Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Will there be a doomsday?“, Leave a Reply below!
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Uh. It’s possible. Mass extinction on Earth has occurred before; why not again?
Instead of a pointillist “Doomsday” -such a well bounded construct-let us instead think of a general diffused condition: “Doomsday-i-ness” that would be spread out in time and space.
Since 1976 or so, I would say America has entered a state of Doomsday-i-ness that seems never-ending.
Indeed, if there is a stop point, “Doomsday”, it will seem anti-climactic in contrast.
But there is not likely to be such a stop point. One of Nature’s hidden laws is the NEMT Principle, No Ending Muddle Through. A kind of universal mediocrity principle that binds even leptons and quarks to a trudging mediocre existence…forever. Doomday-i-ness is the emergent property of the sum total of agglomerated subatomic mediocrities. QED!
Some billions of years hence, the sun will eventually balloon into a red supergiant and engulf the earth. Other than that particular kind of doomsday, no, there’s no reason to believe that there will ever be a doomsday as described in misc religious texts.
I can’t imagine it’ll be fun when our sun goes supernova in billions of years.
The latest in a long line of predictions calls for all business to stop on May 21, 2011. Will be curious to see how they handle the opening of the markets the next day.. countdown to back pedaling is more like it.
That is going to be a fucking Great day!!!!
The sun will go out a long long time from now. A meteor may hit. Who knows? Not too worried about it, it’s all either a distant event we may escape or a possibility we can avoid. Doom for our planet won’t be doom for us if we colonize another world.Like say Mars and the Moon. Maybe even Europa and others as well.
Well personally, I think that someday, this planet WILL be destroyed by SOMETHING. However, I strongly doubt it will happen in any of our lifetimes or the lifetimes of anyone we will ever know. But it is possible that something could hit the earth right as I post this and kill us all. We can never be sure of anything until it happens. Also, by the time it happens, for all we know we could already be colonizing other universes so if something happens to earth, it may not be the end of ALL of us.
If you wish? Do you need a doomsday reality? For some sadly the answer is yes!
ya. i call it the day my wife gets pregnant
I think that contact with another life form, will be our ultimate demise. Hopefully, they’ll accept my collectible action figures (Mint Condition(contact if interested)) as a source of currency. Maybe even bottle caps like fallout. But we will be attacked by said aliens, and be enslaved.
The Scriptures tell us that there is a day coming. But the day and the Hour no man knows. Not even the Son of God, but only God Himself knows that day.
That day will be a normal everyday occurance and then out of no where, the Heavens will be rolled back like a scroll and Christ will return for those who are living for Him.
First the Dead in Christ will rise and then those who are still alive.
That will be the end of life as we know it on this planet.
There will be judgement. God will choose who gets to spend eternity with Him and who does not.
Those who do not will burn in the Lake of Fire that was intended for the Devil and the fallen angels.
I don’t claim to know the answers except for one. Jesus is real. God is real. And the life we live today will decide the eternity we live tomorrow.
Whether doomsday as you call it comes first or you die first; either way isn’t going to matter. Just how you lived your life. Did you include God in it? Did you include His Son in it? It will matter to God if you included His Son. After all His Son came here and lived a human life and then gave His life in our place.
Remember
How you live your life today, will decide your eternity tomorrow.