Happy Atheist Forum

Was thinking about this today wanted to get your opinion on it.  If Earth were to get hit by a meteor wiping us all out.  I would guess if there already isn't life somewhere in the universe it might occur again through evolution.  Looking at it through a religious perspective though, I would have to think that the Universe would just disappear if the human species were to be wiped out.  After all it would have been created just for me, and the Universe could not go on without us since we are so very special     I was just wondering what people think about this.

Well, I suppose it all depends.  There may be a God who created the universe just for you and reality ends with you (maybe you'll never die; a means to become immortal is developed in your lifetime, you're put into stasis, there's an "afterlife" and the universe never ends because you never do), there may be a God who created the universe just for us and then decides to wipe us out either through direct intervention (sending the rock our way) or through inaction (lets the rock that was already headed our way hit us) and then he ends the universe as its purpose for existing is removed, there may be a God who lets us be destroyed but lets the universe run infinitely onward as if it were a fan without air to push, there may be no deities but our awareness may be singular and required (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle#Variants), and so on.   There's a LOT of variations, and I don't have the mental fortitude to go into such depth in the laid back lounge.   :lol: