NASA's 7 reasons the world won't end in 2012

Are we all gonna die?

Cyberspace is filled with doomsday prophecies and end-of-the-world predictions. NASA reports being bombarded with rumors of rogue planets, mysterious black holes and, of course the end of the Mayan calendar. So, are NASA scientists digging bunkers, loading up their families on secret space ships … or recruiting Bruce Willis and Robert Duvall to blow up incoming asteroids?

What is going on?

"There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012,” says Don Yeomans, a senior research scientist at NASA. “Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science. There is even a fake NASA news release out there..." So, what is really going on? And what is NASA doing about it?

Is this the end?

What about the ancient prediction that the world ends in 2012? Around December 12, 2012, the Mayan calendar completes a 5,126-year cycle. Author Jose Arguelles called the date "the ending of time as we know it" in a 1987 book that spawned today’s rampant Mayan alarmism and all those vivid descriptions of a cataclysmic end. However, anthropologists specializing in Mayan folklore say the end of the Mayan cycle merely marks the termination of one period and the beginning of another – much like taking down last year’s calendar on January 1 and putting up a new one. "We have to be clear about this,” says Erik Velasquez at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The claims are bogus – and only served to sell a lot of books. “There is no prophecy for 2012."

It can’t be that simple!

After all, the Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012! The National Institute of Anthropological History in Mexico has been trying for months to quell the barrage of forecasts predicting the apocalypse. "The West's messianic thinking,” the institute said in a recent statement, “has distorted the world view of ancient civilizations like the Mayans." “Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall,” says NASA’s website. “does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long

-count period. Then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins.”

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For me, I am still a strong belief in the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad SAW (hadith) , where the end of this world will take place after about 40 years Jesus Christ (Nabi Isa Al Masih) was send back to this world. Look around us whether Jesus already among us, as Allah promised in his holly book that Jesus will be the great king of this world just before the world is almost destroyed.

All parties can make a variety of research and feedback, but as a Muslims we must look at what is stated clearly in the Holy Quranul Karim, the holly scripture miracles of our Prophet.