“… The promised Armageddons—the thresholds that cannot be uncrossed, the tipping points that cannot be untipped, the existential threats to Life as We Know It—have consistently failed to materialize.” This is what Matt Ridley wants to assert in his article Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times written for Wired Magazine on August 17, 2012. The aforementioned article explains how it is absurd for humans to think that the end of the world is coming and continue to predict it, yet it never happens. As I finished reading his article, I felt like he did a good job with his argument, but minor failures must be pointed out. His selection of examples and his manner of disproving them is excellent. Riley uses solid, and appropriate