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LOL, ok, sometimes I'm a bit of a pessimist, but even meteorologists and scientists are baffled by severe weather patterns, climactical changes and geological disturbances today, and you can't deny their frequency and record-breaking severity.

There have been over 350,000 deaths from just two recent events, the Indonesian tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake. This does not include the approx. 50,000 deaths in Iran from two recent earthquakes, the recent hurricanes, volcanos, famines and raging wars in Africa. Nor does it include the estimated millions of deaths worldwide from AIDS, (especially in Africa), over the last decade.

And you can't deny that today mankind has the power to destroy the world all by ourselves with warfare, which makes Biblical prophesy nothing to snicker at.

but even meteorologists and scientists are baffled by severe weather patterns, climactical changes and geological disturbances today,

Uh, no, they are not. The recent hurricanes are part of a cycle meteorologists have warned us about for decades. Climate change is not driving the disasters. And geologicial disturbances are now fairly predictable in severity, if not when they will actually occur.

and you can't deny their frequency and record-breaking severity.

Uh, yes, I can. We had frequent hurricanes in the 1940s and 1950s. And have had horrific earthquakes in the past.

What makes these events more catastrophic nowadays is the signficant increase in the number of people living in hazardous areas.

but even meteorologists and scientists are baffled by severe weather patterns, climactical changes and geological disturbances today, and you can't deny their frequency and record-breaking severity.

Actually I can. We've only developed the technology to track these disturbances at a detailed level (establishing a set of metrics to measure and compare hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, etc) and maintained accurate records within the last 100 years. 200 years ago, if an earthquake wiped out 50,000 people in the Mountaingoatistan, Farmer George in Virginia would never know about it. Now thanks to worldwide telecommunications, everyone knows everything happening everywhere within moments of it happening. A natural disaster that kills a couple thousand people today would have killed 10 times more in that region 200 years ago.

And you can't deny that today mankind has the power to destroy the world all by ourselves with warfare, which makes Biblical prophesy nothing to snicker at.

That I totally agree with. Our ability to destroy ourselves is unprecedented in history and that alone creeps me out.

BTW, I've read that book (Pessimists Guide to History) and it is fascinating. I recommend it (it's a good bathroom book).