End Of The World Not May 21st - Harold Camping Wrong

As this blog post is written, today is Thursday, May 19th, 2011. If Christian Radio Broadcaster Harold Camping has his way, Saturday May 21st will be The End Of The World. It's not necessary to go into a lot of detail to explain that Mr. Harold Camping is wrong.
Rather than immediately point to any Biblical scripture that reads "The World Will End On May 21st 2011," Camping points to a self-created math that leads him to that conclusion. But, really, it's a conclusion Camping would have come to an asserted without numbers.
It's just like Google using an algorithm to express what really is a set of opinions about how Internet search, and the placement of news, should work. Google execs are fond of pointing to this 'black box' that produces a result, but the fact is, if that black box comes up with a search outcome that's not in favor with their views, it will be altered.
Mr. Camping, originally a Berkeley-trained Civil Engineer long before creating the ministry of Family Stations, Inc., used a mathematical system of his own design to generate his result, which has really nothing directly to do with the Bible. In fact, in an interview in New York Magazine, Camping says...

— but there’s nothing in the Bible that holds a candle to the amount of information to this tremendous truth of the end of the world. I would be absolutely in rebellion against God if I thought anything other than it is absolutely going to happen without any question.

In other words, forget the Bible, the end of the World is nigh!
In this way, Camping is very much like another "expert" on what God is, does, and intends who was attacked in this space: Dr. Stephen Hawking. Hawking is as certain that Heaven's a "fairy tale," much as Camping is sure that the World will end this Saturday, and both hide behind math and science to prove their points.
And the media gives them a ton of attention.
Yikes, man. Yikes.
Camping's backers are every bit as self-righteous as Hawkings's and just as annoying. Both are wrong, but in Camping's case, all it take is for us to wake up and see Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 to know it.

May 21: The End of the World?!

 
Is the world coming to an end May 21, 2011? Harold Camping says so. The Colorado minister insists Doomsday is this Saturday, so it must be true.
“The whole universe is going to be destroyed by fire," says Camping, who created a formula based on Bible verses to pinpoint the end of the world.
Apparently he's not the only believer. Some followers of his Doomsday theory have already quit their jobs as part of their preparations for the end.
May as well, right? Rapture trumps recession. Safe to say the 89-year-old minister and his backers side with Kirk Cameron over Stephen Hawking.
The 89-year-old uses rather sophisticated equations all tied to one date - the date of the flood from Noah’s Ark. His faithful followers have embraced this.
Of course, there have been thousands of predictions tied to the end of the world or the apocalypse, and all turned out to be BS. So who knows.
If the end is but 48 hours away, we just have to say what an honor it's been providing you with celebrity gossip - and occasional other nonsense such as this story - for all these years. From all of us at THG, we love you, readers.

Preacher says May 21st is “Judgment Day”

 
A California preacher's beliefs are getting some nationwide attention these days, even here at home with a billboard and radio ads. He believes the end of the world is near. 
You may have seen the billboard that reads "Judgment Day" is Saturday, May 21, 2011. Or, you've may have heard a radio ad while driving around town. "The time is May 21^st. May 21. May 21^st, 2011," the ad says. 
That's according to preacher Harold Camping. He's running the radio spot in Reno, to remind people of his belief; Christ's second coming is this weekend. 
Camping runs an independent Christian ministry called "Family Radio Worldwide" out of Oakland, California. He believes The Bible is a calendar of prophecies that can be calculated, all his interpretations of course. 
Father Norman King with Immaculate Conception Church says not to worry, "for anyone to speculate a particular date, I think that is totally hokum."
If Camping is basing his prediction on recent catastrophic events like, Mississippi river flooding in the south, major quakes like we've seen in Japan, wars in the Middle East, or invading insects. Father King says it's all happened throughout history, but no apocalypse. "It could happen today.  It could be at six o'clock tonight. It could be anytime," Father King says. 
And even if the messages are aimed at the masses, people we talked with say they're not buying it. "I think it's a guy who's trying to make a lot of money by broadcasting it on his radio and having people subscribe and give him some money," Gavin Jarcia of South Lake Tahoe, California says. 
"The end of the world is not May 21^st, so don't make plans. I would suggest you have a BBQ on May 22^nd," Sandy Masters of Reno says.
Many people say Camping's prediction is false since his last "Judgment Day" prediction didn't come true in 1994.