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Author Torres, Phil

Title End : What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse
Published New York : Pitchstone Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents 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
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
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject End of the world.
Eschatology.
Religion and science.
Religion and Science
End of the world
Eschatology
Religion and science
Genre/Form Science & Technology
Nature
Religion & Spirituality
Form Electronic book
Author Blackford, Russell
LC no. 2015027511
ISBN 9781634310413
1634310411
9781634310420
163431042X