(May 1, 2015 at 5:26 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(May 1, 2015 at 4:55 pm)AdamLOV Wrote: A skeptic answer to such issues would be to highlight the impending doom lying in wait for all these sophists.
Please do. I'm sure we'd all like to know about this doom, especially if it's impending.
Among countless studies, I would mention the following recent prognosis of global societal collapse:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...0914000615
Apocalyptic thought, far from being the preserve of religious fanatics, seems to pervade the sciences, because the world we live in really is ending.
On a more holistic scale, one could mention the laws of thermodynamics. Negentropic systems have an inescapable tendency to entropy. In the long term, doom is the only existent, because entropy trumps negentropy. These two scientific facts would constitute proofs of impending doom (i.e. an extinction that is threateningly close, in terms of geological time).