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Forget doomsayers; stop smoking, fasten seatbelts, advises astronomer
07-01-2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Forget worrying over end-of-the-world predictions; lives are more at risk of being lost from smoking and driving without a seatbelt, said a Vatican astronomer.
U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno said, there is no reason to believe the claims behind the new apocalyptic science fiction film, "2012," or other doomsday scenarios.
"People have been predicting the end of the world since the dawn of humanity. Up until now, none of these theories have turned out to be true and there is no reason to believe (that they will come true) in 2012," he said in an interview published Jan. 6 in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
The article's headline read: "2012? It's not the end of the world, at all." Brother Consolmagno said there is a more serious problem behind the many forecasts of doom on the horizon.
"These beliefs spread because we are all tempted by the desire to possess secret knowledge of the future, thinking that it will make us more powerful than others. In reality, this is only a sign of bad science or bad religion," he said.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20100106.htm
