2006-06-12 06:32:43 · 21 answers · asked by nish_9494 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Yes, the question is- how and when will it happen? Will we blow each other up in a nuclear war? Will overpopulation lead to starvation, poverty, and lack of resources? Will disease wipe us out? Will an asteroid destroy us like it may have destroyed the dinosaurs? Who knows?
2006-06-12 06:37:50 · answer #1 · answered by Pete 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very probably, and not necessarily because we're good at actively killing each other. Evolutionary history shows that complex organisms become extinct because they have too many functions to adapt when a vicious change takes place. A pandemic might devastate humanity beyond hope of recovery, for example. Beyond that, there's the possibility/probability of a blunt physical trauma destroying life on earth as we know it ("some time in the next 10000 years, a comet's gonna wipe out all trace of man. I'm banking on it coming before my end-of-year exams" --TISM, "Greg! The Stop Sign!") which would certainly cause more and immediate problems than the slow creeping death of pandemic. Of course, as Dr. Who (and, on a more subtle note, Babylon 5) suggested, there is possibility that humans do survive beyond humanity and evolve into something else, somewhere else, such that humans as we know them become as extinct as neanderthals.
Check up on Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (I think that's the title) for a non-aggrandized selection of various ends to human existence.
2006-06-12 13:44:49 · answer #2 · answered by kiezkahse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything faces extinction eventually. Humans will either evolve into something else, devolve into a lower life form as the current evidence in society suggests or be completely obliterated. Whether the obliteration is from an internal or external source remains to be seen and the only way to know for sure is to wait and see.
2006-06-12 14:17:25 · answer #3 · answered by passion8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We breed to much to ever be completely wiped out. Unless, of course, an extremely fast acting virus kills everyone in the world in the space of a few years and even then there'll probably be one or two people left and they will probably be a pregnant or fertile woman and a virile man to carry on the human race.
2014-09-01 03:25:28 · answer #4 · answered by Skayda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are asking if humans will some day be gone from the Earth, yes. Soon after Jesus comes back for us, the world as we know it will end. Some of us will go on to our eternal lives serving God in Heaven. We will live that way for ever. Human life as we know it now will eventually cease to exist, but all humans have the chance of eternal life if they accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and receive God's forgiveness through Christ.
2006-06-12 13:36:16 · answer #5 · answered by cucumberlarry1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not if we keep breeding at the rate we are now. I hear we are over populated. And sex is too much fun to give up, so I think our species will be sticking around for a while.
2006-06-12 14:39:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes....all will be extinct one day.
2006-06-12 13:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by Charlies_Angel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course! At first we'll become rare, then endangered and at last extinct...
2006-06-12 13:50:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes- and all the signs are here- 1st it's bad grammar and the inability to form real sentences and then before you know we will be grunting like cavemen...
2006-06-12 13:37:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. All things must pass.
2006-06-12 13:35:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋