>>I am not a doom and gloomer either. I would like to believe in a benificent God, although I don't happen to.
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>When it comes to Earth, I'm more of a Gaia believer, though in an un-Lovelockian way; I feel that the earth will right itself eventually.

It surely will. The only question is whether there'll be life on it, and what sort of life would that be.