The End of Times: Do Scientists and Fundamentalists Concur?

Clay Farris Naff
Huffington Post

You might think that scientists and Evangelicals have nothing in common. But you’d be wrong. Large numbers of both agree on one thing: the end is near.

A few years back, Sir Martin Rees, Britain’s Royal Astronomer, published a book titled Our Final Century, in which he put the odds of human survival through this century at no better than 50-50. Now, biologist Frank Fenner, who played a key role in ending the scourge of smallpox, says the end is certain.

Surveying the carnage humanity has inflicted on the ecosphere, the 95-year-old Australian scientist says nothing can change our fate now. “It’s an irreversible situation,” he’s quoted as telling the press. “I think it’s too late.”

Many of the best-informed scientists agree that we have left it too late to prevent anthropogenic climate change from bringing on a global catastrophe. Whether this results in actual extinction or merely the ruin of civilization is a matter they are still debating.

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