By Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research
Ig
Nobel Prize winner Harold Camping is dead. Camping shared the 2011 Ig Nobel
Prize for mathematics. That prize was awarded to
Dorothy Martin of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1954), Pat
Robertson of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1982), Elizabeth
Clare Prophet of the USA (who predicted the world would end in 1990), Lee
Jang Rim of KOREA (who predicted the world would end in 1992), Credonia
Mwerinde of UGANDA (who predicted the world would end in 1999), and Harold
Camping of the USA (who predicted the world would end on September 6,
1994 and later predicted that the world will end on October 21, 2011), for
teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and
calculations.
USA
Today and the Associated Press report:
Doomsday minister Harold Camping dead at 92
OAKLAND, California (AP) — Harold Camping, the U.S. preacher who
used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast
the end of the world and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific
doomsdays did not come to pass, has died at age 92.
Camping, a retired civil engineer who built a worldwide following
for the nonprofit Oakland, California-based ministry he founded in 1958, died
at his home Sunday, said Family Radio Network marketing manager Nina Romero….
Camping’s most widely spread prediction was that the Rapture would happen
on May 21, 2011. His independent Christian media empire spent millions of
dollars — some of it from donations made by followers who quit their jobs and
sold all their possessions— to spread the word on more than 5,000 billboards
and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message. When the Judgment Day
he foresaw did not materialize, the preacher revised his prophecy, saying he
had been off by five months…
STATUS
REPORT (SUMMARY): Mr. Camping is not still not dead. At least one of his
co-winners, Pat Robertson, is
still not dead.
HISTORICAL
BONUS: How Harold does his math
BONUS:
Two interviews with Mr. Camping in 2011, shortly after the world did not end
again:
- See
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