It's the end of the world as he knows it

Who's the greatest scientist of all time?

How about Sir Isaac Newton?

Sir Isaac Newton was evidently a deeply religious Christian. I wonder what he would think of the whole evolution vs. creationism vs. intelligent design debate.

One of the things Newton believed is that the apocalypse is coming and he spent considerable time trying to figure out the date. He wrote that he did this not because he thought it was important to figure out the date but instead he wanted to,

"put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."

Newton did end up making a prediction about the end of the world. He wrote that the apocalypse will not happen before the year 2060. Someone tell Pat Robertson we've got at least 53 more years.