{"id":6585,"date":"2023-05-03T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2023-05-03T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:23:44","slug":"sir-isaac-newtons-doomsday-prediction-has-people-worried-about-an-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2023\/05\/sir-isaac-newtons-doomsday-prediction-has-people-worried-about-an-apocalypse.html","title":{"rendered":"Sir Isaac Newton&#8217;s Doomsday Prediction Has People Worried About an Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6594\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6594\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2023\/05\/apocalypse-end-of-the-world-credit-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"doomsday\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IgorZh\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton once predicted the world would end in 2060, and some people fear he might be right. Numerous people have projected the world\u2019s end, from random \u201ctime travelers\u201d on TikTok to St. John the Divine in the first century A.D.<\/p>\n<p>While some might not take these prophecies and predictions seriously, it\u2019s likely worth paying attention to when the father of modern science predicts the end of everything. Newton, who made several pioneering discoveries in mathematics and physics, believed the world as we know it would end in 2060. That might have seemed a long way off when he wrote down his detailed calculations in 1704. However, it\u2019s just 37 years away today, and many of us will still be alive when that date rolls around.<\/p>\n<p>Recent surveys indicate that roughly one in seven people think the world will end in their lifetime. Newton used his knowledge of the Bible and other religious writings to estimate a specific date when the world we know would end and be replaced with a \u201cKingdom of Heaven\u201d on Earth. He assumed that in the middle of the 21st Century, Christ would return and reign for a millennium, and the Jewish people would build \u201ca flourishing and everlasting Kingdom\u201d in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Newton wrote, \u201cSo then the time times &amp; half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years and an half, reckoning twelve months to a year and 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cAnd the days of short-lived Beasts being put for the years of lived [sic] kingdoms, the period of 1260 days if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800, will end A.C. 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner.\u201d Newton expert Stephen D. Snobelen said that scholars have known about Newton\u2019s predictions for years, but it\u2019s only become known to the general public reasonably recently.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cFor many, the revelation that Newton was a passionate believer who took biblical prophecy seriously came as something of a\u00a0shock.\u201d Snobelen added that scientists are still making apocalyptic predictions, saying, \u201cCurrently, a couple of months after the 2060 story broke, Sir Martin Reese, one of today\u2019s leading scientists, published a book entitled \u2018Our Final Hour\u2019 in which he argues that the human race has only a 50-50 chance of surviving the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton once predicted the world would end in 2060, and some people fear he might be right. Numerous people have projected the world\u2019s end, from random \u201ctime travelers\u201d on TikTok to St. John the Divine in the first century A.D. While some might not take these prophecies and predictions seriously, it\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":6594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,206,57],"tags":[1620,1623],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-biblical-prophecy","category-end-times","tag-sir-issac-newton","tag-world-ending"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sir Isaac Newton&#039;s Doomsday Prediction Has People Worried About an Apocalypse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sir Issac Newton predicted that the world as we know it would end in 2060, using the Bible and other religious writings to come to this conclusion.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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