To the naked eye from the southern hemisphere next year) are ludicrous.Įris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain There is no factual basis for these claims, and most of them (suchĪs that Nibiru has been hiding behind the Sun or that it will be visible No: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Eris that isĪpproaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespreadĪ. Those who fear the cries of the doomsayers on theĪn Astrobiologist." He fields queries such as the following:
Scientist of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, has been responding to In 1997, 39 members of a UFOĬommitted suicide as a condition for preparing themselves for transport on a Not all doomsday cults end so sweetly, however. When the world didn'tĮnd and their space ship didn't arrive to take them away, Keech told herįollowers that their faith had saved both them and the world. In the 1950s, Marian Keech led such a cult. * Richard Noone took advantage of people's fears to exploit that date in hisĭoomsday cults have also been associated with UFOs andĪliens who are to take followers to another planet while Earth isĭestroyed. 10 March 1982 was supposed to be a day of devastating earthquakes, according to John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann in Predicted the end of the world would occur then. Was such a day and seers such as Jeanne Dixon Will come to Earth when the planets align in a certain way. Motivated by supernatural signs, however. Not all those who claim to know when the end will come are Camping, who has made millions promoting his religious ideas on Family Radio, spent more than $100 million on a worldwide advertising campaign proclaiming Judgment Day. Wayne Bent), who claims he is the messiah and predicted the world would endĪnother recent example of a failed doomsday prediction is that of Harold Camping, an 89-year-old self-styled expert in the scriptures who told his followers that his interpretations of the Bible had uncovered the true date of the end of the world. Not to worry thereĪre plenty of others who continue to howl that the end is near. So many times that they've quit making specific predictions, but they're Some, like the Jehovah's Witnesses, have been wrong Given prophecy that the world will end on some specific date will come true. Obviously, so far they've all been wrong, which lowers the odds that any Sure theologians have worked out to the satisfaction of their undemandingĭoomsday has been predicted many times by many prophets. How billions of people will fit into this tiny space is a mystery that I'm Spectators will be allowed at Armageddon (so you better pick your side now), which is said to be Led by Abraham's god, and the forces of evil, led by Satan. Occur at Armageddon between the forces of good, Many Christians believe the final war will The Abrahamic religions and believe that prior to judgmentĭay there will be a great battle. Some doomsayers, however, are a bit more parochial andĪssociate doomsday with massive destruction only in their little part of the
Various books of the Bible, for example, haveīeen sources of end-times speculation for as long as these books have been The religiousĭoomsayers usually refer to a sacred book that contains cryptic propheciesĪbout the end of the world. Matter how you define these terms, it could get messy. Since most people are a mixture of both, no The good will be rewarded for being good and the evil Some associate doomsday with the end of the universe and aĭay of judgment by some mighty being who dwells outside of the universe and Somebody for whom the signs of catastrophe and imminent calamity are A doomsday cult is a group of people led by a charismaticĬharacter who has convinced them that the end is near. It is aĭay of colossal catastrophe, devastating destruction, extinction, andĪnnihilation. A 2014 Public Religion Research Institute survey of adult Americans found that 49% of those polled believe we are in the end times.ĭoomsday is the day the world as we know it ends.
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