Is The Apocalypse Upon Us?

Are current events really evidence that the end of human existence is coming? Do highly destructive weather patterns, devastating earthquakes, emerging new diseases and man-made disasters foretell a pending apocalypse? Are the predictions throughout human history of the coming end of the world fact or fiction? Events that have some people wondering about the end times include a record-setting hurricane season last year, and a 500 percent increase in tornadoes over the normal U.S. average so far during 2006. Predictions of global warming, the threat of a worldwide bird flu pandemic, increase in earthquakes over the past decade, and today is 06/06/06.