Conclusions: After 74 years of pondering, researching and re-thinking

Conclusions is focussed on the big questions that have confronted Homo sapiens since time un-remembered. What can we know? Why are we here? Have we reason to conclude that any one of our many religious stories is actually a revealed story? Where are we going? How might we get there? How can we be happy? With more recent developments, we now need to ask: Does Homo sapiens have a future? These great questions about human life are the urgent concern of each one of us. To secure our future, the human family will need to form a consensus on some important issues. This work attempts to consider seventeen such questions objectively presenting an argument in each case to formulate the most reasonable conclusion. Conclusions has been inspired by the claim of the renowned author Yuval Harari: "In the early twenty-first century the train of progress is again pulling out of the station - and this will be the last train ever to leave the station called Homo sapiens. Those who ride the train of progress will acquire divine abilities of creation and destruction, while those left behind will face extinction." Homo Deus, page 319.