From Mayans long count calendar to Hindu's end of Kulki (Kalyug) including the Hopi tribe, the Bible, along with Nostradamus all seem to have the same belief that the world will end in 2012. Modern science searches for answers to these predictions. Read the full story.
Surprisingly, since the beginning of recorded time, people have been thinking about the end of the world and making predictions about how and when it might happen. Most major religions have their own theories on the topic, which often include fateful battles between the forces of good and evil and cataclysmic natural disasters.
According to a 2007 article in The New York Times, “[g]nostics predicted the imminent arrival of God’s kingdom as early as the first century.” The Shakers thought the world would be over in 1792, while the Jehovah’s Witnesses pegged various years between 1914 and 1994 as an end date. More recently, some doomsday forecasters have focused on the year 2012. Citing the conclusion of a lengthy cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar, certain theorists anticipate the end of life as we know it on December 21, 2012.
