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Posted at 08:19 AM ET, 05/18/2011

Is Harold Camping’s May 21, 2011 doomsday prediction wrong?

In a live Q&A Tuesday,Dr. Doug Weaver, a religion professor at Baylor University, answered questions on Harold Camping’s predictions for the end of the world May 21. When asked whether he believed Camping was right in his beliefs, he answered,

“I figure I'll be here next week, preparing for my new class in the fall semester.  If the end time comes like a ‘thief in the night,’ it should be a surprise, correct?  I like to think that every prediction is automatically wrong because God wouldn't let one particular person have the pride of saying ‘I got that one.’  God controls the end, not us.”

And if Camping is wrong, Weaver predicts that he may just try again,

I suppose he will go back and re-calcuate.  He has done that before.

For more information on the predictions for May 21 and how Camping came to his conclusions, read the full chat .

By Jodi Westrick  |  08:19 AM ET, 05/18/2011

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