The End of the World!

As December 21, 2012 draws ever nearer, we are constantly reminded of our impending doom predicted by the Mayans. This date is based off of the Mayan calendar. Most -if not all- scholars on the subject have rejected this idea. There is no indication that this date means any actual end of the world. In fact, it sounds like it's literally just the end of the calendar. It would be like finding a modern calendar, and then claiming the world is going to end on December 31. Assertions of a planetary alignment happening on this date have been disproven by astronomers too. Basically, this is just as over hyped as the apocalypse prediction from last year.

The Roland Emmerich movie, 2012, from 2009 capitalized on all of the various theories about the 2012 apocalypse. I think the main reason why I wanted to see the movie was just to see how Emmerich would end the world. Well I think he literally took every theory. You have a solar flare heating the Earth's core which causes the Yellowstone super volcano to explode and ultimately a polar shift. The polar shift is responsible for earthquakes and mega-tsunamis as well as causing California to sink into the Pacific Ocean. Not a bad movie, but I have no desire to rewatch it.

Despite the prediction of Christian evangelist Harold Camping last year, the Bible is very clear that the date of the apocalypse cannot be known. Matthew 24:36 clearly states, "of that day and hour knoweth no man." It really annoyed me when atheists were falsely attributing this doomsday prediction as an actual prediction from the Bible. Nothing annoys me more than blatant bad arguments. Point being, as a Christian, we should not take any doomsday date seriously. Of course, as rationale human beings, we should not take any doomsday predictions seriously - especially for 2012. There just is simply no valid reason to believe in the 2012 prediction. There's no biblical support, there's no scientific support, and there's no Mayan support who purportedly made the prediction.