First Harold Camping, a right-wing religious kook, predicted May 21, 2011 as the day the world would end. Somehow, it didn’t. Then he shifted the date to today and he’s bungled again. It’s 6:pm CST, Fri., Oct. 21, 2011 in the US, but 7:am and Sat., Oct. 22, 2011 in Beijing, China, and the Chinese are still there. Perhaps Camping’s problem is that he probably thinks the Earth is less than 10,000 years old when in fact it’s about 4 billion years old; a little fact like that might be throwing off his calculations. Note to Harold: next time, instead of buying billboards featuring your embarrassingly erroneous predictions, why not donate that money to the poor, as Jesus would have done.
