Uh, a million years isn't that long in evolutionary time.
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How do you imagine the world millions of years from now?
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  (April 14, 2018 at 3:02 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Uh, a million years isn't that long in evolutionary time. It's an enormous amount of technological time though. Look how much advancement there has been in the last 100 years. We're talking a period of time 10,000 times that.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein  (April 13, 2018 at 11:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: But there will be some christard douche walking around with a sign saying "jesus is coming any day now." While calculating prophecies in the New Intergalactic Version of the Bible.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers. Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.  RE: How do you imagine the world millions of years from now?
April 14, 2018 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2018 at 6:49 pm by vulcanlogician.)
(April 14, 2018 at 3:02 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Uh, a million years isn't that long in evolutionary time. True enough, but it only took 2 million years for homo erectus to evolve into sapiens. That's a significant change, and it took place in a relatively static environment: Earth. Add to that the fact that future evolutionary changes might be adaptations to an extraplanetary environment, like a Martian space colony, and the process may occur faster. It's reasonable to expect some significant changes in the appearance of our ancestors if they evolve to adapt to, say, the gravity on Mars. 
I imagined people will be more enlightened than we are right now, though likely still having problems. And if christianity will still being around, people will still be saying the world is going to end in their lifetimes because of all the evils happening.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  RE: How do you imagine the world millions of years from now?
April 14, 2018 at 6:36 pm
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What I think is that very soon US will withdraw into isolationism, abandon all technology, education and just devote to waiting for second coming of Jesus. That will last for the next million years upon which people will not only wait for Jesus but Kirk Cameron and Ray Cumfart to return as well. Then all of a sudden a flying French croissant spaceship that is gushing cigarette smoke and smell of garlic will land in the face of stunned people in New York that will not be able to stop to wonder of the technological progress that has been going on and people will decide to abandon isolationism and turn toward technological progress.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Alderaan, post Death Star.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" 
Go forward a couple million years and there will be no humans nor any evolved decedents of humans on this planet. There will likely still be life. Probably lots of it. The planet seems amazingly resilient that way. But people? Nope. We're not going to stop fucking up until we're gone. Every last one of us. We're human, we fuck shit up, its what we do.
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