2.6 Science and the end of the world

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2.6 Science and the end of the world

The end of the world

• Paragraph 6

Study goals

• In this lesson you explore theories about the end of the world
• In this lesson you will evaluate whether the end of the world is caused by humans

Recap

• What is the scopes trial?
• What is creation science?
• Who was Darwin?

2012 phenomenon

• Cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012
  
• The end of the Mayan calander

Google

John Leslie (1996)

• Pollution ends all life
• Earth goes out of the orbit of the sun
• A comet hits the planet

Human involvement

• Oppenheimer: ''I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds''

Exercises

• 1, 2, 3 and 4