Choose Your Own Doomsday: Select from These Alarming Options, Scientists Say

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In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called "The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, redefining evolutionary code." Source
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When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

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Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Source
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