Happy New Year.
As with all new years, in the coming days and weeks, there will be plenty of reflection over the most significant events of 2011. And there will also be predictions about what will happen in 2012. Some of the predictions will be silly. Others will be sublime. And some predictions will actually turn out to be accurate.
One prediction that will most certainly get some attention in this week, is the Mayan Calendar prediction. You know, the theory that the ancient Mayan civilization predicted the end of the world--an Apocalypse, complete with asteroids colliding into earth and other natural disasters--would occur on December 21, 2012, because their "Long Count" calendar does not contain days after that day.
The theory has been rejected by the descendants of the ancient Mayans and the scientific community, but has its supporters in the United States (There must be some people who still believe this theory because there has been a moderately successful movie and four major books written on the subject in the last year).
Surely, in anticipation of the predictions we will hear, NASA, has issued a statement indicating that there would be no Apocalypse as no planets or asteroids are set to collide into the earth in 2012.
So the world will not end in 2012. Finally, something fundamentalist Christians and scientists can agree on. Now, if we can just get the whole Creationism argument worked out...
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