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RE: 2017 is the new 2012
February 14, 2013 at 3:49 am
I have visions of a guy in a room just picking random numbers out of a hat, and then claiming that is going to be the end of days. I think it would be 2081 its as valid as that, based on no scientific evidence.
Still look at the amount of money Harold Camping got in 2010 for his radio station with people actually giving up his life savings
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RE: 2017 is the new 2012
February 14, 2013 at 10:12 am
That's some prognosticative ability. A 12th century rabbi foretold the end of the world, but didn't see the holocaust coming.
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RE: 2017 is the new 2012
March 11, 2013 at 6:19 am
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RE: 2017 is the new 2012
March 11, 2013 at 6:54 am
And people will still but the next one. Sort of a death wish mindset. Some years ago, some minister had predicted the end of the world. The mother of a friend of mine was a follower, had her hair done for the occasion, made sure the neighbor would take care of the dog, lay in bed in her best clothes, and waited for the rapture (a sort-of end of the world).
The next morning she was pissed at God because she knew that the other follwoers went and she was just as good. She was better when she found out nobody left, but fell for the next prediction.
Chumps.
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RE: 2017 is the new 2012
March 28, 2013 at 1:21 pm
(February 14, 2013 at 10:12 am)cato123 Wrote: That's some prognosticative ability. A 12th century rabbi foretold the end of the world, but didn't see the holocaust coming.
Maybe he knew about it, but didn't want to undermine anyone's faith.
"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
