Why Failed Predictions Don't Stop Apocalypse Forecasters

**cricket** · 01-06-2011, 04:53 AM

One more for the doomsday pile....

By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist

If a group of fundamentalist Christians is right, you won't live more than another nine months.
Harold Camping, leader of the ministry Family Radio Worldwide, has concluded after careful study of the Bible that the world will begin to end on May 21, 2011. It will actually take several months for the process to be complete, but Camping is certain that by October it will all be over, and his group is doing their best to warn everyone.

The sect members are spreading their doomsday message using billboards, travelling caravans of RVs holding volunteers who pass out relevant pamphlets, and bus-stop benches, according to the Associated Press. "Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling through Latin America and Africa to spread the news outside the U.S," the AP reported.

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**Coroner** · 01-06-2011, 05:45 AM

I think its a shame when people with influence force doomsday on us and get people scared - why not use that people power to change the world for the good then there would be no talk of doomsday

**HyperUniverse** · 01-06-2011, 05:46 AM

the Bible is not a reliable guide to determining when or if the world's going to end

I have to disagree with this statement (whoever made it).

The Bible IS very precise and reliable about the End of the World.

It says clearly in the Bible, that NOBODY - not even Jesus, nor even angels in Heavens, DO NOT KNOW that time (or date).
Only The Lord God knows it.

So...whoever tells you (s)he read the Bible and "deciphered" when the End of the World is going to be; (s)he is either GOD or a LIAR.

**Xeno** · 01-06-2011, 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by HyperUniverse

I have to disagree with this statement (whoever made it).

The Bible IS very precise and reliable about the End of the World.

It says clearly in the Bible, that NOBODY - not even Jesus, nor even angels in Heavens, DO NOT KNOW that time (or date).
Only The Lord God knows it.

So...whoever tells you (s)he read the Bible and "deciphered" when the End of the World is going to be; (s)he is either GOD or a LIAR.

Haha... I like that. That, I feel is one of the better verses when dealing with situations like thing.