How Will the World End?

Question

In fire? Ice? Some other horrible way? And what do you think will be the reason for this and how soon?

To those who might think the world will end in billions of years: do you seriously think the world will make it to that point? With nuclear weapons in hand and all...

Answer 1

It depends on how you view the world.

If you're thinking in regards of human existence, it'll probably end at our own hands.

If you're thinking in terms of life on earth, it'll probably end when the sun burns out. One of the neat things about our planet is that life always flourishes. Plants always grow back in places you wouldn't expect. But, they won't when the sun's gone

If you're thinking in terms of the dirtball we call earth being in existence, it'll exist until a black hole sucks it into oblivion

Answer 2

Read the Bible it will show and tell you how it wont end .This is a world with out end . The life on it now will be destroyed by many means but will be re newed. We, are not as far away from the finale times as some may think The bible prophecies are very accurate and true right up to today . Including the splitting of Jerusalem which we really don't want to be around to see what happens after. As far as billions or millions of yrs that's false.Israel became a nation in 1948 , and the bible said it would happen , we are now watching the skirmish over the most important city in the word Jerusalem . We are in the times as the bible states as in the days of Noah . So the rapture which many don't believe could happen today , that would leave 1007 yrs till a very complete change . But in the mean time I hope many come to Christ as there Saviour for with out Him you have nothing left no matter what you believe

Answer 3

The world will end in misery, great need and starvation. This will be caused by overpopulation of our planet brought about by scientific advances that make possible higher fertility, low mortality and longer life.

The same scientific and technological advances speed up industrial production, which decimate natural resources at unprecedented rates. Soon forests will be wiped out, oil exhausted, minerals finished. The environment is being polluted irreversibly - depletion of the ozone layer, carbon emmissions, pollution of water sources, etc.

Soon water will be undrinkable, temperatures unbearable, air unbreathable, radiation levels (uv rays due to ozone depletion) too high, crops grown in the poisoned soil inedible... in short the world will soon be inhabitable.

How long? It all depends on how rational and ready to change our governments and us as individuals are. Whether our priority is industrial, economic and consummer expansion for their own sakes or sustainability of human life on earth.

When the likes of America are ready to continue pumping billions of pollutants into the atmosphere and water systems in desregard of scientific findings simply because they don't want their economies to suffer, the end is in sight. When individuals are consumming large amounts of energy needlessly, e.g. insisting on personal transport instead of public transport, leaving equipment on (computers, fans, air conditioners, lights, etc) when not in use, thus contributing to carbon emmissions indirectly, our World is doomed.

On the other hand if we relise as nations that there are economies because there is human life and that the former serves the latter and not vice versa; if as individuals we learn to consume what we really need and not because fashion and the society we live in demands otherwise, we still have an opportunity to slow down the decay or possibly even halt it.

The end of the world may come even sooner, as a result of the above reasons, through wars for scarce natural resources well before the natural unsustainability threshold is reached.

Answer 4

Even a nuclear holocaust would not mean the end of the world, perhaps just the end of humans. Doubtlessly life has started over before on this planet. Most likely at some point we will be tossed back thousands of years, perhaps by war, perhaps by an environmental disaster, perhaps even by a cosmic event. But something will remain. The world and life on it will continue until our sun dies.

Answer 5

In about 5 billion years or so the Sun will run out of fuel. When this happens the core will collapse and the outer layer will be temporarily blown off and it will expand. This expansion will stop somewhere around the orbit of the Earth. Rather or not it engulfs the Earth, it will certainly be the end of the Earth as we know it. Then the Sun will shrink down and cool leaving whatever is left of the Solar System in the dark.

Answer 6

The physical world is a long way from ending. However, when world-shaking ideas cause sea change, a paradigm shift in the way people think individually and collectively, a new heaven and a new earth come into existence. The old ways of self-conceptualizing and understanding are eradicated and replaced by new revolutionary and broader understandings and self-conceptualization. New institutions and new ways of living are based on the foundations of the new idea.

We are undergoing such a seismic shift now in our self-conceptualization. Our self-conceptualization as nations whose interests have to protected at all costs is giving way to conceptualizing ourselves as one humanity, one planet, all of whose interests must be protected. As we are seeing, this is not going to be an easy transition. I could be short though wrenching painful because of the devastating technologies and the converging catastrophes of the things we're doing to our planet on so many fronts, failed economic systems, failed political systems, etc.

Answer 7

If by the world you mean the planet earth , then about 4-5 billion years time when the Sun goes Super Nova.

If you mean the world as we know it, human society etc, then quite a fair bit sooner. I'm running a book on it if your interested , just send the money to....

Answer 8

Fairly Soon.

The end will come as a result of the cup of evil becoming full.

A fiery end.

It will be similar to the time before the flood (Matthew 24:38-39).

How is the cup of evil getting full? Millions of unborn babies are being killed before they are born for the sake of convenience. In the US the slaughter has the blessing of the highest court in the land. Hundreds of toxic chemicals are allowed in supermarket foods because the FDA is staffed by people from the industries they are supposed to be regulating. Therapyies that could save millions from painful deaths caused by cancer and heart attack are demonized by a press and media that is bought and paid for by the Drug Industry. Even the so called fair and balanced media will not tell the truth about prescription drugs.

The word "sorceries" in Revelation 9:21 is the Greek pharmakeia, from which we get the word pharmacy. It is controlling people through drugs (including economic control through over pricing).

For these and other evils the world will end. It will be the end of man's rule of this planet. And the beginning of Christ's rule.

Answer 9

It's called the Revelation. That is when God comes for all his children and war breaks loose.I'm not gonna try to scare you though im not going to say the whole story. If you want know the rest read a bible and go to the Chapter of Revelations. On that you will know all about Judgement day.God comes for his children and The devil comes for the people who don't deserve to go to Heaven.It can happen at any time though.
I'm just a 12 yr old christian boy who loves to tell people about god! :D

Answer 10

Recent data shows that the core of the earth is cooling at an alarming rate. There are two prevalent theories about why core of the earth is still hot: one theory suggests that at the beginning, earth was created as the result of collisions in space that created a molten ball of magma which gradually cooled and since stone is a good insulator, the outer shell becamed solid while the inner core stayed hot and fluid from pressure and lack of espace of heat. The second hypothesis suggests that the reason why earth is losing its heat is because originally an asteroid containing a huge chunk of plutonium and uranium hit the earth in its molten stage and went directly to its centre and was trapped there. This centre then under pressure and heat, acted like a nuclear reaction producing massive nuclear explosions that kept the centre of the earth warm and boiling for millions of years now.

However, no matter what theory you accept, both theories believe that the inner reactor, or the inner molten core is cooling down. Estimates of 12,000 years to a million years are estimated time for earth's death. Once our planet cools, our inner mantle and core would solidify and magnetite and other magnetic elements would stope flowing , therefore the magnetic flux through earth's surface would cease to exist. Once the flux is gone, so will the earth's magnetic field and expose us all to solar radiation that would burn our oceans, kill our organisms, and excite molecules of our atmosphere causing it to be lost in space due to rapid collision.