Not only did Jesus warn his disciples that it was not for them to know when the end would come, but his explanation of the signs of the end times are events that happen regularly. Wars, pestilence, famine, war, earthquakes, unrest... these were things that were happening before he came, and which continue to happen since. He may as well have predicted that the rising of the Sun in the morning was a sign that the end was at hand.
Why do you think so many people have tried to predict the end of the world? They based their assumptions on those events, at least in part. The more creative ones start playing some very entertaining games with numerology to pinpoint the exact date, but apparently their lack of proof extends even to mathematics.
Why do you think so many people have tried to predict the end of the world? They based their assumptions on those events, at least in part. The more creative ones start playing some very entertaining games with numerology to pinpoint the exact date, but apparently their lack of proof extends even to mathematics.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould