Bible predicts asteroid hitting the earth?

Science eventually catches up to the bible...

 

Yes, I do.

But the whole thing about the eclipse stood out for me, because of the Red Sox winning it that night.

 

Yeah I shoulda reread that, I thought it was tongue in cheek at first then when I reread it, I just saw you were equating the Red Sox win with being apocolyptic... Soweee

 

Oh great. A terrible natural disaster happens and suddenly it's the end of the world. I guess all those asteroids, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides etc in the times before weren't the "end" as this one was?

And if this is the end....shouldn't you be gone Thelt?

 

I think the point is, there are MORE disasters happening more often, just take a look at the past year.

 

We should be aware of what a fragile time and place we live,and not take so much for granted.

 

Certainly the tsunami was not the event described in the verses I posted above. I only mention it to show that an event like that is possible because we just saw a little taste of it.

 

Or is there just more media coverage that shows the impact of the disasters closer, faster, and bigger than ever before?

I'm assuming that you were of age in 1976. Remember this?

1976 - Tangshan earthquake in China, a magnitude 8 event whose toll of lives varies between the official 255,000, and an estimated 655,000. This event truly began the modern era of intense seismic hazard monitoring in China and the West.

 

Or these? I can't go back too far, but I don't even remember the ones from the 90's.


2004 - South Asia

An earthquake causes tsunamis that hit Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and other South Asian nations. The death toll is more than 120,000.

2003 - Iran

A 6.3 quake devastated the Iranian city of Bam, killing more than 50,000 people.

1999 - Venezuela

The death toll is still unclear from the rain-caused landslides that hit Venezuela in mid-December 1999; official estimates are as high as 30,000 deaths.

1998 - Central America

Hurricane Mitch devastates much of Honduras and Nicaragua in Central America. More than 10,000 people were killed and some 2 million left homeless as mudslides swept away whole villages.

1991 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh lost more than 130,000 people in April 1991 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1990 - Iran

An earthquake triggers a landslide, causing from 40,000 to 50,000 deaths in western Iran on June 20, 1990.

1988 - Armenia

In 1988, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates Armenia, killing over 100,000 people perished.

1985 - Colombia

And a small eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia on November 13, 1985 leads to a massive mudflow that covers the city of Armero and kills more than 23,000 people.

1983 - Thailand

Monsoons kill 10,000 people in Thailand over the course of three months in 1983. Some 100,000 people contracted waterborne diseases as a result of the storm.

1976 - China

A deadly earthquake of a magnitude 8.0 strikes Tianjin, China, on July 27, 1976. The official casualty figure issued by the Chinese government was 255,000 people.

1970 - Bangladesh

Bangladesh loses more than 300,000 people in November 1970 from cyclone-induced flooding.

1970 - Peru

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake at Mount Huascaran, Peru, on May 21, 1970, causes a rock and snow avalanche that buries 2 towns, killing as many as 20,000 people.

1959 - China

In July 1959, massive floods in China kill at least 2 million people.

 

I'm thinking of looking more at what's happened in the past 12 months. And at the moment West Coast is in bad shape too.