Hey CJ, As far as the "how could this be so" it's very simple, God decides that it's time...The common answer to your question about "the proof" goes like this..."There's an abundance of evidence staring us in the face if you are disposed to see it, and none if you are not"

J.W.'s are a cultist organization that have perverted the bible...alas, even a broken clock is right twice a day! take care!

Well... With the increase of carbon producing factories popping up all over China & other developing Nations there is undoubtedly an overwhelming chance that globar warming is set on an irreversable course now. The worlds glaciers are retreating at alarming rates, whatever the cause may be, and the fact that we are losing not only our reflective surface but the oceans salts will soon be depleated completely because of all the fresh water pouring into our seas. That screws up the balance of nature. That is an almost certain design for disaster. Also. It's not only prophecied in the major religions of the world, but native tribes have always talked about different "worlds" coming into and out of existence. The Mayans & Hopi in particular speak of "End times" just as the Judaeo-Christian & Muslim beliefs. Proof? Just look around you, you'll see it, it's everywhere. </shrug>

Just my 2 pesos, take that FWIW.

then go do something about global warming, stupid wars and the rest of it ;-)

It's a peculiar thing to me, how people say stuff like this but never ask themselves...

WHY?

why would you start doing stuff like that NOW?

how come you haven't been doing it before?

sad truth...If man could save himself, he would of done it by now!

but he can't, and this mindset is a large part of it...

Insanity definition: to continue the same behaviors while expecting a different result.

Amen to that Brother! By what ever means it's happening, it is the hand of the Creator that set it all in motion. For even if you only believe in science, science alone doesn't fully explain evolution, the big bang & all of that... They always get stopped at the beginning w/ no viable answers. It's clear what happened, however He actually did make it happen: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Plain and very simple. Now the bible does not say that He _didn't_ start the big bang & evolution or whatever... and I am under the impression after all my research into it, that He indeed started His creations on a path to evolve on both the micro & macro scales of things. The evidence is all around us to this very day. The Almighty has always existed, even before time & space itself. For you cannot have time w/out space, and to quantify space distances you need time. Now I don't pretend to understand where He actually was while there was no space to exist in, for all I know He was the tiny, dense spec that began it all. All that I do know is, it doesn't say that He wasn't the infinate spec... :)