A lot of people and various organisations connected to Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or any other religion or myth have predicted the Apocalypse - the end of the world as we know of it - for centuries, and none of them came in to be true. How many times has the Jehova´s Witnesses or the Mormons, and even today certain christian crusador groups have predicted - the end of the world is close.
Facts are, we´re all still here in a world where the entire population of the world increases by the minute, since the negroid race of the human beings, the first man to walk the earth began his march eastern bound around the world - at least 15.-20.000 years ago.
One of the most historical famous persons, who various people later in history have proclaimed had the ability to predict certain events for the future to happen, hundreds of years post his own departure was the doctor of medicin and the astrologist Nostradamus (originally Michel de Notredame, born in France 1503, departured in 1566).
He still has his own fan club world wide. Various people and organisations, who have earned millions of dollars, claiming Nostradamus to have the ability to predict the 9/11, the Tsunami, the WWII, the end of the Sovjet Union, the San Francisco Earth Quake and so on and so forth.
Completely rediculous and out of any scientific method of explanation, and worse completely rediculous according to science and our own human culturel and social history. In his own way, Nostradamus was considered, at the time he actually was a live to be - a freak.
Only later generations of people world wide claim, Nostradamus had this ability to predict future events hundreds of years later, because they interpretate what he wrote in his very ambiguous prophecies. The same way christian crusadors of today interpretate, what was written in the Old Testament - hundreds of years later.
While, as someone said above, no one so far has been able to predict the right numbers of a lottery?, or the weather forecast for Denmark one month ahead? or who will be appointed to the leadership of the democratical western world for the future?
But a lot of people have made a fortune in money, trying to make other fellow human beings scraed to their bones with predictions of - the Apocalypse.