So, you want to make a movie about the apocalypse. Why not? Seems like everything’s on fire these days, so it’s definitely de rigueur<\/em>. And, it must be pretty simple to make a movie about the end of the world, right? I mean, you just . . . end the world<\/em>, don’t you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n While I’ll admit that movie would entertain me<\/em>, it doesn’t quite do the genre justice. The end of the world is a bit more nuanced than that. Eschatology (mysticism about the world’s end) is very, very<\/em> old. Our most ancient narratives are about the beginning and the ending of the world. The alpha and the omega. The lifespan of the universe itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And where have fourteen billion years of universal evolution gotten us? What effects have the vastness of the cosmos and the infinitude of time had on what we think the end times will be like?<\/p>\n\n\n\n