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What age were most of the doomsayers thoughout history, I wonder? It seems awfully convenient that Camping was knocking on death's door already.
Makes me wonder: if so many people are willing to financially support religious ideas, perhaps this need to believe in something crazy could be better channeled into a network of theorists, each 'evangelizing' their own TESTABLE (but likely wrong) hypothesis. That said, I suppose in the end Camping's hypothesis was testable, and he later admitted fault (again, for the wrong reasoning...), placing him and his theories above the ilk of the common religions.
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