He seems to have written his own obituary so maybe he's not planning on surviving.
What a loon. This is the sort of stuff that happens to a bright mind when it's locked away on a college campus for too many decades.
He's run out of original thoughts and now he has to resort to some bad movie ideas to sound interesting.
From the student evaluations, excerpted on his webpage:
" This is the closest thing this university has to a true religion course and Pianka is the perfect preacher. In other science courses we are taught to look at things specifically and therefore lose the big picture. In this class we study the big picture. 'Why are we here?' That question is answered in evolution. Everyone should be required to take this class to 'spread the word.'"
He, Ward Churchill, and Peter Singer could serve as charter members of the faculty of the University of Hell.