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Fact-Checking the Apocalypse
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Posted: 26 Apr 2011 12:29 PM PDT

We should fact-check the apocalypse more often:

On ABC's "This Week," the Rev. Franklin Graham was wrong when he said that earthquakes, wars and famines are occurring "with more frequency and more intensity."

The preacher, who is the son of the Rev. Billy Graham and president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, discussed the prophecy of Armageddon with host Christiane Amanpour during a special Easter edition of the Sunday talk show.

Graham, April 24: I believe we are in the latter days of this age. When I say "latter days," could it be the last hundred years or the last thousand years or the last six months? I don't know.
But the Bible, the things that the Bible predicts, earthquakes and famines, nation rising against nation, we see this happening with more frequency and more intensity.

On all three counts, the preacher is wrong. Today's famines and armed conflicts are fewer and relatively smaller than those in the last century, and the frequency of major earthquakes has remained about the same.

Read on.

Skier Outjumps Avalanche

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 10:39 AM PDT

Posted this earlier over on Posterous, but here it is again: Skier outjumps avalanche.

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Posted: 26 Apr 2011 10:28 AM PDT

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