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25 May 2011

What we can learn from Harold Camping

“People will often go to extraordinary lengths to maintain prior beliefs in the face of evidence to

By Nelson Jones

Much fun has been had over the past week at the expense of Harold Camping, the elderly American evangelist whose prediction of the “Rapture” – the taking up to heaven of the saved amid earthquakes and other manifestations of doom – turned out to be somewhat premature.

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