The human race will definatively die out at some point in time and for at least one of the following reasons:
1) We would eventually outgrow our own existance. Humans would replace ourselves with something better.
2) We would naturally evolve into another species (a variation of #1 as #1 assumes the same thing, technologically induced)
3) We wipe ourselves out (nukes, runaway greenhouse effect from global warming, antimatter explosion that obliterates the crust of the earth, - take your pick)
4) Natural death, such as by gamma-ray burst, a super-solar flare, etc - take your pick.
It's only a matter of time before one of the above things happen, though I'm sure if 1 or 2 were true, we'd have genetic archives of ourselves as we originally were just because that's how humans roll.
1) We would eventually outgrow our own existance. Humans would replace ourselves with something better.
2) We would naturally evolve into another species (a variation of #1 as #1 assumes the same thing, technologically induced)
3) We wipe ourselves out (nukes, runaway greenhouse effect from global warming, antimatter explosion that obliterates the crust of the earth, - take your pick)
4) Natural death, such as by gamma-ray burst, a super-solar flare, etc - take your pick.
It's only a matter of time before one of the above things happen, though I'm sure if 1 or 2 were true, we'd have genetic archives of ourselves as we originally were just because that's how humans roll.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
