No Show? Preacher's Doomsday Prediction Echoes Past Failures | Harold Camping Oct. 21 Doomsday Prediction | Failed End-of-World Predictions & Explanations | Apocalypse, Rapture & Armageddon | LiveScience

No Show? Preacher's Doomsday Prediction Echoes Past Failures | Harold Camping Oct. 21 Doomsday Prediction | Failed End-of-World Predictions & Explanations | Apocalypse, Rapture & Armageddon | LiveScience: "California radio preacher Harold Camping was wrong when he predicted that the world would end Friday (Oct. 21). But his failed prediction puts him in good company.

Doomsday prophets have been around for thousands of years, according to sociologists, and failed doomsday predictions rarely stop them for long. Camping himself originally claimed the world would end in 1994, later asserting that he'd gotten his Biblical math wrong and the real date would be Oct. 21, 2011.

In fact, Camping had also predicted Judgment Day, complete with devastating earthquakes and a Rapture of the faithful, on May 21 of this year. After that prediction failed, Camping stuck to his guns, claiming that a spiritual, non-physical, rapture had indeed happened on that day."

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