End of the World? Not Likely, Scientists Say

[Keith]

I couldn't get the article to post without looking all wonky again, so here is the link to the final news article I'm posting... http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/...d_of_world.html

[other one]

I couldn't get the article to post without looking all wonky again, so here is the link to the final news article I'm posting... http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/...d_of_world.html

So what is this final news article thing???????

[hmh]

It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiiiiiiiiine...

[JohnS]

The recent spate of natural disasters affecting the globe "might be" signs that the Biblical apocalypse is near, says Christian televangelist Pat Robertson.

On an Oct. 9 episode of CNN's "Late Edition," the preacher noted that hurricanes such as Katrina and Rita and earthquakes like the ones that struck Pakistan this past weekend and the tsunami-causing one that struck Indonesia last December are hitting with "amazing regularity."

Scientists see Earth doing what she always does, however.

Latter days?

"If you read back in the Bible, [Paul] said that in the latter days before the [apocalypse] that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order," Robertson said. "Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium."

But before there can be heaven on Earth, there will be some "difficult days" which will be like "what a woman goes through in labor just before she brings forth a child," Robertson said.

Seth Stein, a seismologists at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, thinks everything is as it should be, at least as far as earthquakes go.

"I don't think there's any reason to believe the frequency of large earthquakes has changed over the past million years," Stein told LiveScience. "That's contrary to everything we know about how the Earth works."

On average, there is at least one magnitude 8 earthquake every year and about 17 magnitude 7's, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Pakistan quake measured 7.6.

Location, location, location

Of course, some places on Earth are more prone to earthquakes than others.

Alaska is one of the most seismically active regions in the world

[yomotalking]

It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fiiiiiiiiiiine...

Me toooooooooooo

[TEXASGRANDMA]

I don't feel fine. I pray every day for the return of our Lord and Savior, yet, know when He comes the world is going to go through a 7 year period with horrible things that has never happened before.

It breaks my heart that so many people are lost. I breaks my heart that even some Christians have turned their back on God and given up on Jesus returning.

Yes, O do believe Jesus is coming very soon.

betty

[Keith]

I couldn't get the article to post without looking all wonky again, so here is the link to the final news article I'm posting... http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/...d_of_world.html

So what is this final news article thing???????

Sorry, I should have said "final news article 'for now.'" With the new Worthy upgrades I'm having a few troubles doing anything but regular posts. Til I figure them out, I'm not going to try. I've been Mr. Grumpy Pants lately (and lost more than a bit of patience), but I figured out why. I've given up sugar. I didn't eat a lot of it but I'm taking big steps in getting healthier (no, I'm not unhealthy or sick) and take better care of myself. Guess I'm having a few detox or sugar-withdrawal issues and it's made me a little grumpy.

[Micah68]

Stick with the no sugar deal and you'll be a lot less grumpy from now on!! Sugar is bad news ... but that's another subject. I didn't try to read the article because of the others' apparent troubles with it, but why should we believe scientists about whether or not it's the end of the world? Besides 'the end of the world' is just an expression we use to say the end of these times or the end of satan's kingdom or the end of the world as we know it. In reality, if we were to look at it from God's perspective, He would probably be thrilled and call it the beginning of His kingdom or the 'beginning of the world.' The fact however remains that there will be much turmoil in the next years because satan does not easily give up something that he has held in the palm of his hand for so long. But the beauty of the Bible is that you can know the end of our story by reading the end of HISstory.

[Keith]

There aren't any problems with the link. I click on it and it takes me to the article just fine.

[Christ's Free Servant]

I couldn't get the article to post without looking all wonky again, so here is the link to the final news article I'm posting... http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/...d_of_world.html

So what is this final news article thing???????

Sorry, I should have said "final news article 'for now.'" With the new Worthy upgrades I'm having a few troubles doing anything but regular posts. Til I figure them out, I'm not going to try. I've been Mr. Grumpy Pants lately (and lost more than a bit of patience), but I figured out why. I've given up sugar. I didn't eat a lot of it but I'm taking big steps in getting healthier (no, I'm not unhealthy or sick) and take better care of myself. Guess I'm having a few detox or sugar-withdrawal issues and it's made me a little grumpy.

John the Baptist lived on honey, didn't he?