Latest post in my blog on popular science:
127 Years of The War of the Worlds
https://populscience.blogspot.com/2025/10/127-years-of-war-of-worlds.html
Regards,
Manuel, you wrote:
“The image of the world presented by Wells in his popular essays has become a myth: In the beginning was emptiness and inanimate matter. Then, by an inconceivably small chance, life arose on our planet, and biological evolution took over, leading to the emergence of increasingly complex intelligent beings. Finally, man emerged, who is learning to master his environment. In the future, the continuation of this evolution will lead to the superman. But then the blind forces of Nature will come into play, and the final triumph belongs to them. The second law of thermodynamics will lead the cosmos to chaos and destruction, putting an end to those demigods who for some time possessed the Earth. This myth hides some flaws, mixed with elements of truth.”
Lewis also writes about this view of the future of the universe. But what are the “flaws” and “elements of truth” in this “myth”?
Dimitry
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Love will last forever.” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8)
Yes, I got this interpretation from C.S. Lewis: The funeral of a great myth" in Christian Reflections.
“In the beginning was emptiness and inanimate matter.” That’s not how we see it now. The Big Bang was inanimate matter, and anything but emptiness.
“by an inconceivably small chance, life arose on our planet.” This is an assumption. We don’t know whether it is true or false.
“In the future, the continuation of this evolution will lead to the superman.” People now are divided among those who agree with Wells (transhumanists) and those who envision our replacement by superintelligences created by ourselves (the “singularity”). In my opinion, boh are wrong.
On the other hand, the termal death of the universe still threatens us 
Regards,
I typed too fast. I meant “both” (not “boh”) and “thermal” (not “termal”).
Regards,