hydrogen, build a ship to contain that much hydrogen, or build a ship to resist the sun's temperature long enough to get within rage where the sun's gravity will engulf the hydrogen.

Thank you for the correction (i.e. billion and not million) - and I am sorry to hear that there won't be a supernova (love fireworks)

About shipping hydrogen to the sun- well that was truly said in jest - but I DO believe that if humans survive for another few billion years they will evolve enough to figure out how to create suns- let alone save ours- possibly using methods to transfer matter directly to the sun from elsewhere (possibly using these "paths" that I think may already exist in the universe that will allow faster than light travel), if required- would probably not need a disintegrating planet like earth anymore.

Thank you also for the definition of apocalypse- had a vague idea that it meant something like the end of everything. I like the idea of "lifting of the veil". The question (no.2) then basically asks whether one believes in God/afterlife- as nearly everyone who believes in one of the major religions will believe that the things as they are now will end and the veil will lift

Fortunately I still do not have an opinion on this

Also am pretty ashamed that I never looked up the meaning of the word earlier- having seen (and enjoyed) "Apocalypse Now" about 20 years ago

Earth will be too hot to be inhabitable in about 900 million years, so we won't see the end of the sun anyways.

Like I said, Earth will be uninhabitable in about 900 million years. By then we'd have colonised other planets though...Anyways, I don't think humans will even survive that long. 900 million years is a long time. By then, the creature that evolves from humans will have most likely evolved, and maybe that would have evolved, too. I believe that in a few hundred years, humans will have colonised planets in other solar systems. Then, millions of years after that, those humans will have evolved. Seeing as how they're on different planets, they'd branch off into different evolutions based upon the planet they're on. The new descendants of humans will continue expanding and eventually form a Galactic Government, probably some sort of Democratic Republic with robotic representatives and leaders. Robots can't fall to corruption...They may take drastic measures but not corruption. As long as they follow the three rules of robotics, everything will be fine...By then, humans will be ancient history.

As for those "paths," I think you are referring to wormholes.

1) I agree- the sun will probably collapse into a red giant in a few billion years.
2) No, I am in no way religious.
3) See answer to question 1- a few billion years, depending on whether what we will evolve into could be classed as human or not.
4) See answer to question 1 again.

Yes- wormholes are the thingy (or something very similar)- though I was thinking about a reference from a religious scripture when I mentioned these "paths" in space

To answer the four questions:
1. Yes, but it all depends upon what you believe, whether you're a scientist who strictly uses facts and does not want to believe in religion, or are a Catholic priest and are pious in your beliefs.

2. Yes, I'm religious (Catholic to be precise), and yes I do believe that there is or will be an Antichrist (the phrase "believe in the Antichrist" doesn't sound good to me, since I don't worship what's evil). I believe the Devil is a real entity (as is God), but I'm not a raging fanatic like some heathens who claim they believe and either a)want everyone to listen to their preaching and "convert or else", or b)want nothing to do with those that don't believe or believe in something else.

3. Not soon (as in a few years), but eventually, events will be set in motion that may signify the "End of Days".

4. I don't think people fully understand what the "Apocalypse" really means or what will happen during that time. I'm not claiming I know everything, but it is not for us (mankind) to speculate ANYTHING WHATSOEVER about the "Apocalypse". It is something that simply cannot be predicted. So how it all ends (and this is my own personal belief) is really up to the Almighty to decide.

1. Do you believe life (human) on Earth will end?

Earth will inevitably come to an end so we can't stay here forever. Long before any cosmic events render this planet inhabitable or evolution forever alters our human g-nome we will have used up all of the resources available and Earth will look much like Mars. That is if we can dodge earth's natural cycles of heat and cold. Given the grand scale of earths age it is expectantly arrogant of man to think he can predict what is normal by studying the past 200 years. Earth's orbit around the sun while you know is elliptical, it is also variable as is the tilt on it's axis. Neither of these paths is constant and Earth tends to fade in and out on a regular basis. Our scientists speculate what those patterns are but are unsure as to the exact time, which is why they can not predict the event. Variable#1-The Earth wobbles on its axis about every 3500 to 5000 years and when this happens the northern hemisphere leans away from the sun. Variable#2-The earths orbit around the sun has a center shift once every 7500-10000 years and when this happens, two opposing points in the orbit change distance from the sun, one closer and one farther. When these two variables coincide with each other the event will occur. With these figures science has narrowed the occurrence down to 30,000-50,000 years apart. Knowing the last occurrence was just over 30,000 years ago, I would say we are due any time in the next 20,000 years. Although no matter how hard we try to kill ourselves, someone will survive, so i don't think an ice age will do us in either. Odds are we will not succumb to the same fate as the dinosaurs either, because I think we can survive nuclear winter caused by an enormous meteorite or by nuclear fallout, with all our current technologies, but they will be lost in the process and mankind will just have to start from scratch. I theorize that this has happened before and would explain the advanced knowledge of ancient cultures. It takes the very technology to retain the knowledge of itself and pass it on. However, since there are no fossil records suggesting we started over here, then it is most likely we started over while colonizing this planet. If we are lucky we will successfully repeat the cycle some where else and continue on to the next phase of evolution.

2. Do you have a religious belief in the Apocalypse? (Do you believe in an Antichrist and such?)

Do I believe in a god as described by any religion? No. Am I An Atheist? No. While I do believe in a singular supreme being (someone had to write the code for DNA), I do not think he exists inside of our universe. If he did then he would have been created with it and therefor, even if he created man, he still would not be the one true god. Modern religion in all of it's incarnations, though some purer than others, all root back to about the same time. A time when a large group of scholars and historians all collaborated on the greatest story ever told. It was a great idea to give a lost and lonely mankind a sense of purpose and worth. The tyrants of that time did their best to stop it, but man being decent as a whole naturally embraced the love thy neighbor philosophy of all major religions. But evil always finds a way to balance the scale and these same tyrants that fought to stop religion now embraced it as an alternative method of controlling the masses. More men have died in the name of god and their religion than all other wars, disease, natural disasters, and yes even natural death combined. This has steadily declined over the past 400-500 years. The United States was formed by individuals who were trying to escape what was left of this tyranny and the very reason we have a separation of church and state is to prevent this type of control. However evil has found a way to balance the scale once more and can be seen in every facet of our government. Yours too, cause it doesn't matter where you live someone is controlling your thoughts and actions on some level. But this too is on a decline and provided we continue to police ourselves and snuff out any threats to the goal, I can see a world united in as little as 7-10 generations. Mankind needs to put aside all segregations of society and allow the mixing pot to overflow with the bastard mutts of our unified tomorrow. Don't try to preserve your culture's bloodline by marring within your race, instead donate it to the giant gene pool cocktail that we all need to take that next step toward evolution and unity. Marry outside your race(statistically, your children will be smarter) and outside your religion too if possible(2 out of 5 children of mixed religion marriages don't follow either of their parents faith). Once we are rid of religion we will be free of war and can concentrate on the stars, where our one and only hope for survival lies.

3. Do you believe that an end is coming soon?

An end? Yes. The end? No. Mankind will persevere one way or another.(see #1)

4. What will end life (again, human) on Earth?

see #1

1. Life on Earth will end. But that doesn't mean life on other universes in cosmos will. I don't really know about other universes, if they have suns or not. We, after a few billion years, might have very high and advance technology to probably combat what possible natural catastrophies will come. It's not just the sun that might cause human extinction, it might also be like a great plague.. or the earth cracks in two from underneath.. or something. Also, if that doesn't happen, our technology level will be so advance that we might be able to teleport into another universe to avoid cataclysm.

It is impossible to live in a very small peace of what god created. You can go with a spaceship 24/7 for a billion years and still not even see the smallest part of this great wide universe. Anyways, like I said, I do beleive life will end here. Probably a huge meteorite will strike the earth or something and the planet will explode. Or it might also be caused by us, global warming, pollution and such.

The future is unpredictable. There are many ways for life to end here.

2. No, I do not. For as long as I live, I shall be Orthodox. Antichrist is something.. that I truly detest.

3. The end on earth. There could be many other races out there, probably way more advanced than us. The end here will come, not the total end of everything.

4. Possibilities are uncountable. See 1

1. yes
2. nope, we'll be blowing ourselves up by the time he gets here
3. -no comment-
4. god

Yes. Given an infinite amount of time, the chance of catastrophic asteroid/comet impact approaches 100%. Given a very long, but very definitely finite, amount of time, the sun will eventually expand and consume the earth. Even if we move off the Earth to other planets/solar systems/etc, human life on Earth will eventually come to an end. In fact, human life itself will inevitably come to an end, as a consequence of fundamental laws of physics. If the universe does not expand infinitely and eventually collapses, the fate of humanity is pretty obvious. If the universe does continue to expand, entropy wins, and life becomes impossible in the heat-death of the universe.

In summary: physics always wins. We might live a very long time, beyond the comprehension of any (current) human mind, but eventually it all ends.



No. I am not an idiot. Primitive fairy tales originating in a lack of understanding of the universe do not impress me, and religion's (along with astrology, countless "psychics", etc) long history of predicting the impending apocalypse doesn't exactly help. People have been claiming the universe is going to end within their lifetimes for all of written history, and I doubt the practice started just because we figured out how to write down our nonsense. However, despite thousands of years of impending apocalypses, here I am, very much alive.



No. Thanks to the wonders of modern astronomy and physics, we can be fairly sure that a total extinction level impact is not in our immediate future. All of the present threats for the forseeable future are inadequate to end all human life. While nuclear war, collapse of civilization due to lack of oil, global warming, etc, are all frightening threats, humans are much harder to kill than most people think. Sure, we might completely wreck our advanced civilization and descend into a new dark age that would make all of us prefer to be dead, but there will still be humans.



See points #1 and #3 above. Either catastrophic comet/asteroid impact, or the eventual death of the sun. Any lesser disaster will just kill a lot of people and make life really suck for the survivors, but will not do the job of total extinction.

1. It's gotta end sometime!

2. Yup, but in more of a whole, earth is too corrupt so whatever force created the univerese just goes zap!

3. If humans bring it on themselves.

4. Well if everyone is a good person (0.0000000001% chance) then it could end with the death of our sun, who knows!?

1. To be realistic yes, eventually human life will cease to exsist, while other life on earth still remains. Whether it be Cockroaches from nuclear fallout, or animals immune to the superbug, we will destroy ourselves, and probably cause another mass extinction on the earth. anytime soon? Who knows could be 10,999 years from now, could be by the time OBAMA gets elected. ( you know its gonna happen.) Also we are gonna keep messing the atmosphere up, and without that well, nothing lives.

2. My religion doesnt dictate Apocolypse or Armaggeddon. But it does dictate extreme oppisites and with life there is death, and a beginning and an end.

3. as stated above, it could come anytime, or not at all. who knows?

4. Human life on earth will end in one of 2 ways and 2 ways only, a large enough astroid hits the earth and causes and ETE (* end time event ) or a bug wipes us out. They already have contigents in place for a total nuclear war, that wont end human life, just kill billions. it is also possible that a supoer volcano like yellowstone spues out earths core and we become like mars, but still i belive there is life there also as i come from there.

Remeber, just my opinion.

1. It all depends on what "human" is. Eventually we are going to evolve to the point that we will likely be quite a bit different in both external and internal factors. Since I think that any beings that will eventually evolve from modern humans will still be "human", no.

2. You can't fool me into answering questions like that!
For shame.

3. Not for quite a while, really. What was it, 5 billion* years until the Sun goes Red Giant?

4. Well, by the time the Sun expands into a red glowing orb of death to loom obscenely close in the morning sky, Humans will hopefully have left the planet, effectively ending Human life on Earth.

*Am I the only one who finds the word "billion" almost comical? It sounds like something a child make up, similar to "jillion" and "gazillion".

Answer any and all of the questions above.

1. Do you believe life (human) on Earth will end?

2. Do you have a religious belief in the Apocalypse? (Do you believe in an Antichrist and such?)

3. Do you believe that an end is coming soon?

4. What will end life (again, human) on Earth?

1. yes.
2. open minded
3. no.
4. Apathy.

1- Probably, but not completely

2- I am atheist and i do not have any religious belief, but i don't dislike looking at religions in their philosophical meanings (whenever there are any)

3- There are many ignored threats that could cause heavy disasters in the next few years. Better be aware...

4 - War, pollution, water, waste of natural resources. I any case it will be something caused by few people against millions.

1. Do you believe life (human) on Earth will end?

2. Do you have a religious belief in the Apocalypse? (Do you believe in an Antichrist and such?)

3. Do you believe that an end is coming soon?

4. What will end life (again, human) on Earth?

1. It most certainly will not.
2. Yes, but not the traditional "Christian" view.
3. This answer goes way beyond a simple yes or no.
4. See #1.

Feel free to pm me, as getting into any detail about this on the forums is prohibited.

-T-

1. What has a start has also an end. That is a fact that cannot be proven to be false.

2. I'm not very religious person, so I don't believe in apocalypses described in any religion.

3. Not sure about that, but I think we'll live here still a long while.

4. Propably some natural coincident like asteroids.

HAHA funny topic yet one that could happen at any time, my favourite ones are......

1) F-OFF asteroid about to hit earth, government goes..."We don't have enough tax money to build a super missile to break it into fragments and another one if the first one fails", world goes splat.

2) Aztecs actually calculated/belived? that the world would end in 2012 by earthquakes, volcanoes and floods! What does everyone think of that one.

1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Quite possible.
4. Stupid People D:

Im pretty sure the religous stuff is not allowed, but anyways life on earth will end? no. humans might... probably will, but life as we know it will not end, think about it, a cockroach can survive an ice age, a nuclear war and survive for billions of years

1. Yes
2. No
3. No
4.Yes- when our sun eventually brcomes a red giant baking the earth to a cinder. Unless we as a race of combined peoples do it thru sheer stupidity and trying to force ways of life upon others that don't want them

1. Do you believe life (human) on Earth will end?

2. Do you have a religious belief in the Apocalypse? (Do you believe in an Antichrist and such?)

3. Do you believe that an end is coming soon?

4. What will end life (again, human) on Earth?
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1. Eventually
2. Nope
3. Nope, and Don't Care either way <-- Just me being slightly narrow minded
4. The Earth will be in the path of a massive meteorite, and all life is destroyed.

1. It's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of fact. As I'm sure has been said already, the sun will eventually die. The sun itself is not a big enough star to supernova, but it's death will still wipe out all life on earth, if not the earth itself.

2. Nope.

3. The end is always very close. There are several scenarios that could end all life on earth tomorrow. At the same time, humanity may survive for billions of years, eventually leaving the earth for a new planet.

4. Asteroids, roaming black holes, nuclear war, gamma ray bursts, death of the sun (see 1.)..It's really impossible to say.

1. well yeah
2. no
3. not for a while.
4. George Bush sending the world into a nuclear winter

1. All things must end at some time or another, we are just stupid enough to destroy ourselves(Global warming etc)

2. Yes, at some time my religion lets me understand that a false messiah is coming to pose as Christ. Don't know if that answers the question though.

3. Yeah, we might be gone in the next few centuries. (which is kinda short even though I won't live to see it)

4. We ourselves or the Reaping or the apocalypse. (Mail me if you don't know what the Reaping is, as I won't discuss religion in a forum)

^Global warming won't necessarily kill us all off, as there have been much worse global warmings in earth's past then what we would encounter, and life still survived. It would just most likely suck. A lot.

According to the news the place I live is going to be so deep underwater that only the tip of the nearby mountain, which is about 300 ft high, will be visible. Hows that for sucking.

Guess it's time to look for a place in Europe.

Yep

1. Do you believe life (human) on Earth will end?
I don't know if all human life on Earth will end. I am certain that my life on Earth will eventually end, yet certain that others' lives will continue on beyond my allotted time here, so I try to conduct myself so-as to leave the rock in a better condition than it was when I arrived on it.

2. Do you have a religious belief in the Apocalypse? (Do you believe in an Antichrist and such?)
I believe that there are people so desirous of some moment of shouting at their neighbors "HA!!! I WAS RIGHT AND YOU WERE WRONG!!!" that they would work towards fulfilling their chosen prophesy, either consciously or subconsiously.

3. Do you believe that an end is coming soon?
An end to what?

4. What will end life (again, human) on Earth?
Human life is likely to continue for a very, very, very long time, long past the point where our civilizations have descended back into an agglomeration of bronze & iron-age technologies, intermixed with very rare examples of higher tech. Given the assumption that there is not some sort of cataclysm (meteor or global nuclear war that would render the environment untenable), humans will continue to survive for millenia. I just imagine our species will return to dying much younger, again, with the loss of the many technologies that currently serve to extend our lifespans.

1. Without doubt - eventually.

2. Not exactly. I have a special way of thinking that imaginary things exist, they are simply not material. So, I don't believe but know that they exist, the question is in which way.

3. Right now really possible, but personally I don't think so. If something such as a nuclear was happens, then I believe it's going to be a loooong dying.

4. Unless happens some event with really small probability? Mankind, of course. One way or another.

They say the world will end in 2012 and thats just like 4 YEARS AWAY!!!!!!!!! I read it in History books and all!!! They say 2012 will change the world or it will end. But I don't know about an Antichrist.

That 2012 end of the world idea is really just stupid. The Aztec calendar ends on someday in December in the year 2012. The Aztecs were very advanced in their efforts with astronomy , and this leads some people to think that the calendar's end signifies the end of the world. However, Cortez burned most of the Aztecs' writings when he conquered them, so we don't have much info from them. We also don't know what the end of the calendar signifies, if anything. Let's not forget the fact that while they were advanced for their time period, we are more advanced now then we have ever been. If people thousands of years ago were able to predict that something would happen to end life on earth in 2012, we would have known of it by now.

This is now closed because it has drifted into a religious debate.

Buddah

If you want to discussion religion, it will not be here.