In a billion years, will anything that the human race will do, or have done matter?

Question

The sun will burn out in about 5 billion years

Answer 1

This question is based on the premise that there is a purpose beyond man's life. That life is not an end in of itself. That the pursuit of one's happiness is not purpose enough. And that I do not and cannot accept. Life is an end in of itself. There is no overarching "plan" from some divine or supernatural being that one must seek. There is none. But while that may bring you sadness, I see great freedom in that fact. Humans will prosper and thrive as long as we are free to think and reason.

Answer 2

The mere fact that we will have existed will be a significant event. Will we have changed the course of the universe? Yes, no matter how insignificant we might seem in the great scheme of things even an "insignificant" influence magnified through the lens of a billion years will have significant consequences. So, long after our sun has burned itself out, long after this earth is reduced to a cinder wandering through a cold and dark sky, we will have been! And that will have made a difference, even thought the universe might be completely ignorant of our existence.

Answer 3

No, because in a billion years there will not be a human race. Jesus is coming soon, and he will take all of the bekievers to Heaven with him. After the Battle of Armagedeon the world that we live on now will be destroyed and a new heaven and new earth will be created. And He will reign on the new earth for eternity. And all of the believers will be there too.

Answer 4

I am sure it will. This planet has 3.3 billion years left before our sun matures and grows large enough to swallow the first three planets. That is if the earth makes it that long. We will be out in the universe by then either exploring peacefully or conquering and piliging. Either way it will be new to what we are now.

Answer 5

Will do? Absolutely! Have done? Only for the purpose of seeing it and seeing the result and using that knowledge to not repeat mistakes and allow for us to find better ways of doing things. The past is relevent to the future in that and that alone! After all, if you touch a hot coal and get burned and it hurts, are you really gonna try it again? I seriously doubt it! The pain alone is not worth it. Next time you will figure out another way to accomplish the same goal without hurting yourself.

Answer 6

I doubt the world will be around that long. With the ozone layer depleting, natural resources depleting, wars, AIDS, west nile, Avian flu, nucleur warheads, and man's own spiritual void, I feel the world will cease to exist several dozen generations into the future, at the max. No way near the billion mark!

Answer 7

Everything that the human race has done has mattered and has affected our current perception of things. It is very unlikely that no one in the future will be affected by what the human race is doing today, has done before, and will do in the future. We will either directly influence or indirectly influence the future somehow.

Answer 8

absolutely not. The sun will have burned itself out by then, and the Earth and everything on it will be no more.. this of course won't get a chance to occur because the human race will have exterminated itself by pollution or mass genocide by then!

Answer 9

What we do now doesn't even matter so I don't think it will matter more in a billion years. We are tiny specks on a tiny speck somewhere in a giant (to us but maybe not others) universe. We could disappear tomorrow and I don't think anyone would care.

Answer 10

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