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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Russell Blackford; Preface; 1. Looking Forward to the Future; The Most Important Conversation of Our Age; Big-Picture Hazards: Definitions; Causes of Big-Picture Hazards; Speculation and Predictability; 2. Fire and Ice; The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking; When Hell Freezes Over; With God on Our Side; Close Calls and Near Misses; Duck and Cover; 3. Bugs; Pandemonium; A Dual Etiology: Turning Biology against Itself; Menacing Mistakes; 4. Manufacturing Molecules; A Stairway to Heaven; Manufacturing Problems; Ecology Eaters |
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5. Our Children Might Kill UsKiller Computers; Flavors of Brilliance; A Core Distinction; Mindware on Wetware; Steal, Copy, Invent; Suicide by Parricide; 6. Our Parents Might Kill Us; Sentient Simulants; So Many Ways to Die; 7. Dinosaurs and Dodos; Pruning the Tree of Life; The Holocene Extinction Event; Not on My Planet (NOMPism); 8. Warming Up to Extinction; Global Warming Is the Climate's Change; Positive Feedback Is Unwelcome; 9. Caldera and Comets; A Meteorological Frankenstein; Supervolcanism; The Impact of an Impactor; 10. Monsters; Unknown Unknowns; Varieties of the Unknowable |
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God Created the Devil11. The Really Big Picture; The Sun's Future Is Bright; In with a Bang, Out with a Whimper; 12. The Power of Prophecy; The Other Branch of Eschatology; Abraham's Bosom and the Lake of Fire; The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful; 13. Guns, God, and Armageddon; The Clash of Eschatologies; What Would Jesus Do?; Don't Shoot the Messenger; Same Page, Different Holy Book; 14. Proaction and Precaution; Numbers and Probabilities; Two Hypotheses about the Existential Threat; Strategies for Survival; Top Priorities; The End Is Here; Acknowledgments |
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Appendix 1: Alternative Risk TypologiesAppendix 2: The Story of Zoroastrianism; Thus Spoke Zoroaster; The Beginning and End of Time (Literally); Appendix 3: Religion without God; Appendix 4: Thinking Clearly about the Big Picture; A Fundamental Difference; What Kinds of Things Are True?; But What Makes It True?; How Do Beliefs Fit into This Picture?; When Should One Believe Something?; Some Qualifications; Knowledge and Faith; About the Author |
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Subject |
End of the world.
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Eschatology.
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Religion and science.
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Religion and Science
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End of the world
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Eschatology
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Religion and science
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Genre/Form |
Science & Technology
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Nature
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Religion & Spirituality
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Electronic book
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Author |
Blackford, Russell
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LC no. |
2015027511 |
ISBN |
9781634310413 |
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1634310411 |
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9781634310420 |
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163431042X |
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