“The end is always nigh in the human mind”

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Michael Shermer, author of The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (2011), wrote a June 7, 2011, column in New Scientist explaining that for both religious and secular people, apocalyptic thinking is spurred by a desire to bring order to the randomness of events.

Website http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028156.300-the-end-is-always-nigh-in-the-human-mind.html#.UcIQNEC1GSo
Author Michael Shermer
Publication New Scientist
Date 06/07/2011
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