Well a good question. I don't know and neither do you! If you believe in a God, good on you, but I do not. I do believe, like all things on earth, that, everything recycles. You drink water, pee water, then it evaporates, then rains down again and thus we drink it again. A tree will grow, die and rot, through the rot, it enriches the soil for a new tree to grow, In other words, it recycles. I think, humans are the same. Scientists have proved, that energy, cannot be destroyed. Thus no end, to us. Our lives perhaps, but we can in carnate. We will never know for certain after death. Then if born again, in another body, another culture, everything is new again, so perhaps start agin as new. Hope this helps ya???

Since there is no "atheist religion", there isn't a group belief about this subject. Atheists are free to draw their own conclusions about whether there will be an "end". I think things move and change all the time, incrementally, and are never exactly the same from moment to moment. It is entirely possible that the world will be markedly different 1000 years from now -- volcanos and earthquakes will gradually change the shape of land and sea on the earth. People will most likely be closer to having the same skin color. Some species will have vanished and perhaps new ones will be discovered. Perhaps, eventually, the actions of man will result in the inability to reproduce or to sustain life and the species of man will die out. Perhaps a comet will crash into the earth and destroy the entire planet. So, this particular atheist doesn't know what will happen but has fun discussing and thinking about the theories. I can't speak for any other atheist, because atheists don't have a standard set of ideas that are unilaterally adopted.

Atheists, unlike those who hold beliefs, use scientific exploration and discovery to try and envision the future of the Universe. This is an ongoing process and opinions change over time. What is constant though is that whatever the current view is it will be based on the facts available at the time - not on the arcane writings of an ancient book.

Just to add to what LynfromNM and prustage have said, their answers are good.. I can't speak for all atheists because we haven't really discussed this at our secret atheist planning meetings.. (joke!) I don't know that it makes sense to talk about the universe in terms of an end and a beginning. Because of our relatively short lifespans we are very wedded to the idea of linear time with a beginning, middle, and end. But the universe is much vaster than we can comprehend and it might not work that way. For that reason I don't thing there is necessarily an "end point" for the universe and the countless things that exist within it. Earth, on the other hand, is another matter. Being a relatively small planet in close proximity to a star which does have a clear lifespan, it is entirely likely that it will eventually be wiped out one way or another. We humans may also through our actions make it uninhabitable, which is another way of "ending" from our perspective. Humanity might cease to exist due to the destruction of Earth, unless we end up migrating to other locations. Even if we do, the possibility of extinction due to some unforseen disaster is always in play. It's also possible that humanity will change so much in the next, say, 1000 years or so that we wouldn't recognize our descendents to be human as we understand it today. In shorter terms, I tend to think that all living things will eventually come to an end, but the universe probably won't, not from our perspective at least. But I'm relatively uninformed about the details of the Big Bang/Big Crunch scientific theory, so I can't speak to that possibility or for anything else other atheists may believe. I'm more educated in biology than physics and so my pov may seem pretty kooky to someone in that field. That's the fun part of sharing ideas in a forum like this!

Well eventually either the sun will blow up or our galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galexy. Not much of a belief issue.

The way I see it, nothing will ever end. Change alone is eternal but something will always exist.

As a group: no. The individuals differ. I personally believe that life on Earth will end. Our Sun has a life span, and it is a fact that that life span will run out eventually. We may or may not be around when that happens. There are impending nuclear wars, meteors, viruses, diseases, natural disasters, etc. With all of these, it is only a matter of time before one (or ALL) of them wipe out life.

Atheists (non-believers) probably feel the same way that non-hairdressers do about this issue.

I can not speak for all atheists, but I can and will speak for myself. I assume you are speaking of the world - will the world end? Yes, there is no doubt it will, the only question is how. A Meteor, maybe? Prehapse a few more tsunamis? Maybe a horrible new diease? Something of htat sort, prehapse? And if none of those things happen, then there's no doubt to me that we'll eventualy destroy ourselves if the Sun doesn't expand and get us first.

Atheists don't have anything in common except thinking that none of the gods around are actually real. So an atheist is not likely to believe there will be an "end" such as a Judgement Day or somesuch. The universe may well end sometime - for us anyway - by becoming a place where nothing can live. Not going to happen for a long, long time though...

Will there be an end? An end of what? My life, yes. Humanity, probably. The earth, almost certainly. Time and space, that's way above my pay grade. I can't speak for all atheists, but I don't see any reason for there to be any sort of Armageddon-ish end to anything.

They believe they will die and that's it.

As you can see we atheists all have different ideas. You can't group us together. Will this world end? Yes. Will our sun supernova one day? yes. Will Andromeda and the Milky Way collide? Most likely. What will happen to humans? Who knows. I think we'll continue to merge with our technology. Eventually so much so that we'll become trans-humans of sorts.

not everyone thinks the same thing. but i'd say that when the first day of 2012 comes and goes i'll be so upset that nothing happened... i spent 6 years of my life holding onto the end and it never came... well i guess i have t.v. to watch kids to take care of and a car that needs fixing.

Yes, I'm blowing the whole world up tomorrow with my pellet rifle. DUCK!

I dont know if there will be an end to all things. I know for a fact that there will be an end to the Earth. In a few billion years the Sun will go Supernova & that'll be that. I suppose it's possible if this happens to every star then eventually the universe may blink out of existance, but thats a long way off.