The Science and Beliefs That Shape End-of-the-World Predictions
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Everyone at some point must have woken up in the middle of the night and wondered how it would all end. Whether through old prophecies or present day films on a grand scale, people have always been intrigued by the idea of the end of the world or destruction. Interestingly, a fascinating paper titled Do Religious "Beliefs" Respond to Evidence? The Journal of Cognition and Culture explores how deeply rooted cognitive biases make us vulnerable to these doomsday narratives. Merging ancient anxieties with contemporary cosmological knowledge, we keep trying to decode the ultimate expiration date of our planet finding comfort in patterns.