'Doomsday' minister mum on 2012 forecast
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 20:30
in Astronomy & Space
The year 2011 has flown by without a hitch … or, at least, without Earth bursting into flames. Radio evangelist Harold Camping's famous pair of prophecies — his prediction that true Christians would be safely evacuated to heaven on May 21, and that a series of global cataclysms would then climax in a grand, Earth-shattering finale on Oct. 21 — seem to have flopped. Yes, it looks as if we'll make it to 2012 after all. But what then? Camping himself doesn't have much to say on the subject.